WRITER

Ernst Toller

1893 - 1939

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Ernst Toller (1 December 1893 – 22 May 1939) was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionist plays. He served in 1919 for six days as President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, after which he became the head of its army. He was imprisoned for five years for his part in the armed resistance by the Bavarian Soviet Republic to the central government in Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Toller has received more than 436,755 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Ernst Toller is the 1,064th most popular writer (down from 1,023rd in 2019), the 228th most popular biography from Poland (down from 216th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Polish Writer.

Ernst Toller is most famous for his play "The White Rose" which is about the White Rose, a group of students in Munich who distributed anti-Nazi leaflets.

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.32

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  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Seven plays
German drama
1935
Hinkemann
1923
Das Schwalbenbuch
1924
Jugend in Deutschland
1934
Masse-Mensch
1921
Quer durch
1930

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ernst Toller ranks 1,064 out of 7,302. Before him are Adalbert Stifter, Ibn Sirin, Zelda Fitzgerald, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Titus Pomponius Atticus, and Egeria. After him are Valerie Solanas, Sonia Rykiel, Madeleine de Scudéry, Ilia Chavchavadze, Diana Wynne Jones, and Dionysius Thrax.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Ernst Toller ranks 51. Before him are Lucien Tesnière, Jomo Kenyatta, Clemens Krauss, Emmy Göring, Roy O. Disney, and Allen Dulles. After him are Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Battista Farina, Erwin Piscator, Nicholas J. Spykman, and Walter Christaller. Among people deceased in 1939, Ernst Toller ranks 27. Before him are Ambroise Vollard, Alexander Yegorov, Anthony Fokker, Ghazi of Iraq, Otto Rank, and Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. After him are Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, Prince Valdemar of Denmark, Wilhelm Groener, S. P. L. Sørensen, Evald Aav, and Stanislav Kosior.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ernst Toller ranks 228 out of 1,694. Before him are Johanna Schopenhauer (1766), Emil Ludwig (1881), Hans Modrow (1928), Felix Hausdorff (1868), Samuel Reshevsky (1911), and Władysław II the Exile (1105). After him are Aleksandra Ekster (1882), Zbigniew Boniek (1956), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), and Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Ernst Toller ranks 20. Before him are Christa Wolf (1929), Jan Potocki (1761), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), B. Traven (1882), Johanna Schopenhauer (1766), and Emil Ludwig (1881). After him are Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Arnold Zweig (1887), Bolesław Prus (1847), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Albert Barillé (1920), and Jan Długosz (1415).

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