WRITER

Rolf Hochhuth

1931 - 2020

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Rolf Hochhuth (German: [ʁɔlf ˈhoːxˌhuːt] ; 1 April 1931 – 13 May 2020) was a German author and playwright, best known for his 1963 drama The Deputy, which insinuates Pope Pius XII's indifference to Hitler's extermination of the Jews, and he remained a controversial figure both for his plays and other public comments and for his 2005 defense of British Holocaust denier David Irving. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rolf Hochhuth has received more than 116,039 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Rolf Hochhuth is the 2,465th most popular writer (up from 2,996th in 2019), the 2,608th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,035th in 2019) and the 156th most popular German Writer.

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  • 54.63

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.42

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  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The representative
Drama
1963
Soldaten
Drama, German drama, World War, 1939-1945
1967
Stellvertreter
Drama
1964
Der Stellvertreter
Drama, German language materials
1963
Guerillas
Subversion, Texts, German language
1970
Sommer 14
Drama, World War, 1914-1918
1989

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rolf Hochhuth ranks 2,465 out of 7,302. Before him are Gottschalk of Orbais, Winston Groom, William Beckford, Alois Musil, María Kodama, and Annie Proulx. After him are Ariwara no Narihira, Dick Francis, Christopher Priest, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Valentin Kataev, and Andrey Kurbsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Rolf Hochhuth ranks 175. Before him are Dominic Chianese, Robert Morris, Moshé Mizrahi, Dominique Lapierre, Mwai Kibaki, and Roger Piantoni. After him are Philip Baker Hall, Jan Troell, Lars Hörmander, Ita Ever, Manolo Escobar, and Ola Ullsten. Among people deceased in 2020, Rolf Hochhuth ranks 169. Before him are Olof Thunberg, Robert Conrad, Christophe, Jackie Stallone, Jörn Donner, and Winston Groom. After him are Armando Manzanero, Nur Hassan Hussein, Zizi Jeanmaire, Bill Gates Sr., Bernard Stiegler, and Linda Cristal.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rolf Hochhuth ranks 2,608 out of 7,253. Before him are Franz Reuleaux (1829), Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1560), Gottschalk of Orbais (805), Fritz Wepper (1941), Erich Ribbeck (1937), and Master Francke (1380). After him are Hans Thoma (1839), Rudi Altig (1937), Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718), Charlotte von Stein (1742), Nicodemus Tessin the Elder (1615), and Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Rolf Hochhuth ranks 156. Before him are Armin T. Wegner (1886), Jakub Bart-Ćišinski (1856), Edith Hamilton (1867), Charlotte Buff (1753), Johann Karl August Musäus (1735), and Gottschalk of Orbais (805). After him are Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739), Wilhelm Raabe (1831), Ursula Kuczynski (1907), Stefan Heym (1913), Heinrich Hoffmann (1809), and Heinz G. Konsalik (1921).

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