WRITER

Heiner Müller

1929 - 1995

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Heiner Müller (German: [haɪnɐ mʏlɐ]; 9 January 1929 – 30 December 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heiner Müller has received more than 210,652 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Heiner Müller is the 1,491st most popular writer (down from 1,436th in 2019), the 1,580th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,501st in 2019) and the 102nd most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Rotwelsch
1982
Werke
Drama, Accessible book
1998
A Heiner Müller Reader
2001
Gesammelte Irrtümer
Authors,German, Interviews
1986
Philoktet
1966
Explosion of a Memory (PAJ Books)
1989

Page views of Heiner Müllers by language

Over the past year Heiner Müller has had the most page views in the with 52,426 views, followed by English (20,812), and French (6,692). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (103.96%), Southern Azerbaijani (51.38%), and Italian (39.75%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Heiner Müller ranks 1,491 out of 7,302. Before him are Thoinot Arbeau, Allen Carr, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Lord Alfred Douglas, Evelyn Waugh, and Marianne Weber. After him are Adam Oehlenschläger, Stéphane Hessel, Gil Vicente, Robert Jordan, Salvian, and B. K. S. Iyengar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Heiner Müller ranks 117. Before him are Carlos Lacoste, Bob Newhart, June Carter Cash, Kishore Kumar, John Polanyi, and Nureddin al-Atassi. After him are Reino Börjesson, Joan Plowright, Hugo Claus, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, and Don Murray. Among people deceased in 1995, Heiner Müller ranks 69. Before him are Georges Canguilhem, Ko Takamoro, Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, James Meade, Elizabeth Montgomery, and Ernest Mandel. After him are Krešimir Ćosić, Yves Congar, Takeo Fukuda, Chen Yun, Eileen Chang, and Morarji Desai.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heiner Müller ranks 1,580 out of 7,253. Before him are Oswald Achenbach (1827), Eric Voegelin (1901), Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1526), Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (1893), Gottfried John (1942), and Marianne Weber (1870). After him are Gertrude of Hohenberg (1225), Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony (1728), August Leskien (1840), Richard Glücks (1889), Stéphane Hessel (1917), and Max Immelmann (1890).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Heiner Müller ranks 102. Before him are Arnold van Gennep (1873), Paul Rée (1849), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798), Gottfried August Bürger (1747), and Marianne Weber (1870). After him are Stéphane Hessel (1917), Salvian (405), Eduard Mörike (1804), Adolph Freiherr Knigge (1752), Gustav Landauer (1870), and Uri Avnery (1923).

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