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Carl Sternheim

1878 - 1942

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Carl Sternheim (born William Adolph Carl Francke; 1 April 1878 – 3 November 1942) was a German playwright and short story writer. One of the major exponents of German Expressionism, he especially satirized the moral sensibilities of the emerging German middle class during the Wilhelmine period. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Sternheim is the 4,085th most popular writer (up from 4,215th in 2019), the 4,104th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,155th in 2019) and the 248th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carl Sternheim ranks 4,085 out of 7,302. Before him are Laura Bridgman, Yuriy Venelin, Léo Malet, Nossis, Mark Frost, and Michel Carré. After him are Pippa Middleton, Agnieszka Osiecka, David Allen, Maximilian Harden, Adam of Saint Victor, and Dimitrija Demeter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Carl Sternheim ranks 168. Before him are Ada Adler, Hans Carossa, Karl Hofer, Chen Qimei, Agner Krarup Erlang, and Nikolai Avksentiev. After him are Gaston Alibert, Princess Maria di Grazia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Richard Goldschmidt, František Janda-Suk, Leonhard Kaupisch, and Konstantinos Logothetopoulos. Among people deceased in 1942, Carl Sternheim ranks 170. Before him are Oskari Mantere, George Andrew Reisner, Alberto Franchetti, Dorothea Klumpke, Zsigmond Móricz, and Nicholas Adontz. After him are Valentin Loos, Zofia Zamenhof, José Díaz, Alexandre Volkoff, Sergey Chaplygin, and Romà Forns.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Sternheim ranks 4,106 out of 7,253. Before him are Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774), Friedrich Tietjen (1834), Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (1935), Helmuth Rilling (1933), John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1621), and Georg Adolf Erman (1806). After him are Albert Bassermann (1867), Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (1714), Georg Marcgrave (1610), Gerhard von Schwerin (1899), Theodor Loos (1883), and Joseph Höffner (1906).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Carl Sternheim ranks 248. Before him are Leopold Andrian (1875), Otto Ludwig (1813), Hans Carossa (1878), Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807), Herbert Achternbusch (1938), and Emmy Hennings (1885). After him are Maximilian Harden (1861), Murad Wilfried Hofmann (1931), Ken Adam (1921), Irmgard Keun (1905), Cordelia Edvardson (1929), and Johann Georg von Hahn (1811).

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