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Edgar Hilsenrath

1926 - 2018

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Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926 – December 30, 2018) was a German-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor. He wrote several fictional novels that gave an unvarnished view of the Holocaust which were partly based on his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. His main works are Night, The Nazi and the Barber, and The Story of the Last Thought. After fleeing Nazi Germany in 1944, he lived in Palestine and France, before settling in New York City in 1951 where he lived for 24 years and published his first novels. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edgar Hilsenrath is the 3,072nd most popular writer (up from 3,163rd in 2019), the 3,247th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,296th in 2019) and the 199th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Edgar Hilsenrath ranks 3,072 out of 7,302. Before him are René Daumal, Jean Rhys, Karel Havlíček Borovský, Miodrag Bulatović, Aleksey Pisemsky, and Stephenie Meyer. After him are Venedikt Yerofeyev, Claribel Alegría, Consort Ban, Jim Carroll, Josephine Tey, and Laxmi Prasad Devkota.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Edgar Hilsenrath ranks 207. Before him are Choi Eun-hee, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Anne McCaffrey, Vitaly Vorotnikov, Moshe Sanbar, and Bernard Agré. After him are Hans-Jochen Vogel, Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, Yvonne Furneaux, Friedrich Cerha, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, and Pat Flaherty. Among people deceased in 2018, Edgar Hilsenrath ranks 184. Before him are Walter Mischel, Henri Namphy, Tommy Lawrence, M. Karunanidhi, Roger Bannister, and Lydia Clarke. After him are Claribel Alegría, Juan Bautista Agüero, Stan Mikita, Evelyn Berezin, Juraj Herz, and Lewis Gilbert.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Edgar Hilsenrath ranks 3,249 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul van Dyk (1971), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (1443), Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1633), Werner Goldberg (1919), Johann Krieger (1651), and William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1593). After him are Gretel Bergmann (1914), Prince Christoph of Hesse (1901), Josef Ludwig von Armansperg (1787), Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1644), Hans-Joachim Stuck (1951), and Prince Johann Georg of Saxony (1869).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Edgar Hilsenrath ranks 199. Before him are Heinrich Vogeler (1872), Georg Herwegh (1817), Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (1759), Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801), Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (1733), and Friedrich Wolf (1888). After him are Johann Heinrich Voss (1751), Günter Wallraff (1942), Lily Braun (1865), Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (1826), Ursula Kuczynski (1907), and Walter Hasenclever (1890).

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