
Young Vienna (Jung-Wien) was a society of fin de siècle writers who met in Vienna's Café Griensteidl and other nearby coffeehouses in the late nineteenth century.

Peter Altenberg was a writer and poet from Vienna, Austria. He was key to the genesis of early modernism in the city.

Leopold Andrian, actually Leopold Freiherr Ferdinand von Andrian zu Werburg was an Austrian author, dramatist and diplomat.

Hermann Bahr was an Austrian writer, playwright, director, and critic.

Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.

Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

Felix Salten was an Austro-Hungarian author and literary critic in Vienna. His most famous work is Bambi, a Life in the Woods (1923).

Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.

Maria Friederike Cornelia "Frida" Strindberg was an Austrian writer and translator, who was closely associated with many important figures in 20th-century literature.