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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 49,801 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Wolfgang Koeppen is the 4,518th most popular writer (down from 4,049th in 2019), the 4,074th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,571st in 2019) and the 271st most popular German Writer.

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  • 46.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wolfgang Koeppen ranks 4,518 out of 5,755. Before him are Jens Bjørneboe, Sergei Lukyanenko, Adolf Brand, Hadiya Davletshina, Peter Härtling, and Ángel Ganivet. After him are Nestor Kukolnik, Gabriela Adameșteanu, Sofia Yablonska, M. Ageyev, Helen Thomas, and Virginie Despentes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Wolfgang Koeppen ranks 253. Before him are Josef Čtyřoký, Willy Hansen, Rolf Singer, Benedicto de Moraes Menezes, Bart Bok, and V. J. Sukselainen. After him are Joseph Höffner, Petre Steinbach, Jan Diddens, David Smith, Klavdiya Shulzhenko, and Arthur Rudolph. Among people deceased in 1996, Wolfgang Koeppen ranks 199. Before him are Jurandir de Freitas, Johan Kraag, Jon Pertwee, Zainab Biisheva, José Sasía, and Alfredo Nobre da Costa. After him are Nnamdi Azikiwe, Petre Steinbach, Robert Nisbet, Antonio Creus, Roger Lapébie, and Harry Andersson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Koeppen ranks 4,074 out of 6,142. Before him are Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1749), Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels (1673), Charlotte Auerbach (1899), Jens Weißflog (1964), Adolf Brand (1874), and Peter Härtling (1933). After him are Curtis Bernhardt (1899), Joseph Höffner (1906), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), Alice Salomon (1872), Tomer Sisley (1974), and Richard Schorr (1867).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Wolfgang Koeppen ranks 271. Before him are Hilde Domin (1909), Hans Werner Richter (1908), Tankred Dorst (1925), Kito Lorenc (1938), Adolf Brand (1874), and Peter Härtling (1933). After him are Karl Leberecht Immermann (1796), Johann Gottfried Seume (1763), Ludwig Thoma (1867), Ludwig Bechstein (1801), Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680), and Hermann Kant (1926).

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