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Top 100 Writers in Germany

The most publicly visible writers in Germany.

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The most famous writers in Germany right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Michael Schumacher	Germany	Writers	91.0	18.7
#2	—	Friedrich Schiller	Germany	Writers	88.8	12.0
#3	—	Thomas Mann	Germany	Writers	85.2	7.9
#4	—	Heinrich Heine	Germany	Writers	82.3	1.6
#5	—	Peter Paul Rubens	Germany	Writers	81.7	0.2
#6	—	Anne Frank	Germany	Writers	81.3	0.0
#7	—	Eckhart Tolle	Germany	Writers	79.7	2.4
#8	—	Hermann Hesse	Germany	Writers	79.4	0.0
#9	—	Bertolt Brecht	Germany	Writers	78.2	0.0
#10	—	Herta Müller	Germany	Writers	74.7	4.6
#11	—	Rainer Maria Rilke	Germany	Writers	73.4	0.0
#12	—	Novalis	Germany	Writers	73.1	10.8
#13	—	Erich Maria Remarque	Germany	Writers	71.7	0.0
#14	—	Nelly Sachs	Germany	Writers	70.8	9.8
#15	—	WestBam	Germany	Writers	69.0	4.5
#16	—	Hildegard of Bingen	Germany	Writers	68.8	0.0
#17	—	Klemens von Metternich	Germany	Writers	68.4	15.0
#18	—	Charles Bukowski	Germany	Writers	67.9	0.6
#19	—	Friedrich Hölderlin	Germany	Writers	67.2	3.4
#20	—	Klaus Kinski	Germany	Writers	66.2	6.9
#21	—	Wilhelm von Humboldt	Germany	Writers	65.5	1.4
#22	—	Ambrose	Germany	Writers	65.1	0.0
#23	—	Eugen Drewermann	Germany	Writers	64.3	0.5
#24	—	Shmuel Yosef Agnon	Germany	Writers	64.0	0.0
#25	—	Heinrich von Kleist	Germany	Writers	63.8	2.2
#26	—	Heinz Guderian	Germany	Writers	63.5	12.3
#27	—	TH Torsten Haß	Germany	Writers	63.5	1.9
#28	—	Oswald Spengler	Germany	Writers	63.4	0.0
#29	—	Gerd Dudenhöffer	Germany	Writers	62.6	0.9
#30	—	Roland Emmerich	Germany	Writers	61.8	5.0
#31	—	Karl May	Germany	Writers	61.5	12.0
#32	—	Erich Raeder	Germany	Writers	61.2	15.0
#33	—	Heinrich Mann	Germany	Writers	61.2	0.0
#34	—	Theodor Fontane	Germany	Writers	60.6	1.4
#35	—	Jean Paul	Germany	Writers	60.5	3.1
#36	—	Paul Gerhardt	Germany	Writers	60.1	10.0
#37	—	PS Patrick Süskind	Germany	Writers	60.0	5.7
#38	—	Pope Clement II	Germany	Writers	59.9	3.0
#39	—	James Krüss	Germany	Writers	59.7	10.0
#40	—	Traudl Junge	Germany	Writers	59.6	2.8
#41	—	Anne Catherine Emmerich	Germany	Writers	59.3	10.2
#42	—	Martin Niemöller	Germany	Writers	59.3	0.0
#43	—	Helmuth von Moltke the Elder	Germany	Writers	59.1	0.5
#44	—	Thomas à Kempis	Germany	Writers	59.0	0.0
#45	—	Multatuli	Germany	Writers	59.0	10.5
#46	—	Michael Ende	Germany	Writers	58.9	0.0
#47	—	Bernd Eichinger	Germany	Writers	58.9	17.3
#48	—	Georg Büchner	Germany	Writers	58.9	0.1
#49	—	Franka Potente	Germany	Writers	58.9	0.0
#50	—	Friedrich Fröbel	Germany	Writers	58.9	25.0
#51	—	Athanasius Kircher	Germany	Writers	58.7	10.0
#52	—	Golo Mann	Germany	Writers	58.6	4.6
#53	—	Erich Kästner	Germany	Writers	58.5	0.0
#54	—	Ilija Trojanow	Germany	Writers	58.5	19.3
#55	—	Cornelia Funke	Germany	Writers	58.5	5.1
#56	—	Jürgen Vogel	Germany	Writers	58.3	3.9
#57	—	Otfried Preußler	Germany	Writers	58.3	15.5
#58	—	Leopold von Ranke	Germany	Writers	58.2	0.0
#59	—	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Germany	Writers	58.2	0.7
#60	—	Philipp Mainländer	Germany	Writers	58.2	4.2
#61	—	Daniel Kehlmann	Germany	Writers	58.1	6.2
#62	—	Hans-Ulrich Rudel	Germany	Writers	58.0	0.0
#63	—	Else Lasker-Schüler	Germany	Writers	58.0	9.2
#64	—	Max Müller	Germany	Writers	58.0	12.9
#65	—	August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben	Germany	Writers	58.0	9.0
#66	—	Felix Steiner	Germany	Writers	58.0	1.3
#67	—	Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria	Germany	Writers	58.0	4.2
#68	—	Leonie Swann	Germany	Writers	57.9	10.0
#69	—	Frank Wedekind	Germany	Writers	57.9	12.0
#70	—	Christoph Martin Wieland	Germany	Writers	57.8	11.7
#71	—	Hans Magnus Enzensberger	Germany	Writers	57.8	11.5
#72	—	Wilhelm Busch	Germany	Writers	57.8	1.9
#73	—	Manfred Rommel	Germany	Writers	57.6	1.6
#74	—	Prince Claus of the Netherlands	Germany	Writers	57.5	0.0
#75	—	Corinne Hofmann	Germany	Writers	57.5	23.5
#76	—	Ulrich von Hutten	Germany	Writers	57.4	15.0
#77	—	Gottfried Benn	Germany	Writers	57.3	4.5
#78	—	Juliane Koepcke	Germany	Writers	57.2	0.0
#79	—	Klaus Mann	Germany	Writers	57.2	0.2
#80	—	Mario Adorf	Germany	Writers	57.0	0.0
#81	—	Max von der Grün	Germany	Writers	57.0	10.0
#82	—	Otto Ernst Remer	Germany	Writers	56.9	1.2
#83	—	Walter Schellenberg	Germany	Writers	56.8	0.0
#84	—	Romano Guardini	Germany	Writers	56.8	4.4
#85	—	Uwe Johnson	Germany	Writers	56.8	9.0
#86	—	Victoria of Baden	Germany	Writers	56.7	2.7
#87	—	Stefan Heym	Germany	Writers	56.7	8.5
#88	—	Gertrude the Great	Germany	Writers	56.7	5.7
#89	—	Peter Weiss	Germany	Writers	56.6	4.0
#90	—	Clemens Brentano	Germany	Writers	56.6	3.3
#91	—	Judith Kerr	Germany	Writers	56.6	12.6
#92	—	Ludwig Beck	Germany	Writers	56.5	0.0
#93	—	Sebastian Brant	Germany	Writers	56.4	22.9
#94	—	Johannes R. Becher	Germany	Writers	56.4	4.3
#95	—	Jenny Erpenbeck	Germany	Writers	56.2	1.5
#96	—	Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine	Germany	Writers	56.2	0.3
#97	—	Bettina von Arnim	Germany	Writers	56.2	2.8
#98	—	Sebastian Kneipp	Germany	Writers	56.2	6.0
#99	—	Christa Wolf	Germany	Writers	56.2	0.0
#100	—	Heinz Erhardt	Germany	Writers	56.1	2.2

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