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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Alison Croggon (born 1962)
poet, librettist
Émile Zola (1840-1902)
political reporter, art critic, essayist, playwright, literary critic, theatre critic, journalist, poet, photographer, librettist
Martin Buber (1878-1965)
philosopher, existentialist, translator, pedagogue, literary editor, Bible translator, educator, zionist, theologian, librettist
- University of Vienna, Humboldt University of Berlin
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
poet, literary historian, playwright, librettist, literary critic, essayist, composer, translator
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937)
playwright, journalist, librettist
- University of Edinburgh, The Glasgow Academy
Vítězslav Nezval (1900-1958)
linguist, poet, playwright, translator, visual artist, opinion journalist, dramaturge, librettist
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (born 1973)
playwright, comics artist, television producer, theatrical producer, executive producer, actor, librettist, showrunner
- Georgetown University, Yale School of Drama