1925 - 2017
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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Among writers, Tankred Dorst ranks 4,476 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1924 - 1998
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 4,470
1896 - 1928
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 4,471
1812 - 1883
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 4,472
1941 - 2000
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 4,473
1798 - 1885
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 4,474
1938 - Present
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 4,475
1925 - 2017
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 4,476
1898 - 1981
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 4,477
1938 - 2017
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 4,478
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 4,479
1741 - 1804
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 4,480
1750 - 1791
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 4,481
1962 - Present
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 4,482
Among people born in 1925, Tankred Dorst ranks 308. Before 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 317. Before 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.
1925 - 1985
HPI: 47.28
Rank: 302
1925 - 1999
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 303
1925 - 2014
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 304
1925 - 1995
HPI: 47.14
Rank: 305
1925 - 2010
HPI: 47.14
Rank: 306
1925 - 2021
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 307
1925 - 2017
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 308
1925 - 2010
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 309
1925 - 2015
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 310
1925 - 2013
HPI: 46.94
Rank: 311
1925 - 2010
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 312
1925 - 1976
HPI: 46.87
Rank: 313
1925 - 2015
HPI: 46.87
Rank: 314
1926 - 2017
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 311
1933 - 2017
HPI: 47.24
Rank: 312
1930 - 2017
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 313
1937 - 2017
HPI: 47.16
Rank: 314
1935 - 2017
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 315
1948 - 2017
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 316
1925 - 2017
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 317
1938 - 2017
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 318
1933 - 2017
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 319
1928 - 2017
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 320
1935 - 2017
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 321
1923 - 2017
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 322
1939 - 2017
HPI: 46.83
Rank: 323
Among people born in Germany, Tankred Dorst ranks 4,052 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1950 - Present
HPI: 47.12
Rank: 4,046
1682 - 1736
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 4,047
1924 - 2016
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 4,048
1794 - 1866
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 4,049
1522 - Present
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 4,050
1759 - 1814
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 4,051
1925 - 2017
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 4,052
1815 - 1840
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 4,053
1938 - 2017
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 4,054
1973 - Present
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 4,055
1881 - 1942
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 4,056
1798 - 1868
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 4,057
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 4,058
Among writers born in Germany, Tankred Dorst ranks 267. Before 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).
1924 - 2014
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 261
1607 - 1667
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 262
1819 - 1899
HPI: 47.45
Rank: 263
1878 - 1942
HPI: 47.42
Rank: 264
1909 - 2006
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 265
1908 - 1993
HPI: 47.13
Rank: 266
1925 - 2017
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 267
1938 - 2017
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 268
1874 - 1945
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 269
1933 - 2017
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 270
1906 - 1996
HPI: 46.96
Rank: 271
1796 - 1840
HPI: 46.81
Rank: 272
1763 - 1810
HPI: 46.78
Rank: 273