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Anna Seghers

1900 - 1983

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Anna Seghers (German: [ˈana ˈzeːɡɛʁs] ; born Anna Reiling, 19 November 1900 – 1 June 1983), is the pseudonym of German writer Anna Reiling, who was notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born into a Jewish family and married to a Hungarian Communist, Seghers escaped Nazi-controlled territory through wartime France. She was granted a visa and gained ship's passage to Mexico, where she lived in Mexico City (1941–47). She returned to Europe after the war, living in West Berlin (1947–50), which was occupied by Allied forces. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Seghers is the 778th most popular writer (up from 915th in 2019), the 771st most popular biography from Germany (up from 864th in 2019) and the 44th most popular German Writer.

Anna Seghers was a German communist who wrote novels, short stories, and essays. She is most famous for her novel "The Seventh Cross" which was published in 1939.

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Among writers, Anna Seghers ranks 778 out of 7,302. Before her are Agathias, Aubrey Beardsley, William Beckford, Henry Fielding, H. L. Mencken, and Arrigo Boito. After her are Ninon de l'Enclos, Valerius Maximus, Otto of Freising, Achim von Arnim, N. F. S. Grundtvig, and Ben Jonson.

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Among people born in 1900, Anna Seghers ranks 43. Before her are Pak Hon-yong, Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Karl Wolff, Arno Breker, Choe Yong-gon, and Chiune Sugihara. After her are Jiro Miyake, Edward Stettinius Jr., Walther Wenck, Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Julien Green, and Zelda Fitzgerald. Among people deceased in 1983, Anna Seghers ranks 26. Before her are Raymond Aron, Ulf von Euler, Meyer Lansky, Alfred Tarski, George Cukor, and Haldan Keffer Hartline. After her are Aleksandar Ranković, Gloria Swanson, George O. Abell, Luis Monti, Mercè Rodoreda, and John Fante.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anna Seghers ranks 771 out of 7,253. Before her are George V of Hanover (1819), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752), Werner Mölders (1913), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (1883), and Albert of Brandenburg (1490). After her are Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (1914), Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645), Nicolaus Zinzendorf (1700), Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1784), Thomas Anders (1963), and Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1570).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Anna Seghers ranks 44. Before her are Georg Büchner (1813), Clemens Brentano (1778), Elisabeth of Wied (1843), Hugo Ball (1886), Bernhard Schlink (1944), and Christoph Martin Wieland (1733). After her are Achim von Arnim (1781), Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724), Wilhelm Hauff (1802), Karl Harrer (1890), Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622), and Thietmar of Merseburg (975).

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