ACTOR

Brunhilde Pomsel

1911 - 2017

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Brunhilde Pomsel (11 January 1911 – 27 January 2017) was a personal secretary to Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany. She started work at the ministry's offices in the Ordenspalais opposite the Reich Chancellery in Berlin in 1942. In 2014, aged 103, she gave a series of interviews for a film documentary entitled A German Life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brunhilde Pomsel has received more than 213,281 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Brunhilde Pomsel is the 2,721st most popular actor (down from 1,947th in 2019), the 3,454th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,598th in 2019) and the 90th most popular German Actor.

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  • 52.01

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Brunhilde Pomsel ranks 2,721 out of 13,578. Before her are Fahriye Evcen, Vladimir Basov, Sonja Wigert, Moira Orfei, Jean Hersholt, and Richard Tauber. After her are Edward Furlong, Linda Fiorentino, Miyoshi Umeki, Hayley Atwell, John Williams, and Toby Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Brunhilde Pomsel ranks 159. Before her are Arkady Raikin, Hume Cronyn, Kukrit Pramoj, Floyd Council, Allan Pettersson, and Aliya bint Ali. After her are Roy Rogers, Terry-Thomas, Gian Carlo Menotti, Wolfgang Larrazábal, René Barjavel, and Guy Burgess. Among people deceased in 2017, Brunhilde Pomsel ranks 219. Before her are Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Haruo Nakajima, Carlo Caffarra, Henning Jensen, and Kurt Moll. After her are Gregg Allman, Klaus Huber, Bernard Francis Law, Spencer Johnson, Feliciano Rivilla, and Larry Coryell.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Brunhilde Pomsel ranks 3,454 out of 7,253. Before her are John Albert II (1590), Maurice d'Elbée (1752), Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg (1836), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1354), and Helmut Jahn (1940). After her are Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg (1829), Henry Oldenburg (1619), Carl Diem (1882), Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen (1879), Bernhard Cullmann (1949), and Karin Balzer (1938).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Brunhilde Pomsel ranks 90. Before her are Dieter Hallervorden (1935), Richard Sammel (1960), Christian Berkel (1957), Bruno S. (1932), Greta Schröder (1891), and Fahriye Evcen (1986). After her are Judith Malina (1926), Alfred Abel (1879), Siegfried Rauch (1932), Dominic Monaghan (1976), Hans Christian Blech (1915), and Margit Carstensen (1940).

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Television and Movie Roles

A German Life
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Brunhilde Pomsel was a stenographer for Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Many people think that the dangers of fascism have been overcome, but she makes it clear that this is not the case.
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