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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist. His works include plays, poetry ...
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Harald G. Petersson (16 October 1904 – 8 July 1977) was a German screenwriter. He wrote for 36 films between 1934 and 1967. He was born in Weimar, Germany and died in West Berlin, West Germany.
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Lothar-Günther Buchheim ( ) (February 6, 1918 – February 22, 2007) was a German author and painter. He is best known for his 1973 novel The Boat (Das Boot), which became an international bestseller ...
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Wolfgang Hohlbein (born 15 August 1953 in Weimar, Bezirk Erfurt) is a German writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction who lives near Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia. His wife, Heike Hohlbein ...
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Friedrich Karl Alfred Schulze (20 April 1881 – 28 August 1960) was a German historian and director of the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig [de].
German actress, singer, and playwright (1840-1908)
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Auguste Götze (or Goetze) (24 February 1840 – 29 April 1908) was a German classical singer, actress, playwright, and a distinguished voice teacher. Götze was born in Weimar where she initially trained ...
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Jörg Jarnut (1 March 1942 – 6 March 2023) was a German historian who was Chair of Medieval History at the University of Paderborn from 1983 to 2007.
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Ulrike Liedtke (née Nehrdich, 17 November 1958) is a German musicologist and politician (SPD). From 1991 to 2014 she was founding director of the Musikakademie Rheinsberg. Since 2014 she has been a member ...
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Alexander "Sascha" Anderson (born 24 August 1953) is a German writer and artist who was an influential figure in the alternative scene in pre-unification East Berlin in the 1980s. Anderson was nicknamed ...
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Burkhard Gotthelf Struve (26 May 1671 - 25 May 1738) was a scholarly German librarian who became a polymath-historian based, for most of his academic career, at the University of Jena.
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Hilde Purwin (born Hildegard Burkhardt: 16 September 1919 – 29 March 2010) was a German journalist. She was exceptionally talented as a linguist and had an unusually powerful memory.
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Helmut Roewer (born c. 1950) is a German lawyer and author. He served between 1994 and 2000 as president of the regional office for protection of the constitution in Thuringia ("Thüringer Landesamtes ...
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Luise Adelaide Lavinia Schopenhauer, known as Adele Schopenhauer (12 July 1797 – 25 August 1849), was a German author. She was the sister of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and daughter of author ...
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Salomon (also Salomo) Franck, 6 March 1659 – 11 July 1725), was a German lawyer, scientist, and poet. Franck was working at Weimar at the same time as the composer Johann Sebastian Bach and he was the ...