German Poetry

Explore german-language poems and share them with your friends and family

With OperationMedia’s german poetry app you gain access to over 7500 poems by more than 240 different authors.

Our library is updated daily and you can easily comb through it by using a full-text search. You may also explore new poems in a breeze with the random poem feature.

Save your favorite poems and read them offline, without internet connection required.

A daily updated view shows which poets were born or died on the current date, as well as the latest poems and authors added.

Feature overview:

- Full-Text Search

- Poem of the day

- Random poem

- Save favorites offline

- A list of all available poems and poets

- Author biographies

- Share poems by mail, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp etc.

- Nightmode

- German and English user interface

Features poetry by:

- Rainer Maria Rilke

- Friederike Kempner

- William Shakespeare

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

- Clemens Brentano

- Otto Julius Bierbaum

- Karl May

- Stefan George

- Nikolaus Lenau

- Hermann Löns

- Emanuel Geibel

- Ludwig Uhland

- Karl Henckell

- Joseph von Eichendorff

- Ludwig Tieck

- Adolf Friedrich von Schack

- Achim von Arnim

- Else Lasker-Schüler

- Theodor Fontane

- Joachim Ringelnatz

- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

- Heinrich Heine

- Friedrich Schiller

- Adelbert von Chamisso

- Wilhelm Busch

- Ludwig Thoma

- Ada Christen

- Max Dauthendey

- Georg Heym

- Alfred Lichtenstein

- Erich Mühsam

- Georg Trakl

- Gustav Schwab

- Christian Felix Weiße

- Louise Otto-Peters

- Edgar Allan Poe

- Paul Verlaine

- Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel

- Otto Ernst

- Christian Morgenstern

- Felix Dahn

- Theodor Storm

- Charlotte von Ahlefeld

- Frank Wedekind

- Paul Boldt

- Johann Gottfried Herder

- Otfried Krzyzanowski

- Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

- Heinrich von Kleist

- Georg Weerth

- Carl Streckfuß

- Wilhelm Müller

- Kurt Tucholsky

- Klabund

- Hugo Ball

- Louise Aston

- Friederike Brun

- Novalis

- Paula Dehmel

- Charles Baudelaire

- Susanne von Bandemer

- Ludwig Rubiner

- Friedrich Nietzsche

- Richard Dehmel

- Karl Kraus

- Justinus Kerner

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

- Ferdinand Freiligrath

- Gottfried August Bürger

- Hugo von Hofmannsthal

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

- Johann Baptist von Alxinger

- Rudolf Baumbach

- Matthias Claudius

- Hermann von Gilm

- Friedrich Haug

- Richard von Volkmann

- Max Herrmann-Neiße

- Maximilian Bern

- Ernst Blass

- Karl Ludwig von Woltmann

- Salomon Gessner

- Karl Philipp Conz

- Franz Grillparzer

- Paul Haller

- Max Hoffmann

- Ludwig Pfau

- Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten

- Amalie von Imhoff

- Friedrich von Hindersin

- Friedrich Singer

- Felix Dörmann

- Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Meyer

- Otto Hausmann

- Martin Boelitz

- Maria Janitschek

- Martin Opitz

- Detlev von Liliencron

- Alice Berend

- Sophie Mereau

...and more than 130 other authors.

We are constantly adding new features to the German poetry app and we’re looking forward to your feedback and ideas for improvements.