WRITER

Christa Wolf

1929 - 2011

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Christa Wolf (German: [ˈkʁɪs.ta vɔlf] ; née Ihlenfeld; 18 March 1929 – 1 December 2011) was a German novelist and essayist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christa Wolf has received more than 288,722 page views. Her biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Christa Wolf is the 750th most popular writer (down from 735th in 2019), the 159th most popular biography from Poland (down from 153rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Polish Writer.

Christa Wolf is most famous for her novel "The Quest for Christa T."

Memorability Metrics

  • 290k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Christa Wolf ranks 750 out of 7,302. Before her are Theognis of Megara, A. J. Cronin, Felix Salten, Sven Hassel, Taha Hussein, and Aelius Donatus. After her are Clemens Brentano, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Ulrich von Hutten, Antonio Machado, and Jean Anouilh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Christa Wolf ranks 50. Before her are Milorad Pavić, Helmut Rahn, Eric Kandel, Werner Arber, Bill Evans, and Zoltán Czibor. After her are Yevgeny Primakov, Gudrun Burwitz, Karolos Papoulias, Günter Schabowski, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Murray Gell-Mann. Among people deceased in 2011, Christa Wolf ranks 32. Before her are Burhanuddin Rabbani, Jane Russell, Gary Moore, John McCarthy, Manfred Gerlach, and Necmettin Erbakan. After her are Ralph M. Steinman, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Herbert A. Hauptman, Ernesto Sabato, Lynn Margulis, and Jorge Semprún.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Christa Wolf ranks 159 out of 1,694. Before her are Miroslav Klose (1978), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Rochus Misch (1917), Erich Mendelsohn (1887), and Maxim Litvinov (1876). After her are William I of Württemberg (1781), Hermann Balck (1893), Georg Michaelis (1857), Robert Lewandowski (1988), Witold Lutosławski (1913), and Bolesław Bierut (1892).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Christa Wolf ranks 14. Before her are Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Alfred Döblin (1878), and Witold Gombrowicz (1904). After her are Jan Potocki (1761), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), B. Traven (1882), Johanna Schopenhauer (1766), Emil Ludwig (1881), and Ernst Toller (1893).

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