WRITER

Angela Sommer-Bodenburg

1948 - Today

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Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (born December 18, 1948) is the author of a number of fantasy books for children. Her most famous contribution to the field of children's fantasy is The Little Vampire series, which has sold over 10 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages. Sommer-Bodenburg states that her "vampire is not a bloodthirsty monster, however, but an affectionate little vampire with fears and foibles who will perhaps help free children of their own fears." The novel, written in 1979, spawned a series of books, and the plot has been adapted to theatre, radio, cinema, and television. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Angela Sommer-Bodenburg has received more than 59,600 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Angela Sommer-Bodenburg is the 4,625th most popular writer (down from 4,131st in 2019), the 4,424th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,832nd in 2019) and the 277th most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 60k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Little Vampire
2012
Wenn du dich gruseln willst
Fear, Ficción juvenil, Fiction
Bored and sick in bed, Freddy listens to four scary stories told to him by members of his family and then makes one up himself.
1987
The little vampire
Friendship, Vampires, Fiction
1983
My Friend The Vampire
Friendship, Vampires, Fiction
A horror story fan, nine-year-old Tony Noodleman's life becomes more thrilling than anything he's ever read when he befriends a couple of vampires named Rudolph and Anna.
1984
Little Vampire and the Wicked Plot
1993
El Pequeño Vampiro
1999

Page views of Angela Sommer-Bodenburgs by language

Over the past year Angela Sommer-Bodenburg has had the most page views in the with 9,785 views, followed by Spanish (7,346), and English (5,909). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (152.68%), Galician (71.35%), and Hungarian (66.51%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Angela Sommer-Bodenburg ranks 4,625 out of 7,302. Before her are Anita Loos, Agnes Miegel, Robert Lowell, Staka Skenderova, Eugenio Espejo, and Łukasz Górnicki. After her are Friedrich von Hagedorn, James Agee, Oğuz Atay, Adam Asnyk, Alexander McCall Smith, and Ludwig Bechstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Angela Sommer-Bodenburg ranks 404. Before her are Toninho, Uschi Digard, Natalya Gundareva, Chris Mulkey, Lyudmila Karachkina, and Eleonora Brown. After her are Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Alexander McCall Smith, Vinko Jelovac, Oliver Shanti, Ivan Yarygin, and Elias Khoury.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Angela Sommer-Bodenburg ranks 4,424 out of 7,253. Before her are Norbert Haug (1952), Fritz Graebner (1877), Klaus Bonsack (1941), Ludwig Biermann (1907), Karl Freiherr von Müffling (1775), and John Ericson (1926). After her are Marie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel (1768), Joseph Wendel (1901), Fritz Schäffer (1888), Friedrich von Hagedorn (1708), Elly Ney (1882), and Ludwig Bechstein (1801).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Angela Sommer-Bodenburg ranks 277. Before her are Felix Dahn (1834), Uwe Timm (1940), Murad Wilfried Hofmann (1931), Leopold Andrian (1875), Wilhelm Geiger (1856), and Hilde Domin (1909). After her are Friedrich von Hagedorn (1708), Ludwig Bechstein (1801), Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867), Joseph Meyer (1796), Louise Otto-Peters (1819), and Hans Werner Richter (1908).

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