WRITER

Günter Eich

1907 - 1972

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Günter Eich (German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈaɪç]; 1 February 1907 – 20 December 1972) was a German poet, radio playwright, and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Günter Eich has received more than 55,497 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Günter Eich is the 3,613th most popular writer (up from 3,678th in 2019), the 3,681st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,534th in 2019) and the 220th most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 55k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Fünfzehn Hörspiele
Radio plays
1966
Botschaften des Regens
1955
Gesammelte Maulwürfe
1972
Die Mädchen aus Viterbo
German language, Readers
1962
Abgelegene Gehöfte
1948
Träume
Radio drama, Radio plays
1953
Fünfzehn Hörspiele
Radio plays
1966

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Günter Eich ranks 3,613 out of 7,302. Before him are Luciano De Crescenzo, Marc Levy, Musine Kokalari, Vizma Belševica, Theodore Bibliander, and Sturla Þórðarson. After him are Marcin Kromer, Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Jan Brzechwa, Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, John Mauropous, and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Günter Eich ranks 193. Before him are Edwige Feuillère, Fritz Szepan, Germaine Tillion, Polina Osipenko, Volmari Iso-Hollo, and Jack Albertson. After him are Peggy Ashcroft, Martti Miettunen, Kenneth Nichols, George Raynor, František Junek, and James A. Michener. Among people deceased in 1972, Günter Eich ranks 131. Before him are Joseph Cornell, Rudolf Belling, Stanislaus Kobierski, W. Ross Ashby, Lee Beom-seok, and Alfons Gorbach. After him are Miriam Hopkins, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Deniz Gezmiş, Louise Arner Boyd, Jinichi Kusaka, and Antal Szabó.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Günter Eich ranks 3,681 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Solf (1862), Heinz Kwiatkowski (1926), Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp (1630), Edgar Ende (1901), Bernhard II, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1428), and Johann von Werth (1591). After him are Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757), Hakan Çalhanoğlu (1994), Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller (1897), Gisèle Freund (1908), Thorsten Fink (1967), and Herbert Zimmermann (1954).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Günter Eich ranks 220. Before him are Johann Ernst Glück (1652), Jurij Brězan (1916), Justus Jonas (1493), Theodor Körner (1791), Leonhard Frank (1882), and Gunter d'Alquen (1910). After him are Johann Heinrich Voss (1751), Sylvia Nasar (1947), Robert Jungk (1913), Glückel of Hameln (1646), Bruno Apitz (1900), and Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807).

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