This page records individual contributions and services to German-language literature and culture.
322nd Rifle Division of the Soviet Union, liberators of Auschwitz concentration camp, January 1945
Pina Bausch, dancer and choreographer (1940-2009)
Anthea Bell, translator (1936-2018)
Helmut Berger, actor (1944-2023)
Ruth Berghaus, choreographer and theatre director (1927-1996)
Anil Bhatti, scholar (1944-2023)
Jethro Bithell, scholar (1878-1962) [institutional subscription required]
Mary Burchell, righteous among the nations (1904-1986)
Ernst Busch, singer and actor (1900-1980)
Eliza Marian (Elsie) Butler, scholar and teacher (1885-1959)
Françoise Cactus, singer (1964-2021)
Martin Chalmers, translator (1948-2014)
Ralf Dahrendorf, sociologist (1929-2009)
Paul Dessau, composer (1894-1979)
Marlene Dietrich, actress and singer (1901-1992)
Osman Durrani, scholar and teacher (1945-2023)
Cyril W. Edwards, translator and scholar (1947-2019)
Hanns Eisler, composer (1898-1962)
Max Ernst, artist (1891-1976)
Barker Fairley, painter, scholar and teacher (1887-1986)
Harun Farocki, film director (1944-2014)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, film director (1945-1982)
Helen Fehervary, scholar and teacher (1942-2023)
Leonard William Forster, scholar (1913-1997)
Anne Frank, diarist and writer (1929-1945)
Valeska Gert, dancer (1892-1978)
Jane Haining, righteous among the nations (1897-1944)
Michael Hamburger, poet and translator (1924-2007)
John Heartfield, photomonteur (1891-1968)
Erich Heller, scholar (1911-1990)
Wieland Herzfelde, publisher (1896-1988)
Hannah Höch, photomonteur (1889-1978)
Hilde Holger, dancer (1905-2001)
R. J. Hollingdale, translator (1930-2001)
Nicholas Jacobs, publisher and writer (1939-2024)
Charlotte Jolles, scholar (1909-2003)
Wassily Kandinsky, artist (1886-1944)
Paul Klee, artist (1879-1940)
Helmut Koenigsberger, historian (1918-2014)
Eva Kolinsky, scholar (1940-2005)
Käthe Kollwitz, artist (1867-1945)
Fritz Lang, film director (1890-1976)
Lotte Lenya, singer and actress (1898-1981)
Tom Leonard, poet and translator of Brecht (1944-2018)
Barbara Lester, scholar and teacher (d. 2019)
Rodney Livingstone, translator and teacher (1934-2023)
Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, translator (1876/77-1963)
Timothy McFarland, scholar and teacher (d. 2013)
Christopher Middleton, poet and translator (1926-2015)
David Neal Miller z"l, scholar and teacher (1946-2018)
Paula Modersohn-Becker, artist (1876-1907)
Wolfgang Mommsen, historian (1930-2004)
Ulrich Mühe, actor (1953-2007)
Gabriele Münter, artist (1877-1962)
Edwin Muir, poet and translator (1887-1959)
Willa Muir, novelist and translator (1890-1970)
Hugh Barr (Barry) Nisbet, scholar and teacher (1940-2021)
Roy Pascal, scholar and teacher (1904-1980)
Malcolm Pasley, scholar and teacher (1926-2004)
Siegbert Prawer, scholar and teacher (1925-2012)
Marcel Reich-Ranicki, critic (1920-2013)
John George Robertson, scholar (1867-1933)
Edward Said, intellectual (1935-2003)
Jeffrey L. Sammons, scholar and teacher (1936-2021)
Georg Sauerwein, polyglot, poet, pacifist (1831-1904)
Ekkehard Schall, actor (1930-2005)
Christoph Schlingensief, film director (1960-2010)
Hans Scholl, anti-war campaigner (1918-1943)
Sophie Scholl, anti-war campaigner (1921-1943)
Oskar Seidlin, scholar (1911-1984)
Edith Simon, artist (1917-2003)
Peter Norman Skrine, scholar (1935-2017)
Germaine de Staël, author (1766-1817)
J. P. Stern, scholar and teacher (1920-1991)
Josef von Sternberg, film director (1894-1969)
Peter Suhrkamp, publisher (1891-1959)
Edward Timms, scholar and teacher (1937-2018)
Siegfried Unseld, publisher (1924-2002)
Anthony Vivis, translator (1943-2013)
Ian Wallace, scholar and founder of German Monitor (1942-2021)
Hans-Ulrich Wehler, historian (1931-2014)
Helene Weigel, actress and theatre director (1900-1971)
Kurt Weill, composer (1900-1950)
Manfred Wekwerth, theatre director (1929-2014)
Marianne Werefkin, painter (1860-1938)
John James White, scholar and teacher (d. 2015)
Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter (1908-2005)
Mary Wigman, dancer and choreographer (1886-1973)
Samuel P. Willcocks, translator (1973-2015)
John Willett, translator of Brecht and journalist (1917-2002)
Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson, scholar and teacher (d. 2001) [institutional subscription required]
Nicholas Winton, righteous among the nations (1909-2015)
W. E. (Gar) Yates, scholar and teacher (1938-2021) [institutional subscription required]
W. E. (Bill) Yuill, scholar and translator (1921-1997) [institutional subscription required]
Peter Zadek, theatre director (1926-2009)
Theodore Ziolkowski, scholar and teacher (1932-2020)
Harry Zohn, translator and scholar (1923-2001) [Pam Saur, 'In Memoriam: Harry Zohn (Nov. 21, 1923–June 3, 2001)', on JSTOR, institutional subscription required]