WRITER

Heinrich Böll

1917 - 1985

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Heinrich Theodor Böll (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈbœl] ; 21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was a German writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Böll has received more than 746,193 page views. His biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Heinrich Böll is the 162nd most popular writer (down from 151st in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Germany (down from 124th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Writer.

Heinrich Böll is most famous for his novel, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum.

Memorability Metrics

  • 750k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 95

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Billiards at Half Past Nine
Social life and customs, Fiction, Social conditions
1959
The Clown
Fiction, Pantomimes, Clowns
1965
Und sagte kein einziges Wort
Fiction, Married people, Marriage
1953
Werke
1977
Wo warst du, Adam?
World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, Translations into English
1951
Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
Fiction, Tabloid newspapers, Young women
1975

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Heinrich Böll ranks 162 out of 7,302. Before him are Fernando Pessoa, Karen Blixen, John the Evangelist, Terry Pratchett, Georges Simenon, and Lucian. After him are Menander, Cyrano de Bergerac, Nicolas Flamel, Ivan Turgenev, H. G. Wells, and Pindar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Heinrich Böll ranks 4. Before him are John F. Kennedy, Park Chung-hee, and Indira Gandhi. After him are Arthur C. Clarke, Ilya Prigogine, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Eric Hobsbawm, Frederica of Hanover, I. M. Pei, and Ferdinand Marcos. Among people deceased in 1985, Heinrich Böll ranks 5. Before him are Marc Chagall, Enver Hoxha, Yul Brynner, and Konstantin Chernenko. After him are Italo Calvino, Carl Schmitt, Simone Signoret, Fernand Braudel, Orson Welles, László Bíró, and Jean Dubuffet.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Böll ranks 128 out of 7,253. Before him are Augustus II the Strong (1670), Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472), Leopold I of Belgium (1790), Michael Schumacher (1969), Lothair I (795), and Queen Silvia of Sweden (1943). After him are Michel Ney (1769), Walter Gropius (1883), Erik Erikson (1902), Carl Orff (1895), George I of Great Britain (1660), and Georg Philipp Telemann (1681).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Heinrich Böll ranks 11. Before him are Thomas Mann (1875), Heinrich Heine (1797), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Charles Bukowski (1920), and Novalis (1772). After him are Eckhart Tolle (1948), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Jacob Grimm (1785), Nelly Sachs (1891), and Paul Heyse (1830).

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