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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 34,666 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Peter Hacks is the 5,836th most popular writer (down from 5,364th in 2019), the 1,159th most popular biography from Poland (down from 1,029th in 2019) and the 145th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 35k

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  • 52.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Peter Hacks ranks 5,836 out of 7,302. Before him are Léon Frapié, Chaz Bono, Timrava, Sven Delblanc, Mirdza Ķempe, and M. Scott Peck. After him are Wadih Sa'adeh, Hannu Salama, John of Worcester, Louise Bennett-Coverley, Akiva Goldsman, and Robinson Jeffers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Peter Hacks ranks 494. Before him are Dave Power, Lloyd Ruby, Allen Stack, Karin Söder, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, and Albert Salmi. After him are Walter Haummer, Aleksandr Ivanov, Juan Rodríguez, Jeanne Cooper, Nina Otkalenko, and William Smith. Among people deceased in 2003, Peter Hacks ranks 306. Before him are Jan-Just Bos, Curt Hennig, Valentin Gavrilov, Sven Fahlman, Carol Shields, and Bruno Boni. After him are Zagir Ismagilov, Trevor Goddard, Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur, José Manuel Pesudo, Jean Lucas, and Sita Ram Goel.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Peter Hacks ranks 1,159 out of 1,694. Before him are Walter Migula (1863), Anna Held (1872), Klaus Töpfer (1938), Zbigniew Gut (1949), Edyta Górniak (1972), and Artur Boruc (1980). After him are Janusz Kupcewicz (1955), Hans Sturm (1935), Józef Kałuża (1896), Ewa Lipska (1945), Maksymilian Gierymski (1846), and Salomon Bochner (1899).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Peter Hacks ranks 145. Before him are Anna Louisa Karsch (1722), Stanisław Barańczak (1946), Willi Apel (1893), Antoni Słonimski (1895), Julia Hartwig (1921), and Miron Białoszewski (1922). After him are Ewa Lipska (1945), Kazimierz Brodziński (1791), Narcyza Żmichowska (1819), Leon Kruczkowski (1900), Leszek Engelking (1955), and Maria Janion (1926).

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