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Here's all 119 authors with nationality analphabetically ordered:

Novalis (1772-1801) - who greatly influenced later Romantic thought.
Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) - of Federal Republic of West Germany.
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) - German poli sci
Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - German music
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic era.
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) - German-born writer
Theobald Theodor von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856-1921) - of Germany 1909-1917
Jeanette Biedermann (1981-)
Wolf Biermann (1936-)
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) - of the German Empire.
Jacob Boehme (1575-1624)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) - His involvement in a plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler led to his imprisonment and execution.
Martin Bormann (1900-1945) - one of Adolf Hitler's closest lieutenants.
Max Born (1882-1970) - Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954.
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) - of the Romantic period who wrote symphonies, concertos, chamber music, piano works, choral compositions and more than 200 songs.
Willy Brandt (1913-1992)
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) - German writer
Hermann Broch (1886-1951) - German writer
Martin Buber (1878-1965) - Master of German prose style.
Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908)
Matthias Claudius (1740-1815)
Richard Dehmel (1863-1920) - German writer
Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) - German movie actor
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962)
Manfred Eigen (1927-) -
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.
Paul Eipper (1891-1964)
Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995) - whose images, many of them for Life magazine, established him as one of the first and most important photojournalists.
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) - German philosopher
Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977) - (1963-66).
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872)
Immanuel Hermass von Fichte
Ernst Fischer (1918-)
Anne Frank (1929-1945) - of a diary of her family's two years in hiding during World War II.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Erich Fromm (1900-1980) - writer
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945)
Joseph Paul Goebbels (1897-1945)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) - German writer
Curt Goetz (1888-1960)
Steffi Graf (1969-)
Gunter Grass (1927-) - German writer
Walter Gropius (1883-1969) - German architect
Uta Hagen (1919-2004) - German actor
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863)
Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) - counted among the main exponents of 20th century Existentialism.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) - German writer
Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976) - German physicist
Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803)
Werner Herzog (1942-) - German? movie director
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) - Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) - German pol
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) - leader of the Nazi party.
Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843)
Heinrich Hoffman (1809-1894)
Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) - one of the most influential art teachers of the 20th century.
Paul Heinrich Dietrich von Holbach (1723-1789) - German philosopher
Karen Horney (1885-1952) - who departed from some of the basic principles of Sigmund Freud in suggesting an environmental and social basis for the personality and its disorders.
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) - of visionary fiction.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) - one of the foremost thinkers of the Enlightenment.
Paul Keller (1873-1932)
Petra Kelly (1949-1992) - of the German Green Party and peace activist.
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) - German astronomer
Klaus Kinski (1926-1991) - who had a stage and film career of more than 40 years.
Heidi Klum (1973-)
Hildegard Knef (1925-2002) - German actor singer
Robert Koch (1843-1910)
Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945) - German artist
Diane Kruger (1976-)
G. Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) - on philosophy and aesthetics.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) - German writer
Justus von Liebig (1803-1873)
Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919)
Frederick Loewe (1904-1988) - and collaborator with Alan Jay Lerner on a series of hit musical plays.
Friedrich von Logau (1604-1655)
Emil Ludwig (1881-1948)
Ernst Mach (1838-1916) - German scientist
Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) - and revolutionary.
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) - .
Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914)
Helmut Newton (1920-2004) - Germ.-Austra photographer
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
Lilli Palmer (1914-1986)
Fritz Perls (1893-1970) - developed and popularized Gestalt therapy.
Max Planck (1858-1947) - German Physicist
Max Reger (1873-1916) - German composer
Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970)
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) - and humorist.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) - German writer
Philip Rosenthal (1917-)
Friedrich von Schelling (1775-1854)
Claudia Schiffer (1970-)
Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) - German writer
August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1767-1845)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) - German philosopher
E. F. Schumacher (1911-1977) - of the Intermediate Technology Development Group (1966).
Robert A. Schumann (1810-1856)
Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) - 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.
Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) - of history.
Charles P. Steinmetz (1865-1923)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) - German composer
Paul Tillich (1886-1965) - whose discussions of God and faith illuminated and bound together the realms of traditional Christianity and modern culture.
Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)
Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829)
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) - German composer
Wim Wenders (1945-) - German director
Franz Werfel (1890-1945)
Bruce Willis (1955-)
Katarina Witt (1965-)
Pope Benedict XVI (1927-)

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