ACTOR

Holger Meins

1941 - 1974

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Holger Klaus Meins (26 October 1941 – 9 November 1974) was a German cinematography student who joined the Red Army Faction (RAF) in the early 1970s and died on hunger strike in prison. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Holger Meins has received more than 118,330 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Holger Meins is the 3,115th most popular actor (down from 3,034th in 2019), the 3,736th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,473rd in 2019) and the 108th most popular German Actor.

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  • 51.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Holger Meins ranks 3,115 out of 13,578. Before him are Adam Driver, Maite Perroni, Barry Corbin, Erika Blanc, Anupam Kher, and Evelyn Keyes. After him are Bridget Moynahan, Jesse Eisenberg, Gad Elmaleh, Dodo Abashidze, Cedric Hardwicke, and Anna Rita Del Piano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Holger Meins ranks 294. Before him are Albert Shesternyov, Neelie Kroes, Sara Nazarbayeva, Arie den Hartog, Renato Corsetti, and Peter Brötzmann. After him are John Bennett Perry, Joan Wallach Scott, Alexander Ragulin, Michael Moriarty, Ibrahim Babangida, and Patience Dabany. Among people deceased in 1974, Holger Meins ranks 133. Before him are Sucheta Kriplani, Fritz Szepan, Manuel A. Odría, Willem Marinus Dudok, Anna Q. Nilsson, and Adolph Gottlieb. After him are Berdi Kerbabayev, Margit Slachta, Peter Revson, Georgette Heyer, Egon Wellesz, and Axel Cadier.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Holger Meins ranks 3,736 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Arnold (1901), Peter Brötzmann (1941), Adolf Martens (1850), Theodore Levitt (1925), Felix Draeseke (1835), and Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708). After him are Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal (1810), Christine Kirch (1697), Theo Adam (1926), Joseph Helffrich (1890), Rosi Mittermaier (1950), and Jan Boeckhorst (1604).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Holger Meins ranks 108. Before him are Rolf Hoppe (1930), Corinna Harfouch (1954), Gustav Knuth (1901), Otto Waalkes (1948), Jean-Marc Barr (1960), and Irm Hermann (1942). After him are Nur Fettahoğlu (1980), Anton Diffring (1916), Friedrich Ludwig Schröder (1744), Petra Schürmann (1933), Albert Bassermann (1867), and Mathieu Carrière (1950).

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Television and Movie Roles

A German Youth
(archive material)
At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist capitalism and a state apparatus in which they believed they saw fascist tendencies. This generation included journalist Ulrike Meinhof, lawyer Horst Mahler, filmmaker Holger Meins as well as students Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader.
Feb 7th 20157 / 10
Subjektitüde
A concise blast of feminist film making, Sander's first film is a tense yet playful four minute short that dissects a typical urban scene at a bus stop on a busy street in Berlin.
Jan 1st 19675 / 10
Johnson & Co. and the Campaign Against Poverty
Clearly influenced by Brecht and Jean-Marie Straub, criticizes the reduction of human relations to economic relations as well as the US imperialism in Vietnam.
Jan 1st 19684 / 10