Helmut Hauptmann (born 12 March 1928) is a German writer who was mainly active in the then East Germany.
Helmut Hauptmann grew up in a working-class family in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
Since the early 1950s, he has worked as a literary editor, journalist, and writer in Berlin.
Hauptmann writes narrative works that reflect the ideological optimism of early East Germany as well as travel journals which captured the experience of the writer in the Eastern Bloc.
Hauptmann was a member of the Schriftstellerverband der DDR since 1956 and the P.E.N.-Zentrum of East Germany since 1972.