WRITER

Siegfried Kracauer

1889 - 1966

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Siegfried Kracauer (; German: [ˈkʁakaʊ̯ɐ]; February 8, 1889 – November 26, 1966) was a German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist. He has sometimes been associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Siegfried Kracauer has received more than 280,380 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Siegfried Kracauer is the 1,276th most popular writer (up from 1,322nd in 2019), the 1,282nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,371st in 2019) and the 82nd most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 280k

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  • 59.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Theory of film
Motion pictures, Filmtheorie, Cinéma
1960
From Caligari to Hitler
History, History and criticism, Motion picture
From the back cover: "The thesis of this unusually interesting book is that the German films of the twenties were filled with premonitions of the German totalitarianism of the thirties: that Hitler arose as the resolution of psychological dilemmas which had been reflected in the German movies and which accounted for both their greatness and their decline.... Dr. Kracauer illustrates his theme by a readable account of the evolution of the German film industry and the creation of the masterpieces.... The book's premise, of course, is that the films of a nation irresistibly disclose its dominant psychological dispositions.... This is an extraordinarily fruitful and stimulating approach." -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 'The Nation' "This is an important book. It is important to the film student and researcher, important to the student of foreign affairs, but over and beyond that, it is important to anyone interested in the relationship of a society to its art." -- 'Theater Arts'
1947
Jacques Offenbach und das Paris seiner Zeit
Composers, Biography, Civilization
1938
Die Angestellten aus dem neuesten Deutschland
1930

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Over the past year Siegfried Kracauer has had the most page views in the with 27,759 views, followed by German (24,001), and French (5,888). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Portuguese (66.12%), Occitan (59.27%), and Esperanto (57.73%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Siegfried Kracauer ranks 1,276 out of 7,302. Before him are Erskine Caldwell, Edmond François Valentin About, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Marcus Minucius Felix, Robert Sheckley, and Chūya Nakahara. After him are Matthias Flacius, Akka Mahadevi, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Antipater of Sidon, and Paul Scarron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Siegfried Kracauer ranks 47. Before him are Otto Georg Thierack, Olave Baden-Powell, Philip Noel-Baker, Richard Réti, Hannes Kolehmainen, and Hans-Jürgen Stumpff. After him are Hannah Höch, Lyubov Popova, Frank Lentini, Erik Jan Hanussen, Vera Mukhina, and Stanislav Kosior. Among people deceased in 1966, Siegfried Kracauer ranks 43. Before him are Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Alfred Naujocks, Lao She, Charlotte Cooper, Hannes Kolehmainen, and Battista Farina. After him are Erwin Piscator, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Elizabeth Arden, Frank Lentini, Jisaburō Ozawa, and L. E. J. Brouwer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Siegfried Kracauer ranks 1,282 out of 7,253. Before him are Werner Haase (1900), Walter Dornberger (1895), Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1680), Ernst Lindemann (1894), Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany (1262), and Til Schweiger (1963). After him are Erwin Piscator (1893), Theobald Boehm (1794), Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1854), Paul Langerhans (1847), John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg (1589), and Constantin Carathéodory (1873).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Siegfried Kracauer ranks 82. Before him are Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875), Radegund (518), Theodor Storm (1817), Johann Peter Eckermann (1792), Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586), and Wilhelm Weitling (1808). After him are Jakob Wassermann (1873), Widukind of Corvey (925), Lina Heydrich (1911), Kurt Tucholsky (1890), Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736), and Joachim Fest (1926).

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