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Inge Borkh

1921 - 2018

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Inge Borkh (born Ingeborg Simon, 26 May 1921 – 26 August 2018) was a German operatic dramatic soprano. She was first based in Switzerland, where she received international attention when she appeared in the first performance in German of Menotti's The Consul, in Basel, in 1951. In 1952, Borkh became a member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Inge Borkh has received more than 72,691 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Inge Borkh is the 921st most popular singer (up from 983rd in 2019), the 3,814th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,737th in 2019) and the 41st most popular German Singer.

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  • 73k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Inge Borkh ranks 921 out of 4,381. Before her are Patience Dabany, G-Dragon, Fréhel, Elaine Paige, Inva Mula, and Jackie Wilson. After her are Daniel Lavoie, Johnny Nash, Biff Byford, Blixa Bargeld, Arthur Brown, and MC Hammer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Inge Borkh ranks 228. Before her are Kazimierz Górski, Gaston Rébuffat, Gunnar Eriksson, Sune Andersson, Imre Kovács, and Archduchess Charlotte of Austria. After her are Bengt Danielsson, Jean Richard, Saul Zaentz, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Simin Daneshvar, and Alexander Kemurdzhian. Among people deceased in 2018, Inge Borkh ranks 225. Before her are Sergey Litvinov, Juan Bautista Agüero, Stanley Cavell, Kim Yong-chun, Mrinal Sen, and Shehu Shagari. After her are Domenico Losurdo, Otis Rush, Phan Văn Khải, Morris Halle, Cecil Taylor, and Robert Spaemann.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Inge Borkh ranks 3,814 out of 7,253. Before her are Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1731), Alexander Kanoldt (1881), Friedel Lutz (1939), Bernhard Romberg (1767), Friedrich Ludwig Schröder (1744), and Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835). After her are Cosmas Damian Asam (1686), Johann Georg Halske (1814), Wolfgang Kleff (1946), Blixa Bargeld (1959), Walter Kempowski (1929), and Ludowika Jakobsson (1884).

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Among SINGERS In Germany

Among singers born in Germany, Inge Borkh ranks 41. Before her are Roy Black (1943), Hermann Prey (1929), Renate Müller (1906), Reinhard Mey (1942), Liane Augustin (1927), and Theo Adam (1926). After her are Blixa Bargeld (1959), Elisabeth Schumann (1888), Walter Andreas Schwarz (1913), Irmgard Seefried (1919), Margot Hielscher (1919), and Josepha Weber (1759).

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