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Ralf Rothmann

1953 - Today

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Ralf Rothmann (born 10 May 1953, in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German novelist, poet, and dramatist. His novels have been translated into several languages, with Knife Edge (Messers Schneide), Young Light (Junges Licht), Fire Doesn't Burn (Feuer brennt nicht), To Die in Spring (Im Frühling sterben) and The God of that Summer (Der Gott jenes Sommers) being translated into English. The main subjects of his work are the bourgeois and proletarian realities of life in the Ruhr area (e.g., Stier, Wäldernacht, Milch und Kohle and Junges Licht) as well as Berlin (Flieh mein Freund, Hitze, Feuer brennt nicht), with an autobiographically colored focus on alienation, the attempt to escape these situations, and common solitude. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ralf Rothmann has received more than 29,622 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ralf Rothmann is the 6,517th most popular writer (down from 5,969th in 2019), the 5,772nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,088th in 2019) and the 359th most popular German Writer.

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  • 48.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ralf Rothmann ranks 6,517 out of 7,302. Before him are Marian Keyes, Colson Whitehead, Ransom Riggs, Kiera Cass, Sarah Winnemucca, and Sidney Lee. After him are Deborah Ellis, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Charles Stross, Martin Österdahl, John Gribbin, and Laurell K. Hamilton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Ralf Rothmann ranks 580. Before him are The Honky Tonk Man, Benny Brown, Jeff Kober, Christopher Fairbank, Kay Stenshjemmet, and Joaquim Rafael Branco. After him are Benno Magnusson, Ferenc Kocsis, Yang Jung-mo, Abdelkader Horr, Guido Kratschmer, and Gerhard Thiele.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ralf Rothmann ranks 5,772 out of 7,253. Before him are Kim Petras (1992), Marco Pezzaiuoli (1968), Sabine John (1957), Ute Geweniger (1964), Wolfgang Mager (1952), and Marcus Nispel (1963). After him are Jörg Woithe (1963), Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich (1960), Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886), Siegbert Horn (1950), Karoline Herfurth (1984), and Katrin Dörre-Heinig (1961).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Ralf Rothmann ranks 359. Before him are Wolfdietrich Schnurre (1920), Sybille Bedford (1911), Wolf Blitzer (1948), Graciano Rocchigiani (1963), Jenny Erpenbeck (1967), and Denis Johnson (1949). After him are Sibylle Lewitscharoff (1954), Nele Neuhaus (1967), Judith Hermann (1970), Ingo Schulze (1962), Thomas Brussig (1964), and Marius von Mayenburg (1972).

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