WJakob Bothe, better known by his pen name Jakob Arjouni, was a German author. He received the 1992 German Crime Fiction Prize for One Man, One Murder.
WDietmar Dath is a German author, journalist and translator.
WHans (Joachim) Dominik was a German science fiction and non-fiction author, science journalist and engineer.
WWalter Ernsting was a German science fiction and fantasy author who mainly published under the pseudonym Clark Darlton. He grew up in Koblenz and was drafted into the German Wehrmacht shortly after the beginning of World War II. He served in an intelligence unit in Norway and on the Eastern Front where he was captured and spent several years as a prisoner of war in Siberia.
WAndreas Eschbach is a German writer, primarily of science fiction. His stories that are not clearly in the SF genre usually feature elements of the fantastic.
WOtto Willi Gail was a German science journalist and author.
WGisbert Haefs is a German writer in several genres and translator. He has written historical novels such as Alexander won both the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis and Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis in science fiction and placed at the Deutscher Krimi Preis for crime fiction. As a translator he worked on a much criticized effort at translating works of Jorge Luis Borges into German.
WThea Gabriele von Harbou was a German screenwriter, novelist, film director, and actress. She is remembered as the screenwriter of the science fiction film classic Metropolis (1927) and the story on which it was based. Harbou collaborated as a screenwriter with film director Fritz Lang, her husband, during the period of transition from silent to sound films.
WMarkus Heitz is a German fantasy, horror and science fiction author best known for his Dwarves series of novels.
WWolfgang Hohlbein is a German writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction who lives near Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia. His wife, Heike Hohlbein, is also a writer and often works with her husband. With more than 200 published books and more than 43 million sold copies he is considered among the most successful German writers in the fantasy genre.
WWolfgang Jeschke was a German science fiction author and editor at Heyne Verlag. In 1987, he won the Harrison Award for international achievements in science fiction.
WBernhard Kellermann was a German author and poet.
WGünther Krupkat was a German fiction writer, known as one of the leading science fiction writers of East Germany.
WGünter Kunert was a German writer. Based in East Berlin, he published poetry from 1947, supported by Bertold Brecht. When he signed a petition against the deprivation of the citizenship of Wolf Biermann in 1976, he lost his SED membership, and moved to the West two years later. He is regarded as a versatile German writer who wrote short stories, essays, autobiographical works, film scripts and novels. He received international honorary doctorates and awards.
WKurd Lasswitz was a German author, scientist, and philosopher. He has been called "the father of German science fiction". He sometimes used the pseudonym Velatus.
WKurt Mahr was German author and one of the first authors of the series Perry-Rhodan, the largest Science fiction series of the world.
WAlexander Moszkowski was a German satirist, writer and philosopher of Polish-Jewish descent. He was the brother of the composer and pianist Moritz Moszkowski.
WGudrun Pausewang, less commonly known by her married name, Gudrun Wilcke, was a German author of children's and young adult literature. She was known for books such as The Last Children of Schewenborn and Die Wolke which were made part of German school canons. Among her primary topics were work for peace and protection of the environment, namely warning of the dangers of nuclear energy. Her books have been translated into English and received international recognition and awards.
WJesco Hans Heinrich Max Freiherr von Puttkamer was a German-American aerospace engineer, senior manager at NASA, and a pulp science fiction writer.
WWalther Rathenau was a German industrialist, writer and liberal politician.
WFrank Schätzing, is a German writer, mostly known for his best-selling science fiction novel The Swarm (2004).
WPaul Karl Wilhelm Scheerbart was a German author of speculative fiction literature and drawings. He was also published under the pseudonym Kuno Küfer and is best known for the book Glasarchitektur (1914).