WRITER

Tankred Dorst

1925 - 2017

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Tankred Dorst (19 December 1925 – 1 June 2017) was a German playwright and storyteller. Dorst lived and worked in Munich. His farces, parables, one-act-plays and adaptations were inspired by the theatre of the absurd and the works of Ionesco, Giraudoux and Beckett. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tankred Dorst has received more than 46,695 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Tankred Dorst is the 4,885th most popular writer (down from 4,462nd in 2019), the 4,609th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,039th in 2019) and the 294th most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 47k

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  • 47.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Merlin, oder, Das wüste Land
Adaptations, Arthurian romances, Drama
1981
Korbes
1988
Eiszeit
1973
Kleiner Mann, was nun?
1972
Toller
Drama, In literature, Toller, Ernst, 1893-1939, in fiction, drama, poetry
1968
Die Münchner Räterrepublik
History
1966

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tankred Dorst ranks 4,885 out of 7,302. Before him are E. Marlitt, Valentin Conrart, Yordan Yovkov, Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Ivan Kavaleridze, and Zainab Biisheva. After him are George Washington Williams, Imants Ziedonis, Susan Blackmore, Robert Charles Wilson, Dmytro Pavlychko, and Alexander Abusch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Tankred Dorst ranks 348. Before him are Antonio Puchades, Gunther Schuller, Dany Dauberson, Vladimir Shainsky, John List, and András Toma. After him are Anne-Marie Colchen, Luis Alberto Monge, Angelo Conterno, Alain Peyrefitte, Shirley Strickland, and Mal Waldron. Among people deceased in 2017, Tankred Dorst ranks 348. Before him are Paul J. Weitz, Roberto Ferreiro, Karl Stotz, Vladimir Shainsky, Robert Guillaume, and Josef Musil. After him are Carlos Humberto Romero, Anne-Marie Colchen, Halit Akçatepe, Leonid Kharitonov, Wu Wenjun, and Danuta Szaflarska.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Tankred Dorst ranks 4,609 out of 7,253. Before him are Jürgen Pommerenke (1953), E. Marlitt (1825), Heinrich Ewald (1803), Anita Rée (1885), Kurt Ahrens Jr. (1940), and Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825). After him are Friedrich Gogarten (1887), Francis Buchholz (1954), Prince John August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1704), Rudolf Scharping (1947), Otto Modersohn (1865), and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Tankred Dorst ranks 294. Before him are Marie Hankel (1844), Reiner Kunze (1933), Bruno Frank (1887), Konrad von Würzburg (1225), Klaus Groth (1819), and E. Marlitt (1825). After him are Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927), Heinrich Christian Boie (1744), Adolf Friedrich von Schack (1815), Mira Lobe (1913), Mato Kósyk (1853), and Adolf Brand (1874).

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