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Erich Kästner

1899 - 1974

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Emil Erich Kästner (German: [ˈʔeːʁɪç ˈkɛstnɐ] ; 23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and The Parent Trap. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1960 for his autobiography Als ich ein kleiner Junge war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erich Kästner has received more than 576,026 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Erich Kästner is the 537th most popular writer (down from 489th in 2019), the 507th most popular biography from Germany (down from 418th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Writer.

Erich Kästner is most famous for his children's book, The Adventures of Emil and the Detectives.

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  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.31

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  • 5.01

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Erich Kästner ranks 537 out of 5,755. Before him are Premchand, Patrick Süskind, Camille Flammarion, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Washington Irving, and Eugene O'Neill. After him are Marie-Antoine Carême, Ivan Bunin, Laurence Sterne, Kazuo Ishiguro, Wilbur Smith, and Alfred Jarry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Erich Kästner ranks 18. Before him are László Bíró, Fred Astaire, Francis Poulenc, Adnan Menderes, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, and Duke Ellington. After him are Miguel Ángel Asturias, Béla Guttmann, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Albert Claude, Paul Hermann Müller, and Gloria Swanson. Among people deceased in 1974, Erich Kästner ranks 18. Before him are U Thant, Imre Lakatos, Rudolf Dassler, David Oistrakh, Duke Ellington, and Otto Strasser. After him are Miguel Ángel Asturias, Darius Milhaud, Jacob L. Moreno, Julius Evola, Peng Dehuai, and Fritz Zwicky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erich Kästner ranks 507 out of 6,142. Before him are Patrick Süskind (1949), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), August Weismann (1834), Friedrich List (1789), Aby Warburg (1866), and Kurt Student (1890). After him are Otto Carius (1922), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Otto Diels (1876), John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1503), Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), and Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Erich Kästner ranks 30. Before him are Wilhelm Grimm (1786), Traudl Junge (1920), Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170), Jean Paul (1763), Ulrich von Hutten (1488), and Patrick Süskind (1949). After him are Heinrich Mann (1871), Lion Feuchtwanger (1884), Dietrich Eckart (1868), Elisabeth of Wied (1843), August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767), and Ludwig Tieck (1773).

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