Daniela Dahn (born 9 October 1949, in Berlin) is a German writer, journalist and essayist.

[3] The Party of Democratic Socialism controversially introduced Dahn as one of their two candidates for the office of Constitutional Court judge in Brandenburg, in 1998.

Dahn serves on the Executive Board of the writers' association PEN and lectures internationally.

[4] Dahn is also on the Advisory Board of the Humanist Union, and has held the post of Writer in Residence at Sunderland University in the UK.

Along with Christa Wolf, with whom she has collaborated in the past, Dahn was seen as a possible choice by Die Linke as their candidate for President of Germany in the 2009 presidential election.