WRITER

Ilse Aichinger

1921 - 2016

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Ilse Aichinger (1 November 1921 – 11 November 2016) was an Austrian writer known for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ilse Aichinger has received more than 119,174 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Ilse Aichinger is the 2,517th most popular writer (down from 2,515th in 2019), the 535th most popular biography from Austria (up from 537th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Austrian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

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  • 54.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Kleist, Moos, Fasane
Die grössere Hoffnung
Zu keiner Stunde
Nachricht vom tag
Der Gefesselte
Verschenkter Rat

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ilse Aichinger ranks 2,517 out of 7,302Before her are Okakura Kakuzō, Ewald Christian von Kleist, Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Donald E. Westlake, Bella Rosenfeld, and Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil. After her are Hermann Sudermann, Suman Pokhrel, T. H. White, Praxilla, Bernard Werber, and Margaret Fuller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Ilse Aichinger ranks 160Before her are Amedeo Amadei, Jackie Stallone, Kocheril R. Narayanan, Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Lionel Terray, and Jair da Rosa Pinto. After her are Heinz G. Konsalik, Luis García Berlanga, Dinko Šakić, Georges Mathieu, Andrzej Munk, and Gaston Reiff. Among people deceased in 2016, Ilse Aichinger ranks 159Before her are Götz George, Rudi Altig, Curtis Hanson, Ferdinand Kübler, Richard Adams, and Peter Shaffer. After her are Bill Nunn, Artur Fischer, Frano Selak, Jadranka Stojaković, Papa Wemba, and Mark Taimanov.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Ilse Aichinger ranks 535 out of 1,424Before her are Ingrid Haebler (1926), Marlen Haushofer (1920), Ulrich von Liechtenstein (1200), Johann Strauss III (1866), Ernst Marischka (1893), and Maximilian Grabner (1905). After her are Max Nettlau (1865), Michael Mayr (1864), Margaret of Austria, Electress of Saxony (1416), Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria (1874), Walter Mischel (1930), and Princess Marie Louise of Hanover (1879).

Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Ilse Aichinger ranks 39Before her are Gitta Sereny (1921), Raul Hilberg (1926), Pauline von Metternich (1836), Johann Nestroy (1801), Marlen Haushofer (1920), and Ulrich von Liechtenstein (1200). After her are Heimito von Doderer (1896), Dezső Kosztolányi (1885), Paula von Preradović (1887), Johannes Mario Simmel (1924), Erich Fried (1921), and Nathan Birnbaum (1864).