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Erich Kästner

1899 - 1974

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Emil Erich Kästner (German: [ˈʔeːʁɪç ˈkɛstnɐ] ; 23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and Lisa and Lottie. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1960 for his autobiography Als ich ein kleiner Junge war. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in six separate years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erich Kästner is the 509th most popular writer (up from 604th in 2019), the 470th most popular biography from Germany (up from 570th in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Writer.

Erich Kästner is most famous for his children's book, The Adventures of Emil and the Detectives.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Erich Kästner ranks 509 out of 7,302Before him are Lesya Ukrainka, Paul Claudel, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Hector Malot, Edmondo De Amicis, and Thomas Paine. After him are Heinrich Mann, Isaac Babel, Mika Waltari, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Robert Walser, and Jostein Gaarder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Erich Kästner ranks 21Before him are Paul-Henri Spaak, László Bíró, Albert Claude, Iskander Mirza, Fred Astaire, and Paul Hermann Müller. After him are Miguel Ángel Asturias, Béla Guttmann, Georg von Békésy, Max Theiler, Suzanne Lenglen, and Adnan Menderes. Among people deceased in 1974, Erich Kästner ranks 20Before him are U Thant, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Baldur von Schirach, Nick Drake, Julius Evola, and David Oistrakh. After him are Rudolf Dassler, Imre Lakatos, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Darius Milhaud, Duke Ellington, and Jacob L. Moreno.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erich Kästner ranks 470 out of 7,253Before him are Fritz Todt (1891), Julius von Mayer (1814), Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911), Joachim Löw (1960), Ernst Busch (1885), and Ananda Mahidol (1925). After him are Herbert Kroemer (1928), Maria Alexandrovna (1824), Friedrich Fromm (1888), Heinrich Mann (1871), Konrad Zuse (1910), and Joachim Peiper (1915).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Erich Kästner ranks 27Before him are Heinrich von Kleist (1777), Karl May (1842), Wilhelm Grimm (1786), Einhard (770), Traudl Junge (1920), and Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170). After him are Heinrich Mann (1871), August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767), Jean Paul (1763), Ulrich von Hutten (1488), Patrick Süskind (1949), and Lion Feuchtwanger (1884).