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Else Lasker-Schüler

1869 - 1945

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Else Lasker-Schüler (née Elisabeth Schüler) (German: [ˈɛl.zə ˈlas.kɐ ˈʃyː.lɐ] ; 11 February 1869 – 22 January 1945) was a German-Jewish poet and playwright famous for her bohemian lifestyle in Berlin and her poetry. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Else Lasker-Schüler has received more than 298,895 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Else Lasker-Schüler is the 1,577th most popular writer (down from 869th in 2019), the 1,678th most popular biography from Germany (down from 791st in 2019) and the 106th most popular German Writer.

Lasker-Schüler was most famous for her poetry, which often focused on the themes of love and death.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Else Lasker-Schüler ranks 1,577 out of 5,755. Before her are Alistair MacLean, Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti, Sri Chinmoy, Yan Fu, Táhirih, and Remy de Gourmont. After her are Ono no Komachi, Marianne Weber, Clodia Pulchra, Jean-François Marmontel, Maximus the Greek, and Jacopo Sannazaro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Else Lasker-Schüler ranks 49. Before her are Hovhannes Tumanyan, Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein, Carl Schuhmann, Giulio Douhet, Vasily Bartold, and Valdemar Poulsen. After her are Bogd Khan, Alfred Flatow, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia, Tony Garnier, Hans Pfitzner, and Stanisław Wyspiański. Among people deceased in 1945, Else Lasker-Schüler ranks 122. Before her are Mário de Andrade, Bogdan Filov, Albrecht Penck, Robert Desnos, Paul Pelliot, and Otto Kittel. After her are Le Pétomane, Fritz Klingenberg, Robert Brasillach, Seiichi Itō, Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, and Alexander Siloti.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Else Lasker-Schüler ranks 1,678 out of 6,142. Before her are Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (1833), Carl Gustav Carus (1789), Josef Bühler (1904), Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia (1719), and Hans Blumenberg (1920). After her are Kurt Gerron (1897), Carl Ludwig (1816), Marianne Weber (1870), Johannes Steinhoff (1913), William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1516), and Hermann Lotze (1817).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Else Lasker-Schüler ranks 106. Before her are Salvian (405), Wilhelm Weitling (1808), Gottfried August Bürger (1747), Gustav Landauer (1870), Eduard Mörike (1804), and Anton Praetorius (1560). After her are Marianne Weber (1870), Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918), Adolph Freiherr Knigge (1752), Wolfgang Borchert (1921), Jordan of Saxony (1190), and Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871).

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