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WRITER

Stefan Heym

1913 - 2001

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Helmut Flieg was a German writer, known by his pseudonym Stefan Heym (pronounced [ˈʃtɛfan ˈhaɪm] ). He lived in the United States and trained at Camp Ritchie, making him one of the Ritchie Boys of World War II. In 1952, he returned to his home to the part of his native Germany which was, from 1949 to 1990, the German Democratic Republic (GDR, "East Germany"). He published works in English and German at home and abroad, and despite longstanding criticism of the GDR remained a committed socialist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stefan Heym has received more than 126,164 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Stefan Heym is the 2,617th most popular writer (down from 2,125th in 2019), the 2,695th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,155th in 2019) and the 168th most popular German Writer.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.43

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  • 4.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stefan Heym ranks 2,617 out of 5,755Before him are Bhanubhakta Acharya, Robert Penn Warren, Sylvain Maréchal, Zhou Daguan, Sophron, and Ibn Taghribirdi. After him are Mikhail Artsybashev, Fritz Mauthner, Bekir Çoban-zade, Banana Yoshimoto, Charlie Kaufman, and Herbert Read.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Stefan Heym ranks 133Before him are Eugene Odum, Albert Cossery, Motoo Tatsuhara, Tadao Horie, Alfonso López Michelsen, and Alexander Kotov. After him are Gig Young, George Koval, William P. Rogers, Milivoj Ašner, Walter Andreas Schwarz, and René Schneider. Among people deceased in 2001, Stefan Heym ranks 102Before him are Kristina Söderbaum, Jason Miller, Ken Tyrrell, Tamara Smirnova, Gregory Corso, and Josef Klaus. After him are Georgy Vitsin, William P. Rogers, Robert Enrico, Ken Aston, Nigel Hawthorne, and Rehavam Ze'evi.

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In Germany

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Stefan Heym ranks 168Before him are Ursula Kuczynski (1907), Mina Witkojc (1893), August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796), Martin Walser (1927), George Mosse (1918), and Armin T. Wegner (1886). After him are Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808), Albert of Aix (1060), Alfred Andersch (1914), Malwida von Meysenbug (1816), Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739), and Matthias Claudius (1740).