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Peter Hacks

1928 - 2003

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Peter Hacks (21 March 1928 – 28 August 2003) was a German playwright, author, and essayist. Hacks was born in Breslau (Wrocław), Lower Silesia. Displaced by World War II, Hacks settled in Munich in 1947, where he made acquaintance with Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Hacks has received more than 31,622 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Hacks is the 5,383rd most popular writer, the 1,029th most popular biography from Poland and the 135th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 32k

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  • 43.31

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.69

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  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Peter Hacks ranks 5,383 out of 5,755Before him are Helene Hanff, Robert Edmond Grant, Qaysin Quli, Jorge Enrique Adoum, Hallgrímur Helgason, and Antonín Sova. After him are Avram Davidson, Brigitte Reimann, Dorrit Willumsen, Stephen Spender, Diane Ackerman, and Sarah Waters.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Peter Hacks ranks 426Before him are Antonio Ozores, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Sheila Jordan, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Karin Söder, and Ed Macauley. After him are Arthur Foulkes, Wanda Hendrix, Marcos Calderón, André Strappe, Earl Holliman, and Ivan Kizimov. Among people deceased in 2003, Peter Hacks ranks 266Before him are Hedy Schlunegger, Donald Nicol, Vladimír Vašíček, Valentin Gavrilov, Yun Hyon-seok, and German Apukhtin. After him are Grigory Mkrtychan, Éva Janikovszky, Suzy Parker, Curt Hennig, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Maurice Kouandété.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Peter Hacks ranks 1,029 out of 1,454Before him are Jacob Bronowski (1908), Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (1950), Adam Darski (1977), Günther Ortmann (1916), Andrzej Grabowski (1952), and Janusz Zakrzeński (1936). After him are Albrecht Weber (1825), Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer (1858), Edyta Górniak (1972), Władysław Rubin (1917), Grzegorz Krychowiak (1990), and Dariusz Michalczewski (1968).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Peter Hacks ranks 135Before him are Jan Lechoń (1899), Julia Hartwig (1921), Lina Morgenstern (1830), Antoni Lange (1862), Kazimierz Brandys (1916), and Christoph Hein (1944). After him are Leon Kruczkowski (1900), Stanisław Barańczak (1946), Leszek Engelking (1955), Ewa Lipska (1945), Andrzej Stasiuk (1960), and Paweł Huelle (1957).