WRITER

Bruno Apitz

1900 - 1979

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Bruno Apitz (28 April 1900 – 7 April 1979) was a German writer and a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruno Apitz has received more than 45,763 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Bruno Apitz is the 3,729th most popular writer (up from 3,951st in 2019), the 3,771st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,708th in 2019) and the 225th most popular German Writer.

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  • 46k

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  • 50.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bruno Apitz ranks 3,729 out of 7,302Before him are Jules Lemaître, Glückel of Hameln, Constance Lloyd, Sunthorn Phu, Georgette Heyer, and Wu Jingzi. After him are Innokenty Annensky, Philippe Jaccottet, James A. Michener, José Emilio Pacheco, Margit Kaffka, and Og Mandino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Bruno Apitz ranks 177Before him are Walther Kadow, Karl Kaufmann, Mikhail Isakovsky, Dumarsais Estimé, Paul Kletzki, and Kateryna Bilokur. After him are Giovanni Urbani, Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer, Haskell Curry, and Adlai Stevenson II. Among people deceased in 1979, Bruno Apitz ranks 149Before him are Walter Legge, I. A. Richards, Henri Saint Cyr, Georgy Beriev, George Seaton, and Tapio Rautavaara. After him are Volodymyr Ivasyuk, Barbara Hutton, Vilho Niittymaa, Joan Blondell, Jack Haley, and Lothar Wolleh.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bruno Apitz ranks 3,771 out of 7,253Before him are Norbert Lammert (1948), Alexander, Prince of Lippe (1831), Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel (1804), Glückel of Hameln (1646), Wolf Hoffmann (1959), and Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (1495). After him are Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg (1653), Karl Blossfeldt (1865), Bernd Förster (1956), Caspar Olevian (1536), Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1706), and Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen (1762).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Bruno Apitz ranks 225Before him are Gunter d'Alquen (1910), Günter Eich (1907), Johann Heinrich Voss (1751), Sylvia Nasar (1947), Robert Jungk (1913), and Glückel of Hameln (1646). After him are Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807), Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810), Walter Kempowski (1929), Irmgard Keun (1905), Johann Most (1846), and Botho Strauß (1944).