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Reiner Kunze

1933 - Today

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Reiner Kunze (born 16 August 1933 in Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge, Saxony) is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact countries invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Reiner Kunze has received more than 41,856 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Reiner Kunze is the 4,196th most popular writer (down from 3,902nd in 2019), the 3,875th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,477th in 2019) and the 247th most popular German Writer.

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  • 42k

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  • 48.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Reiner Kunze ranks 4,196 out of 5,755. Before him are Albert Ehrenstein, Alexander Tairov, Juan José Millás, Hjalmar Bergman, Hart Crane, and Petras Cvirka. After him are Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, Zhang Jie, Maeve Binchy, Merab Kostava, Karl von Holtei, and Walter J. Ong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Reiner Kunze ranks 278. Before him are Wayne Rogers, Najah al-Attar, René Felber, Geraldo Majella Agnelo, Nicholas Pileggi, and Haruo Remeliik. After him are Bob Bondurant, Suchinda Kraprayoon, Alfredo Landa, Janet Baker, Sergio Pitol, and Otar Chiladze.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Reiner Kunze ranks 3,875 out of 6,142. Before him are Dietrich Kraiss (1889), Herbert Runge (1913), Sheryl Lee (1967), Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718), Princess Marie of Hanover (1849), and Princess Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1827). After him are Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (1798), Felix Dahn (1834), Heinrich Boie (1794), Gabriele Seyfert (1948), Rob Pilatus (1965), and Curt Siodmak (1902).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Reiner Kunze ranks 247. Before him are Maximilian Harden (1861), Robert Jungk (1913), Philipp Nicolai (1556), Georg Sauerwein (1831), Lily Braun (1865), and Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1948). After him are Felix Dahn (1834), Curt Siodmak (1902), Johann Beckmann (1739), Leopold Andrian (1875), Adolf Friedrich von Schack (1815), and Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (1613).

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