WAmalie Marie Friederike Auguste, Princess of Saxony, full name Maria Amalia Friederike Augusta Karolina Ludovica Josepha Aloysia Anna Nepomucena Philippina Vincentia Franziska de Paula Franziska de Chantal, was a German composer writing under the pen name A. Serena, and a dramatist under the name Amalie Heiter. She was the daughter of Prince Maximilian of Saxony and Princess Carolina of Parma.
WSibylle Berg is a Swiss author and playwright. She writes novels, essays, short fiction, plays, radio plays, and columns.
WElsa Bernstein was an Austrian-German writer and dramatist of Jewish descent.
WCharlotte Birch-Pfeiffer was a German actress, writer, director of the Stadttheater in Zürich for six years, and author of over 100 plays and libretto.
WAnne Birk was a German author.
WHelmina von Chézy, née Wilhelmine Christiane von Klencke, was a German journalist, poet and playwright. She is known for writing the libretto for Carl Maria von Weber's opera Euryanthe (1823) and the play Rosamunde, for which Franz Schubert composed incidental music.
WThea Dorn is a German writer of crime fiction and TV host. She lives and works in Berlin.
WChristel Hoffmann is a German theater scholar, dramaturge and pedagogue.
WBorn in Gandersheim to Saxon nobles Hrotsvitha was a German secular canoness, who wrote dramas and poems during the rule of the Ottonian dynasty. Hrotsvitha lived at Gandersheim Abbey. She is considered the first female writer from the German Lands, the first female historian, the first person since antiquity to write dramas in the Latin West, and the first female poetess in Germany.
WKaren Köhler is a German writer, playwright and actor.
WUrsula Krechel is an award-winning German writer.
WElse Lasker-Schüler was a German-Jewish poet and playwright famous for her bohemian lifestyle in Berlin and her unique poetic genius. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement. Lasker-Schüler fled Nazi Germany and lived out the rest of her life in Jerusalem.
WDea Loher is a German playwright and author.
WJudith Malina was a German-born American theater and film actress, writer and director. With her husband, Julian Beck, Malina co-founded The Living Theatre, a radical political theatre troupe that rose to prominence in New York City and Paris during the 1950s and 60s. The Living Theatre and its founders were the subject of the 1983 documentary Signals Through The Flames.
WLaura Katharina Marholm (1854–1928) was a Baltic-German writer of literary criticism, biographies about women, and novels. The main characters in her novels were women who felt fulfilled in marriage. Marholm was a New Woman feminist that wrote about feminist issues. Due to some of her beliefs, some other feminists did not consider Marholm to be among them. She believed that literature could be used to help gender relations. Some of Marholm's works were part of "feminist literary criticism" known as gynocriticism, 70 years before the term was coined, with much of that work being focused on Nordic women authors.
WSudabeh Mohafez is a German author.
WMargareth "Maxi" Obexer is a German-Italian writer originally from the South Tyrol. She is a prolific freelance author of theatre works, novels, radio dramas, essays and other narrative pieces.
WSasha Marianna Salzmann is a German playwright, essayist, theatre curator and novelist. She is writer in residence at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin where she was artistic director of the studio theatre, Studio Я, from 2013 to 2015.
WMargarete Emilie Charlotte Steffin was a German actress and writer, one of Bertold Brecht's closest collaborators, as well as a prolific translator from Russian and Scandinavian languages.
WCatharine Stolberg (1751–1832), was a Danish-German countess and writer. She published novels and plays, and was also known for her biography and her preserved correspondence.
WAlissa Walser is a German writer and artist. She was born in Friedrichshafen. Her father is the well-known German writer Martin Walser. She is known for her short stories, plays and novels. She has won a number of German literary prizes. Mesmerized, her first novel, has been translated into English by Jamie Bulloch.
WChrista Winsloe, formerly Baroness Christa Hatvany de Hatvan, was a German-Hungarian novelist, playwright and sculptor, best known for her play Gestern und heute, filmed in 1931 as Mädchen in Uniform and the 1958 remake.