WRITER

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 49,133 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Reiner Kunze is the 4,860th most popular writer (down from 4,183rd in 2019), the 4,577th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,864th in 2019) and the 289th most popular German Writer.

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  • 49k

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  • 55.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Reiner Kunze ranks 4,860 out of 7,302. Before him are Bedros Tourian, Philippe Claudel, Pashko Vasa, Qurratulain Hyder, Dulce María Loynaz, and Andrei Mureșanu. After him are Bruno Frank, Len Deighton, Konrad von Würzburg, Candy Barr, Fran Levstik, and Alan Woods.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Reiner Kunze ranks 352. Before him are Yelena Gorchakova, William Kahan, Valentin Bubukin, Don Thompson, Ira Murchison, and Bengt Berndtsson. After him are Imants Ziedonis, Leonid Kharitonov, Basdeo Panday, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Renée Colliard, and Richard Williams.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Reiner Kunze ranks 4,577 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Hofmann (1824), Wilhelm Camphausen (1818), Wolfgang Rolff (1959), Johannes Wislicenus (1835), Marie Hankel (1844), and Willy Birgel (1891). After him are Serge Gnabry (1995), Walter Brack (1880), Bruno Frank (1887), Martin Chemnitz (1522), Konrad von Würzburg (1225), and Dora Doll (1922).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Reiner Kunze ranks 289. Before him are Hans Werner Richter (1908), Peter Scholl-Latour (1924), Mirjam Pressler (1940), Wolfgang Koeppen (1906), Cordelia Edvardson (1929), and Marie Hankel (1844). After him are Bruno Frank (1887), Konrad von Würzburg (1225), Klaus Groth (1819), E. Marlitt (1825), Tankred Dorst (1925), and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927).

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