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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 43,791 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Tankred Dorst is the 4,476th most popular writer (down from 4,055th in 2019), the 4,052nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,574th in 2019) and the 267th most popular German Writer.

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  • 18

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  • 3.96

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  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tankred Dorst ranks 4,476 out of 5,755Before him are Leo Buscaglia, Kostas Karyotakis, Samo Chalupka, Stanislav Stratiev, Andrea Maffei, and Gavino Ledda. After him are Leonard Howell, Kito Lorenc, Boualem Sansal, Aagje Deken, Besiki, and Philippe Claudel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Tankred Dorst ranks 308Before him are Zoot Sims, Charlie Byrd, Tony Benn, Nanni Loy, Geoffrey Burbidge, and Cara Williams. After him are Carla Del Poggio, Colette Marchand, Antonio Puchades, Irina Arkhipova, Ritwik Ghatak, and Gunther Schuller. Among people deceased in 2017, Tankred Dorst ranks 317Before him are Abdur Rahman Biswas, Giuliano Sarti, Smail Hamdani, Attilio Nicora, Katalin Szőke, and Armando Calderón Sol. After him are Kito Lorenc, Peter Härtling, Rance Howard, Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Dina Merrill, and Eduard Mudrik.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Tankred Dorst ranks 4,052 out of 6,142Before him are Renate Stecher (1950), Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1682), Ruth Leuwerik (1924), Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794), Martin Chemnitz (1522), and August Wilhelm Iffland (1759). After him are Paul Rudolf von Bilguer (1815), Kito Lorenc (1938), Tom Wlaschiha (1973), Heinrich Burger (1881), Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798), and Bernd Stange (1948).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Tankred Dorst ranks 267Before him are Peter Scholl-Latour (1924), Johann von Rist (1607), Klaus Groth (1819), Carl Sternheim (1878), Hilde Domin (1909), and Hans Werner Richter (1908). After him are Kito Lorenc (1938), Adolf Brand (1874), Peter Härtling (1933), Wolfgang Koeppen (1906), Karl Leberecht Immermann (1796), and Johann Gottfried Seume (1763).