German lesbian writers

Erika Julia Hedwig Mann (9 November 1905 – 27 August 1969) was a German actress and writer, daughter of the novelist Thomas Mann.

Angelina Maccarone is a German film director and writer.

Anita Augspurg (22 September 1857 Verden an der Aller – 20 December 1943 Zürich) was a German jurist, actress, writer, activist of the radical feminist movement and a pacifist.

Helene Hegemann (born 19 February 1992 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German writer, director, and actress. As a young writer her work was highly praised, but her first novel, Axolotl Roadkill, sparked a plagiarism controversy. The book has since been translated in various languages.

Sybille Bedford, OBE (16 March 1911 – 17 February 2006) was a German-born English writer of non-fiction and semi-autobiographical fiction books. She was a recipient of the Golden PEN Award.

Monika Treut (born April 6, 1954, in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German lesbian filmmaker. She attended high school at an all-girls state school. She studied German and Political Science at university. She wrote her PhD thesis about The Cruel Woman: Female Images in the Writing of Marquis de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. After passing the state examination she graduated in 1978.

Eugenie Schumann (1 December 1851 – 25 September 1938) was a German pianist and author.

Traude Bührmann (born 26 November 1942, in Essen) is a German writer, journalist, photographer and translator.

Verena Stefan (October 3, 1947 – November 29, 2017) was a Swiss-born feminist and writer living in Germany, later in Canada.

Vera Lachmann (June 23, 1904–1985) was a German poet, classicist and educator. After founding a school for Jewish children in Nazi Germany, she emigrated to the United States in 1939 and established Camp Catawba, a summer camp for boys.