WRITER

Anna Seghers

1900 - 1983

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Anna Seghers (German: [ˈana ˈzeːɡɛʁs] ; born Anna Reiling, 19 November 1900 – 1 June 1983), is the pseudonym of German writer Anna Reiling, who was notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born into a Jewish family and married to a Hungarian Communist, Seghers escaped Nazi-controlled territory through wartime France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Seghers has received more than 227,727 page views. Her biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Anna Seghers is the 916th most popular writer (down from 853rd in 2019), the 864th most popular biography from Germany (down from 837th in 2019) and the 55th most popular German Writer.

Anna Seghers was a German communist who wrote novels, short stories, and essays. She is most famous for her novel "The Seventh Cross" which was published in 1939.

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  • 4.24

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Notable Works

Erzählungen
1963
Transit
Refugee, Nazi, fascism
A must read book about refugees and escape during the Nazi regime that has recently been adapted into the movie version also known as simply as “transit”.
1944
Das siebte Kreuz
1942
Die Toten bleiben jung
1949
Das Vertrauen
1968
Aufstand der Fischer von St. Barbara
1928

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anna Seghers ranks 916 out of 7,302. Before her are Gnaeus Naevius, N. F. S. Grundtvig, Achim von Arnim, L. Ron Hubbard, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Johann Kaspar Lavater. After her are Walter Lippmann, Božena Němcová, Thomas Wolfe, Clifford D. Simak, Jacques Clément, and James May.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Anna Seghers ranks 41. Before her are Chiune Sugihara, Walther Wenck, Mahavatar Babaji, Ragnar Granit, Julien Green, and Gladwyn Jebb. After her are W. Edwards Deming, Thomas Wolfe, Howard H. Aiken, Pedro Cea, Raphael Lemkin, and Edith Frank. Among people deceased in 1983, Anna Seghers ranks 29. Before her are Gloria Swanson, Ulf von Euler, Aleksandar Ranković, John Fante, Klaus Nomi, and Luis Monti. After her are Muddy Waters, Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, Maurice Ronet, Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Benigno Aquino Jr., and Georges Auric.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anna Seghers ranks 864 out of 7,253. Before her are Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1709), Nastassja Kinski (1961), Achim von Arnim (1781), Frederica of Baden (1781), Paul Reuter (1816), and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia (1720). After her are Josef Albers (1888), Carl Spitzweg (1808), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1774), Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (1546), Felix Wankel (1902), and Rudolf Schenker (1948).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Anna Seghers ranks 55. Before her are Frank Wedekind (1864), Peter Weiss (1916), Bernhard Schlink (1944), Hans Fallada (1893), Stefan George (1868), and Achim von Arnim (1781). After her are Joost van den Vondel (1587), Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622), W. G. Sebald (1944), Hans Sachs (1494), Kurt Eisner (1867), and Tannhäuser (1205).

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