WRITER

Michael Ende

1929 - 1995

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Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende (12 November 1929 – 28 August 1995) was a German writer of fantasy and children's fiction. He is known for his epic fantasy The Neverending Story (with its 1980s film adaptation and a 1995 animated television adaptation); other well-known works include Momo and Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Ende has received more than 787,439 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Michael Ende is the 319th most popular writer (up from 331st in 2019), the 272nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 293rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Writer.

Michael Ende is most famous for his book, The Neverending Story.

Memorability Metrics

  • 790k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Das Traumfresserchen
1978
Momo
1973
Lenchens Geheimnis
1991
El ponche de los deseos
1989
The night of wishes
Fantasy
Will Beelzebub Preposteror and his evil aunt, Tyrannia Vampirella concoct a fiendish plan and destroy the world by the stroke of midnight? Or can Mauricio and Jacob save the world? By the author of The Never Ending Story.
1992

Page views of Michael Endes by language

Over the past year Michael Ende has had the most page views in the with 252,245 views, followed by English (97,611), and Japanese (67,720). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (163.36%), Volapük (147.79%), and Piedmontese (114.14%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Michael Ende ranks 319 out of 7,302. Before him are Roger Martin du Gard, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume de Machaut, Henri Charrière, Ludovico Ariosto, and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. After him are Czesław Miłosz, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Archilochus, Friedrich Schlegel, J. M. Coetzee, and France Prešeren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Michael Ende ranks 17. Before him are Sergio Leone, Hassan II of Morocco, Imre Kertész, Irene Papas, Jacques Brel, and Yayoi Kusama. After him are Jean Baudrillard, Frank Gehry, Oriana Fallaci, Peter Higgs, Mohamed Al-Fayed, and Max von Sydow. Among people deceased in 1995, Michael Ende ranks 6. Before him are Yitzhak Rabin, Emil Cioran, Gilles Deleuze, Juan Manuel Fangio, and Eugene Wigner. After him are Mikhail Botvinnik, Emmanuel Levinas, Adolf Butenandt, Gunnar Nordahl, Konrad Zuse, and Dean Martin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Michael Ende ranks 272 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilm Hosenfeld (1895), John of Austria (1547), Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744), Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876), Wilhelm Pieck (1876), and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1691). After him are Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928), Wilhelm Frick (1877), Lothar Matthäus (1961), Adolf Dassler (1900), Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758), and Max Horkheimer (1895).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Michael Ende ranks 20. Before him are Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Jacob Grimm (1785), Nelly Sachs (1891), Paul Heyse (1830), Heinrich von Kleist (1777), and Ernst Jünger (1895). After him are Friedrich Schlegel (1772), Wilhelm Grimm (1786), Karl May (1842), Einhard (770), Heinrich Mann (1871), and Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170).

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