Wohmann was born in Darmstadt. She attended the Nordseepädagogium on the island Langeoog as a boarding school. She studied at Frankfurt am Main from 1951 to 1953. She then worked as a teacher at her former school to Langeoog, at a community college, and a business school. In 1953, she married Reiner Wohmann. She lived as a freelance writer in Darmstadt since 1956.^{[citation needed]} Wohmann died on June 23, 2015, after struggling for a long time with serious illness in the place of her birth, Darmstadt.^[3]

Wohmann authored short stories, novels, poems, radio plays, television plays, and essays. She attended meetings of the Group 47. She was a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts since 1975, and the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt since 1980. She was a member of the PEN Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1960 to 1988.

• Jetzt und Nie, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1958
• Abschied für länger, Walter, Olten/Freiburg im Breisgau, 1965
• Ernste Absicht, Luchterhand Verlag, Berlin/Neuwied, 1970
• Paulinchen war allein zu Haus, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1974
• Schönes Gehege, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1975
• Ausflug mit der Mutter, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1976
• Frühherbst in Badenweiler, Luchterhand, Darmstadt, 1978
• Ach wie gut daß niemand weiß, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1980
• Das Glücksspiel, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1981
• Der Flötenton, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1987
• Bitte nicht sterben, Piper, München, 1993
• Aber das war noch nicht das Schlimmste, Piper, München, 1995
• Das Handicap, Piper, München, 1996
• Das Hallenbad, Piper, München, 2000
• Abschied von der Schwester, Pendo, Zürich/München, 2001
• Schön und gut, Piper, München, 2002
• Hol mich einfach ab, Piper, München, 2003

Works in English edit

• Selected Translations of Gabriele Wohmann, Steven Walter Eau Claire, University of Iowa, 1984
• A Sea Resort, Translator Steven W. Eau Claire, The Journal of Literary Translation, Volume XVI, Spring 1986 ISSN 0093-9307
• The Piano Lesson, Translator Steven W. Eau Claire, The Amherst Review, Volume XIV, 1986
• A Party in the Country, Translator Steve Eau Claire, The Antioch Review, Volume 45, Number 3, Summer 1987 ISSN 0003-5769
• The cherry tree, Translator Jeanne Willson, Dimension, 1994, ISBN 978-0-911173-05-5
• Amos Leslie Willson, ed. (1996). "An Irresistible Man". Contemporary German fiction. Continuum International. ISBN 978-0-8264-0740-5.

• "So spannend ist das Leben nicht", Berliner Zeitung, Benoît Pivert, 18 May 2002
• Günter Häntzschel, Gabriele Wohmann, Beck, 1982, ISBN 978-3-406-08691-5