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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 116,188 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Carl Zuckmayer is the 2,468th most popular writer (down from 2,305th in 2019), the 2,572nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,292nd in 2019) and the 158th most popular German Writer.

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  • 120k

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  • 53.44

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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carl Zuckmayer ranks 2,468 out of 5,755Before him are M. Karunanidhi, Chittaranjan Das, Jim Thompson, Ryōkan, Renée Vivien, and George of Pisidia. After him are André Aciman, Olympiodorus of Thebes, Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Howard Fast, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, and Luigi Illica.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Carl Zuckmayer ranks 110Before him are Ludwik Fleck, Erich Hückel, Carl Ludwig Siegel, Léonide Massine, John of Shanghai and San Francisco, and Fritz Heider. After him are Charlie Rivel, Anandamayi Ma, Henry Allingham, Ieronim Uborevich, He Long, and André Hunebelle. Among people deceased in 1977, Carl Zuckmayer ranks 94Before him are Dietrich von Hildebrand, Zózimo, Pierre Clastres, Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Henry Tandey, and Jim Thompson. After him are Sergei Kruglov, Pan Yuliang, Kōichi Kido, Sumitranandan Pant, Nathan Homer Knorr, and Jean Hagen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Zuckmayer ranks 2,572 out of 6,142Before him are Richard Hildebrandt (1897), Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1865), Duke George of Oldenburg (1784), Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (1694), Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia (1714), and Justinus Kerner (1786). After him are Wilhelm Marschall (1886), Johann Crüger (1598), Theo Albrecht (1922), Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1842), Jakub Bart-Ćišinski (1856), and Judith Malina (1926).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Carl Zuckmayer ranks 158Before him are Friedrich Spee (1591), Wilhelm Raabe (1831), Gottschalk of Orbais (805), Cornelia Funke (1958), Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723), and Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772). After him are Jakub Bart-Ćišinski (1856), Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715), Heinrich Hoffmann (1809), Ursula Kuczynski (1907), Mina Witkojc (1893), and August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796).