German literary critics

Caroline Schelling, née Michaelis, widowed Böhmer, divorced Schlegel (2 September 1763 – 7 September 1809), was a noted German intellectual.

Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 – July 7, 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist who was famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the 'Frankfurt School' of social research.

Theodor W. Adorno (/əˈdɔːrnoʊ/; German: [aˈdɔʀno]; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society.

Ernst Robert Curtius (/ˈkʊərtsiˌʊs/; April 14, 1886 – April 19, 1956) was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance language literary critic, best known for his 1948 study Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter, translated in English as European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages.

Adam Heinrich Müller (30 June 1779 – 17 January 1829; after 1827 Ritter von Nitterdorf) was a German publicist, literary critic, political economist, theorist of the state and forerunner of economic romanticism.

Hans Mayer (March 19, 1907 in Cologne – May 19, 2001 in Tübingen) was a German literary scholar.

Walter Haenisch (Dortmund 1906 - Butovo 1938) was a Marxist theoretician and the son of German SPD politician Konrad Haenisch.

Otto Brahm (born Otto Abrahamson on 5 February 1856 in Hamburg; died 28 November 1912 in Berlin) was a German drama and literary critic, theatre manager and director.

Hans Ulrich "Sepp" Gumbrecht is a literary theorist whose work spans philology, philosophy, literary and cultural history, and epistemologies of the everyday.

Peter Rühmkorf (Dortmund, 25 October 1929 – Roseburg, Schleswig-Holstein, 8 June 2008) was a German writer who significantly influenced German post-war literature.

Julius Leopold Klein (1810 - 2 August 1876) was a German writer of Jewish origin born at Miskolc, Hungary.

Werner Hamacher (German: [ˈhaːmaχɐ]; born 1948) is a German literary critic and theorist influenced by deconstruction.

Max Koch (22 December 1855 in Munich – 19 December 1931 in Breslau) was a German historian and literary critic.

Wilhelm Dilthey (German: [ˈdɪltaɪ]; 19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held G.

Ernst Friedrich Heilborn (1867–1942) was a German writer, critic and journalist.

Volker Hage (born 9 September 1949 in Hamburg) is a German journalist, author and literary critic.

Volker Weidermann (born 1969) is a German writer and literary critic.

Friedrich Ulfers (born 1934) is Professor of German at New York University.

Walter Arthur Berendsohn (10 September 1884, Hamburg – 30 January 1984, Stockholm) was a German literary scholar.

Luise Rinser (1911-2002) was a prolific German writer, best known for her novels and short stories.

Heinz Ludwig Arnold (29 March 1940 in Essen – 1 November 2011 in Göttingen) was a German literary journalist and publisher.

Dieter Borchmeyer (born 3 May 1941 in Essen) is a German literary critic.

Hermann Eris Busse (9 March 1891, Freiburg im Breisgau – 15 August 1947) was a German novelist and literary critic.

Josef Ettlinger (1869–1912) was a German literary historian, critic, journalist and translator.

Denis Scheck (born 15 December 1964) is a German literary critic and journalist.

Frederick J. Klaeber (born Friedrich J. Klaeber) (1 October 1863 – 4 October 1954) was a German philologist who was Professor of Old and Middle English at the University of Minnesota.

Anneli Ute Gabanyi (born October 18, 1942) is a Romanian-born German political scientist, literary critic, journalist, and philologist, especially known for her research on the society and culture of the Cold War period in Romania and the Romanian Revolution of 1989.

Annette Pehnt (born 25 July 1967 in Köln) is a German writer and literary critic.

Hans Sahl (born Hans Salomon in Dresden on 20 May 1902; died in Tübingen on 27 April 1993) was a poet, critic, and novelist who began during the Weimar Republic.

Georg Julius Leopold Engel (b 29 October 1866 in Greifswald; d. 19 October [1931 in Berlin ) was a successful German writer, dramatist and literary critic.

The brothers Heinrich and Julius Hart were German writers and literary critics who collaborated closely.

Steffen Martus (born Karlsruhe, 1968) is a German Literary scholar and Professor of Modern German Literature at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Ulrich Karger (3 February 1957 in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany) is an author and teacher of religion at a school for speech disabled children in Berlin.

Martin Lüdke (born April 9, 1943 in Apolda, Thuringia) is a German literary critic.

Michael Scheffel (born 27 February 1958, Frankfurt) is a professor for the history of modern German literature and more generally of Literary sciences at Wuppertal University.

Walter Höllerer (December 19, 1922 – May 20, 2003) was a German writer, literary critic and a literature graduate.

Walter Boehlich (16 September 1921 – 6 April 2006) was a German journalist, literary critic, literary editor and translator.

Roberto Simanowski (born 1963) is a German scholar of literature and media studies and editor of dichtung-digital, a journal for contributions on digital aesthetics, which he founded in 1999.

Andreas Huyssen (born 1942) is the Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1986.

William Kreiten (21 June 1847, in Gangelt near Aachen – 6 June 1902, at Kerkrade (Kirchrath) in Limburg) was a literary critic and poet.

Karl August Bleibtreu (January 13, 1859 – January 30, 1928) was a German writer who promoted naturalism in German literature.

Johann Heinrich Merck (11 April 1741 – 27 June 1791), German author and critic, was born at Darmstadt, a few days after the death of his father, a chemist.

Bernhard Diebold (born Bernhard Dreifus: 6 January 1886 - 9 August 1945) was a Swiss theatre critic and writer.

Michael Maar (born July 17, 1960 in Stuttgart) is a German literary scholar, germanist and author.

Karl Friedrich Elze (May 22, 1821, Dessau - January 21, 1889, Halle) was a German scholar and Shakespearian critic.

Johann Joachim Eschenburg (7 December 1743 – 29 February 1820) was a German critic and literary historian.

Monika Fludernik (born 1957), a native Austrian, is professor of English literature and culture at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany.

Eduard Friedrich Ferdinand Castle [kastle] (November 7, 1875, Vienna - June 8, 1959, Vienna) was an Austrian-German Germanist and literary historian (Literatur- & Theaterwissenschaftler).

Margarete Emilie Charlotte Steffin (21 March 1908, Rummelsburg, now part of Berlin – 4 June 1941, Moscow) was a German actress and writer, one of Bertold Brecht's closest collaborators, as well as a prolific translator from Russian and Scandinavian languages.

Theo Breuer (born 30 March 1956) is a German poet, essayist, editor, translator and publisher.

Anselm Haverkamp (born July 18, 1943) is a German-American professor of literature and philosophy.

Rudolf Gottschall (von Gottschall since 1877; 30 September 1823 – 21 March 1909) was a German poet, dramatist, literary critic and literary historian.

Martin Puchner is a literary critic and philosopher.

Christian Ludolf Wienbarg (25 December 1802 – 2 January 1872) was a German journalist and literary critic, one of the founders of the Young Germany movement during the Vormärz period.