(1871–1940) sculptor Ludwig Levy, architect Max Liebermann, painter Wilhelm Löwith, artist Peter Max, pop artist Ludwig Meidner, painter Erich Mendelsohn, architect Helmut Newton, photographer (Jewish father) Felix Nussbaum, painter Meret Oppenheim, surrealist Erwin Panofsky, art historian Martin Erich Philipp, artist Hans Schleger, designer Charlotte Salomon, artist Erich Salomon, news photographer Erna Weill, sculptor Victor Weisz, Vicky, cartoonist Other Josef Ganz, car designer Siegfried Marcus, car designer Edmund Rumpler, Austro-German car designer Jacqueline Van Maarsen, author and best friend of diarist Anne Frank Hanneli Goslar, friend of diarist Anne Frank and holocaust survivor Sanne Ledermann, friend of diarist Anne frank and holocaust victim Writers Erich Auerbach, literature critic Berthold Auerbach, author and poet Julius Bab, dramatist and theater critic Jurek Becker, writer Maxim Biller, writer Ludwig Börne, satirist Otto Brahm, literary critic Henryk Broder, journalist Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), literary critic and philosopher Emil Carlebach, writer, dissident Joseph Derenbourg, orientalist, father of Hartwig Derenbourg Hilde Domin, poet Lion Feuchtwanger, novelist Hubert Fichte, author (Jewish father) Anne Frank, diarist Karen Gershon (1923–1993), poet Friedrich Gundolf, literary man Glückel of Hameln, 18th-century Yiddish diarist Maximilian Harden, journalist Heinrich Heine, poet (converted to Protestantism for job prospects) Stefan Heym, novelist, politician Wolfgang Hildesheimer Edgar Hilsenrath, novelist Daniel Hoffmann, writer and philologist (German Studies) Barbara Honigmann, writer Heinrich Eduard Jacob, writer and journalist Siegfried Jacobsohn, journalist and theater critic Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, novelist and screenwriter Wladimir Kaminer, short story writer Judith Kerr, children's writer Victor Klemperer, writer Else Lasker-Schüler, writer, poet and artist (converted to Protestantism for job prospects) Claire Loewenfeld, writer and herbalist Hugo Lubliner, dramatist. Emil Ludwig, writer Gila Lustiger, author Erika Mann, writer, actress (Jewish mother) Klaus Mann, writer (Jewish mother) Monika Mann, writer (Jewish mother) Liselotte Marshall, novelist Julius Mosen, born Moses Erich Mühsam, anarchist poet Henning Pawel, children's author, writer Solomon Perel, author Marcel Reich-Ranicki, literary critic H. A. Rey and Margret Rey, creators of Curious George Renate Rubinstein (Jewish father) Nelly Sachs, poet, Nobel Prize (1966) Anna Seghers, novelist Oskar Seidlin, writer Rafael Seligmann, writer Süßkind von Trimberg, medieval writer, minnesinger Kurt Tucholsky, writer (converted to Protestantism) Samuel Ullman, poet Rahel Varnhagen, writer and saloniste (converted to Christianity) Moritz Callmann Wahl Jakob Wassermann, novelist Trude Weiss-Rosmarin Jeanette Wohl Victoria Wolff (1903–1992), German born American writer and screenwriter Friedrich Wolf, writer, physician Carl Zuckmayer, playwright (Jewish mother) Arnold Zweig, writer Stefan Zweig, novelist, playwright and journalist, best known for his autobiographies