List of authors banned in Nazi Germany
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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These authors are a selection from the prohibitions lists during the Nazi Third Reich and come from the following lists and others:
- List of damaging and undesirable writing, Liste des schädlichen und unerwünschten Schrifttums, December 31, 1938
- Jahreslisten 1939-1941. Unchanged new printing of the Leipzig edition, 1938-1941, Vaduz 1979
The official list was published by the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda. Authors, living and dead, were placed on the list because of Jewish descent, or because of pacifist or communist sympathies or suspicion thereof.
In May and June 1933, in the first year of the Nazi government, there were open book burnings. These book bans compose a part of the history of censorship and a subset of the list of banned books.
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- Otto Bauer
- Vicki Baum
- Johannes R. Becher
- Richard Beer-Hofmann
- Walter Benjamin
- Walter A. Berendsohn
- Ernst Bloch
- Felix Braun
- Josef Braunthal
- Bertolt Brecht
- Willi Bredel
- Hermann Broch
- Ferdinand Bruckner
D
E
F
- Lion Feuchtwanger
- Marieluise Fleißer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster
- Leonhard Frank
- Anna Freud
- Sigmund Freud
- Egon Friedell
- Salomo Friedlaender
G
H
- Ferdinand Hardekopf
- Jakob Haringer
- Jaroslav Hašek
- Walter Hasenclever
- Raoul Hausmann
- Max Herrmann-Neisse
- Franz Hessel
- Magnus Hirschfeld
- Jakob van Hoddis
- Ödön von Horvath
I
J
K
- Erich Kästner
- Franz Kafka
- Georg Kaiser
- Mascha Kaleko
- Alfred Kantorowicz
- Hermann Kantorowicz
- Karl Kautsky
- Hans Kelsen
- Alfred Kerr
- Hermann Kesten
- Irmgard Keun
- Klabund
- Alma J. Koenig
- Annette Kolb
- Gertrud Kolmar
- Paul Kornfeld
- Siegfried Kracauer
- Theodor Kramer
- Karl Kraus
- Adam Kuckhoff
L
- Else Lasker-Schüler
- Lenin
- Jack London
- Hubertus Prinz zu Löwenstein
- Ernst Lothar
- Emil Ludwig
- Rosa Luxemburg
M
- André Malraux
- Heinrich Mann
- Klaus Mann
- Thomas Mann
- Hans Marchwitza
- Ludwig Marcuse
- Karl Marx
- Walter Mehring
- Gustav Meyrink
- Erich Mühsam
- Robert Musil
N
O
P
R
- Fritz Reck-Malleczewen
- Erik Reger
- Gustav Regler
- Wilhelm Reich
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Karl Renner
- Joachim Ringelnatz
- Joseph Roth
S
- Nelly Sachs
- Felix Salten
- Rahel Sanzara
- Arno Schirokauer
- Arthur Schnitzler
- Alvin Schwartz
- Anna Seghers
- Walter Serner
- Ignazio Silone
- Wilhelm Speyer
- Rudolf Steiner
- Carl Sternheim
T
W
Z
Notes
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Alfred Adler - Hermann Adler - Max Adler - Raoul Auernheimer - Otto Bauer - Vicki Baum - Johannes R. Becher - Richard Beer-Hofmann - Walter Benjamin - Walter A. Berendsohn - Ernst Bloch - Felix Braun - Josef Braunthal - Bertolt Brecht - Willi Bredel - Hermann Broch - Ferdinand Bruckner - Alfred Döblin - John Dos Passos - Kasimir Edschmid - Albert Ehrenstein - Albert Einstein - Carl Einstein - Friedrich Engels - Lion Feuchtwanger - Marieluise Fleißer - Wilhelm Friedrich Foerster - Leonhard Frank - Anna Freud - Sigmund Freud - Egon Friedell - Salomo Friedlaender - André Gide - Claire Goll - Oskar Maria Graf - George Grosz - Ferdinand Hardekopf - Jakob Haringer - Jaroslav Hašek - Walter Hasenclever - Raoul Hausmann - Max Herrmann-Neisse - Franz Hessel - Magnus Hirschfeld - Jakob van Hoddis - Ödön von Horvath - Vera Inber - Hans Henny Jahnn - Georg Jellinek - Franz Jung - Erich Kästner - Franz Kafka - Georg Kaiser - Mascha Kaleko - Alfred Kantorowicz - Karl Kautsky - Hans Kelsen - Alfred Kerr - Hermann Kesten - Irmgard Keun - Klabund - Alma J. Koenig - Annette Kolb - Gertrud Kolmar - Paul Kornfeld - Siegfried Kracauer - Theodor Kramer - Karl Kraus - Adam Kuckhoff - Else Lasker-Schüler - Lenin - Hubertus Prinz zu Löwenstein - Ernst Lothar - Emil Ludwig - Rosa Luxemburg - André Malraux - Heinrich Mann - Klaus Mann - Thomas Mann - Hans Marchwitza - Ludwig Marcuse - Karl Marx - Walter Mehring - Gustav Meyrink - Erich Mühsam - Robert Musil - Alfred Neumann - Robert Neumann - Carl von Ossietzky - Karl Otten - Ernst Ottwalt - Hertha Pauli - Kurt Pinthus - Adelheid Popp - Fritz Reck-Malleczewen - Erik Reger - Gustav Regler - Wilhelm Reich - Erich Maria Remarque - Karl Renner - Joachim Ringelnatz - Joseph Roth - Nelly Sachs - Felix Salten - Rahel Sanzara - Arno Schirokauer - Arthur Schnitzler - Anna Seghers - Walter Serner - Ignazio Silone - Wilhelm Speyer - Rudolf Steiner - Carl Sternheim - Adrienne Thomas - Ernst Toller - Friedrich Torberg - B. Traven - Leon Trotsky - Karl Tschuppik - Kurt Tucholsky - Jakob Wassermann - Armin T. Wegner - Ernst Weiß - Franz Werfel - Eugen Gottlob Winkler - Friedrich Wolf - Paul Zech - Carl Zuckmayer - Arnold Zweig - Stefan Zweig
List of banned authors during the Third Reich