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Carl Zuckmayer

1896 - 1977

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Carl Zuckmayer (27 December 1896 – 18 January 1977) was a German writer and playwright. His older brother was the pedagogue, composer, conductor, and pianist Eduard Zuckmayer. His first two dramas were failures. In 1929, he wrote the script for the movie Der blaue Engel, for which he received the Georg Büchner Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Zuckmayer is the 2,134th most popular writer (down from 2,035th in 2019), the 2,315th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,170th in 2019) and the 140th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carl Zuckmayer ranks 2,134 out of 7,302. Before him are Lewis Mumford, Anyte of Tegea, Harold Bloom, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti, and Richard Aldington. After him are Cangrande I della Scala, Inger Christensen, Jón Arason, Joan Didion, Lu Ji, and Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Carl Zuckmayer ranks 95. Before him are Jimmy Doolittle, Mir Jafar Baghirov, Iona Yakir, Morarji Desai, Zygmunt Berling, and Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia. After him are Faina Ranevskaya, Fayzulla Khodzhayev, Pierre Jeanneret, Carl Ludwig Siegel, Boris Podolsky, and William A. Wellman. Among people deceased in 1977, Carl Zuckmayer ranks 82. Before him are Džemal Bijedić, Sid Atkinson, Oskar Klein, Carlo Biotti, Edmond Hamilton, and Nicolae Kovács. After him are Yevgenia Ginzburg, Arsenio Erico, Wilhelm Boger, Jacques Tourneur, Erroll Garner, and Scott Bradley.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Zuckmayer ranks 2,316 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm, Duke of Oldenburg (1754), Albert Bormann (1902), Christian II, Elector of Saxony (1583), Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1779), Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), and August Leskien (1840). After him are Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787), Jan Assmann (1938), Erich Rudorffer (1917), Henry Oldenburg (1619), Otto Henry, Elector Palatine (1502), and Dieter Müller (1954).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Carl Zuckmayer ranks 140. Before him are Gustav Schwab (1792), Wolfgang Borchert (1921), Waldemar Bonsels (1880), Armin T. Wegner (1886), Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918), and Jordan of Saxony (1190). After him are Erich Mühsam (1878), Judith Kerr (1923), Wilhelm Raabe (1831), Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (1613), Rahel Varnhagen (1771), and Rudolf Rocker (1873).

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