20th-century German women writers

Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)

Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in an Amsterdam attic from 1942 until their arrest in 1944.

German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)

German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)

Jewish German poet and playwright (1891-1970)

Communist activist, and advocate for women's rights (1857–1933)

Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)

German author (born 1958)

German-American sex therapist

German politician and activist (1947-1992)

German photographer, best known for her reporting on the Spanish Civil War (1910–1937)

German actress (1914–1986)

German opera director and writer (born 1967)

Jewish poet from the Bukowina writing in German and English (1901-1988)

German screenwriter (1888–1954)

German journalist, publisher, and feminist

Sorbian poet (1893–1975)

Ukrainian poet, writer and painter (born 1931)

Crown Princess of Prussia (1886-1954)

German writer of novels, poems and essays (1876-1971)

Argentine writer

German political scientist (1916–2010)

German jurist, actress, writer, editor, and activist (1857–1943)

German feminist, writer, and opinion journalist (1831–1919)

German writer (1909-1989)

German author (1901–1974)

German journalist (1909–2002)

German writer and translator (1940–2019)

German writer (1933–1990)

German feminist, pacifist and gender activist (1869–1943)

wife of American football player O. J. Simpson (1959–1994)

German writer (1933–1973)

German writer (1940-2019)

Austrian-German historian (1940–2016)

German social reformer (1872–1948)

Sorbian translator, poet and writer

German sociologist (1931–2023)

German author (1954–2023)

German writer and painter (1916–1970)

German Holocaust denier

German writer

sorbian writer

Turkish-German writer (born 1946)

German children's illustrator and writer (1955-2025)

German playwright and author (born 1964)

author of a diary, discovered in 2004

German-Hungarian novelist, playwright and sculptor (1888-1944)

German writer and holocaust victim (1894–1943)

German writer (1870-1967)

children's illustrator and writer, German Jewish American (1906–1996)

German actress, politician and author (1927-2020)

Romanian-born German-American feminist theologian

German author

Swiss writer

German political writer, translator, actress, and journalist (1904–1994)

German author (1900-1995)

German film historian (1896-1983)

German writer

Welsh-German Egyptologist (1910–1998)

German writer (1923-1986)