WRITER

Gitta Sereny

1921 - 2012

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Gitta Sereny, CBE (13 March 1921 – 14 June 2012) was an Austrian-British biographer, historian, and investigative journalist who became known for her interviews and profiles of infamous figures, including Mary Bell, who was convicted in 1968 of killing two children when she herself was a child, and Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp. Born and initially raised in Austria, she was the author of five books, including The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered (1972) and Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth (1995). Sereny was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her book on Albert Speer in 1995, and the Stig Dagerman Prize in 2002. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gitta Sereny has received more than 404,608 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Gitta Sereny is the 1,914th most popular writer (up from 2,508th in 2019), the 449th most popular biography from Austria (up from 535th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Austrian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Albert Speer
Biography, Politics and government, Nazis
1995
The invisible children
Child prostitution, Interviews, Prostitutes
1984
The case of Mary Bell
1972
The Healing Wound
Politics and government, Psychological aspects of National socialism, Psychological aspects of Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
2001
Cries unheard
Murderers, Biography, Juvenile homicide
1998
Into that darkness
Concentration camps, German Prisoners and prisons, World War, 1939-1945
1974

Page views of Gitta Serenies by language

Over the past year Gitta Sereny has had the most page views in the with 40,273 views, followed by French (5,580), and German (5,198). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Japanese (171.88%), Serbian (116.45%), and Piedmontese (80.00%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gitta Sereny ranks 1,914 out of 7,302. Before her are Ruan Ji, György Konrád, Clark Ashton Smith, Moschus, Eiji Tsuburaya, and Surdas. After her are Watchman Nee, Juhani Aho, Nicanor Parra, Miklós Nyiszli, Thomas Wyatt, and Michel de Ghelderode.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Gitta Sereny ranks 123. Before her are Ralph Asher Alpher, Stein Rokkan, Manitas de Plata, Deanna Durbin, Philippe de Gaulle, and Branko Stanković. After her are Wolfgang Borchert, Pierre Clostermann, César Baldaccini, Maurice Yaméogo, Eugenio Coșeriu, and James Whitmore. Among people deceased in 2012, Gitta Sereny ranks 104. Before her are Alfred Schmidt, Lina Romay, Andy Williams, Nora Ephron, Carlo Maria Martini, and Scott McKenzie. After her are Charles Durning, Félix Miélli Venerando, Svetozar Gligorić, Bal Thackeray, Sergio Pininfarina, and Kaneto Shindo.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Gitta Sereny ranks 449 out of 1,424. Before her are Carlo Abarth (1908), Avgustyn Voloshyn (1874), Wolf Albach-Retty (1906), Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740), Prince René of Bourbon-Parma (1894), and Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1822). After her are Eduard Roschmann (1908), Sylvester Stadler (1910), Alexander Korda (1893), Brian Laudrup (1969), Hermann Gmeiner (1919), and Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Gitta Sereny ranks 33. Before her are Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774), Peter Altenberg (1859), Hermann Bahr (1863), Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824), Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874), and Eva Schloss (1929). After her are Raul Hilberg (1926), Pauline von Metternich (1836), Johann Nestroy (1801), Marlen Haushofer (1920), Ulrich von Liechtenstein (1200), and Ilse Aichinger (1921).

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