WRITER

Wolfgang Borchert

1921 - 1947

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Wolfgang Borchert (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈbɔʁçɐt]; 20 May 1921 – 20 November 1947) was a German author and playwright whose work was strongly influenced by his experience of dictatorship and his service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. His work is among the best-known examples of the Trümmerliteratur movement in post-World War II Germany. His most famous work is the drama Draußen vor der Tür (The Man Outside), which he wrote soon after the end of World War II. His works are uncompromising on the issues of humanity and humanism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Borchert has received more than 185,273 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfgang Borchert is the 1,926th most popular writer (down from 1,658th in 2019), the 2,059th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,757th in 2019) and the 125th most popular German Writer.

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.69

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Notable Works

The man outside
Translations into English, German War stories, One-act plays, German
1952
Traurigen Geranien und andere Geschichten aus dem Nachlass
Fiction, German Short stories, Social life and customs
1973
Die traurigen Geranien
1962
Selected short stories
German language, Readers
1964
Draussen vor der Tür, und ausgewählte Erzählungen
1956
Das Gesamtwerk
Stories / Erzählungen Lyrics / Gedichte
1949

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wolfgang Borchert ranks 1,926 out of 7,302. Before him are Michel de Ghelderode, Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani, Edward Young, Josef Lada, Isaac Alfasi, and Philippe Quinault. After him are Tawfiq al-Hakim, Al-Busiri, Éric Zemmour, John of Ruusbroec, Pierre Gringore, and Giovanni Botero.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Wolfgang Borchert ranks 124. Before him are Stein Rokkan, Manitas de Plata, Deanna Durbin, Philippe de Gaulle, Branko Stanković, and Gitta Sereny. After him are Pierre Clostermann, César Baldaccini, Maurice Yaméogo, Eugenio Coșeriu, James Whitmore, and Jaroslav Drobný. Among people deceased in 1947, Wolfgang Borchert ranks 77. Before him are Ludwig Fischer, Paul P. Harris, Helmuth von Pannwitz, Heinrich Schwarz, William Moulton Marston, and Lucjan Żeligowski. After him are Grace Moore, Victor Goldschmidt, Friedrich Paschen, Karol Świerczewski, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Lilly Reich.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Borchert ranks 2,059 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1727), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), Fredrik Pacius (1809), Walter Heitz (1878), Bernd Hölzenbein (1946), and Johann Christoph Bach (1671). After him are Friedrich Kellner (1885), Johannes Sturm (1507), Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1691), Hans Globke (1898), Rudolf II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1307), and Jordan of Saxony (1190).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Wolfgang Borchert ranks 125. Before him are Theodor Nöldeke (1836), Katia Mann (1883), Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579), Paul Gerhardt (1607), Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797), and Handrij Zejler (1804). After him are Jordan of Saxony (1190), Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901), Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871), Yehuda Amichai (1924), Rudolf Rocker (1873), and Carl Zuckmayer (1896).

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