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Wolfgang Koeppen

1906 - 1996

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Wolfgang Arthur Reinhold Koeppen (23 June 1906 – 15 March 1996) was a German novelist and one of the best known German authors of the postwar period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Koeppen has received more than 53,107 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Wolfgang Koeppen is the 4,787th most popular writer (down from 4,504th in 2019), the 4,531st most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,061st in 2019) and the 286th most popular German Writer.

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  • 53k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wolfgang Koeppen ranks 4,787 out of 7,302. Before him are Yann Martel, John D. MacDonald, Florence Delay, Michel Déon, Henrik Nordbrandt, and Alina Fernández. After him are Yuriy Fedkovych, Carine Roitfeld, Betje Wolff, Ruth Maier, Hannah More, and Myriam Harry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Wolfgang Koeppen ranks 278. Before him are Victor Hasselblad, Thelma Todd, Gerardo Romero, Virginia Hall, Wilfred Jackson, and Hans Walzhofer. After him are Vilmos Kohut, Carl Benjamin Boyer, Jānis Ivanovs, Buddy Adler, Galo Plaza, and Arthur Rudolph. Among people deceased in 1996, Wolfgang Koeppen ranks 221. Before him are Gabriel Alonso, Karol Jokl, Vagn Holmboe, Audrey Munson, Charles Jewtraw, and Jurandir de Freitas. After him are Bernard Edwards, Robert Nisbet, Bai Yang, Bibi Besch, Maati Bouabid, and Adelaide Lambert.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Koeppen ranks 4,531 out of 7,253. Before him are Aleida Assmann (1947), Michael Gwisdek (1942), Peter Scholl-Latour (1924), Mirjam Pressler (1940), Josef Bradl (1918), and Albert Bernhard Frank (1839). After him are Erik Spiekermann (1947), Alwin Mittasch (1869), Sheryl Lee (1967), Andreas Krieger (1965), Wolfgang Unzicker (1925), and Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau (1837).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Wolfgang Koeppen ranks 286. Before him are Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867), Joseph Meyer (1796), Louise Otto-Peters (1819), Hans Werner Richter (1908), Peter Scholl-Latour (1924), and Mirjam Pressler (1940). After him are Cordelia Edvardson (1929), Marie Hankel (1844), Reiner Kunze (1933), Bruno Frank (1887), Konrad von Würzburg (1225), and Klaus Groth (1819).

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