WRITER

Herbert Achternbusch

1938 - 2022

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Herbert Achternbusch (né Schild; 23 November 1938 – 10 January 2022) was a German film director, writer and painter. He began as a writer of avant-garde prose, such as the novel Die Alexanderschlacht, before turning to low-budget films. He had a love-hate relationship with Bavaria which showed itself in his work. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Achternbusch has received more than 76,458 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Herbert Achternbusch is the 4,327th most popular writer (down from 2,955th in 2019), the 4,237th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,007th in 2019) and the 263rd most popular German Writer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.65

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  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Das Ambacher Exil
1987
Das Gespenst
1983
Die blaue Blume
1987
Die Alexanderschlacht
1971
Die Atlantikschwimmer
1978
Das Haus am Nil
1981

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Herbert Achternbusch ranks 4,327 out of 7,302. Before him are Philip Arthur Fisher, Robin Sharma, Mike Resnick, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, and Mordecai Richler. After him are Dorothee Sölle, Franciszek Karpiński, Orhan Kemal, Winston Graham, Helen Prejean, and Breyten Breytenbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Herbert Achternbusch ranks 346. Before him are Christiane Hörbiger, Timo Mäkinen, Huang Ju, Heinz Strehl, Werner Olk, and Fred Stolle. After him are Frederic Rzewski, Anatoliy Zlenko, Jonathan Motzfeldt, Herman Daly, Durdy Bayramov, and Elke Erb. Among people deceased in 2022, Herbert Achternbusch ranks 303. Before him are Jean-Claude Mézières, Herbert W. Franke, André Wilms, Christiane Hörbiger, Omar Borrás, and Lygia Fagundes Telles. After him are Anatoly Kvashnin, Jean Philippe, François Remetter, Nélida Piñon, Herman Daly, and Kevin Conroy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Herbert Achternbusch ranks 4,237 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1891), Christian Ziege (1972), Albert Richter (1912), Louise Caroline of Hochberg (1768), Adolf Urban (1914), and Ernst Herzfeld (1879). After him are Franz Delitzsch (1813), Princess Marie of Nassau (1825), Dorothee Sölle (1929), Peter Gay (1923), Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (1923), and Ernst Albrecht (1907).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Herbert Achternbusch ranks 263. Before him are Carl Sternheim (1878), Bel Kaufman (1911), Joachim Ringelnatz (1883), Iwan Bloch (1872), Fritz Reuter (1810), and Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746). After him are Dorothee Sölle (1929), Ruth Westheimer (1928), Elke Erb (1938), Karl Leberecht Immermann (1796), Paul Bekker (1882), and Johann Beckmann (1739).

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