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WRITER

Hans Werner Richter

1908 - 1993

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Hans Werner Richter (12 November 1908 – 23 March 1993) was a German writer. Born the son of a fisherman in Neu Sallenthin on the island of Usedom, Richter worked first in a bookshop in Swinemünde (now Świnoujście in Poland) and later moved to Berlin. He fought in World War II and was taken prisoner in 1943. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Werner Richter has received more than 32,023 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hans Werner Richter is the 4,469th most popular writer (down from 4,008th in 2019), the 4,045th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,551st in 2019) and the 266th most popular German Writer.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.37

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  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hans Werner Richter ranks 4,469 out of 5,755. Before him are Edward William Lane, James Agee, Stijn Streuvels, Nikolai Tikhonov, George Chapman, and Iakob Gogebashvili. After him are Leo Buscaglia, Kostas Karyotakis, Samo Chalupka, Stanislav Stratiev, Andrea Maffei, and Gavino Ledda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Hans Werner Richter ranks 257. Before him are Helmut Käutner, Erich Srbek, Percy Williams, Hermógenes Fonseca, Guillermo Arellano, and Zainab Biisheva. After him are Marina Ladynina, Jules Vandooren, Jean-Pierre Wimille, Vano Muradeli, Inga Gentzel, and Kazuo Hasegawa. Among people deceased in 1993, Hans Werner Richter ranks 174. Before him are J. R. D. Tata, John Frost, Norman Vincent Peale, Mohammad Natsir, Héctor De Bourgoing, and Axel von dem Bussche. After him are Rudolf Wetzer, Alfred Manessier, Kenny Drew, Štefan Uher, Jean Cau, and Leslie Charteris.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Werner Richter ranks 4,045 out of 6,142. Before him are Walter Momper (1945), Rosi Mittermaier (1950), Cilly Aussem (1909), Christa Stubnick (1933), Rolf Wolfshohl (1938), and Saskia Esken (1961). After him are Renate Stecher (1950), Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1682), Ruth Leuwerik (1924), Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794), Martin Chemnitz (1522), and August Wilhelm Iffland (1759).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Hans Werner Richter ranks 266. Before him are Fredric Wertham (1895), Peter Scholl-Latour (1924), Johann von Rist (1607), Klaus Groth (1819), Carl Sternheim (1878), and Hilde Domin (1909). After him are Tankred Dorst (1925), Kito Lorenc (1938), Adolf Brand (1874), Peter Härtling (1933), Wolfgang Koeppen (1906), and Karl Leberecht Immermann (1796).

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