WRITER

Carl Zuckmayer

1896 - 1977

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Carl Zuckmayer (27 December 1896 – 18 January 1977) was a German writer and playwright. His older brother was the pedagogue, composer, conductor, and pianist Eduard Zuckmayer. His first two dramas were failures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Zuckmayer has received more than 127,163 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Carl Zuckmayer is the 2,036th most popular writer (up from 2,460th in 2019), the 2,170th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,569th in 2019) and the 131st most popular German Writer.

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  • 130k

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  • 62.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carl Zuckmayer ranks 2,036 out of 7,302. Before him are Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Aloysius Bertrand, Alciphron, Jean Paulhan, Sulpicia, and Menander Protector. After him are Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Annette Kellermann, Fyodor Sologub, Tom Wolfe, Ahmad ibn Arabshah, and Malik Muhammad Jayasi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Carl Zuckmayer ranks 95. Before him are Wilhelm Ackermann, Mir Jafar Baghirov, Faina Ranevskaya, Rudolf Schmundt, Zygmunt Berling, and Princess Maria Bona of Savoy-Genoa. After him are Salim Ali, Henry Allingham, D. R. Bendre, He Long, Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia, and Hans Cramer. Among people deceased in 1977, Carl Zuckmayer ranks 82. Before him are Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Džemal Bijedić, Miloš Crnjanski, Arsenio Erico, Hamazasp Babadzhanian, and Henry Tandey. After him are James M. Cain, Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani, Giorgio Pessina, Kinuyo Tanaka, Marie-Thérèse Walter, and Delmer Daves.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Zuckmayer ranks 2,170 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (1767), Princess Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1661), Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730), Andre Gunder Frank (1929), Andreas Möller (1967), and Heinrich Eberbach (1895). After him are Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773), Johannes Heinrich Schultz (1884), Hannelore Kohl (1933), Johann Conrad Dippel (1673), Joachim Neander (1650), and Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden (1824).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Carl Zuckmayer ranks 131. Before him are Wolfgang Borchert (1921), Jordan of Saxony (1190), Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901), Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871), Yehuda Amichai (1924), and Rudolf Rocker (1873). After him are Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773), Joachim Neander (1650), Rahel Varnhagen (1771), Ludwig Uhland (1787), Anton Praetorius (1560), and C. W. Ceram (1915).

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