WRITER

Franz Xaver Kroetz

1946 - Today

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Franz Xaver Kroetz (German: [fʁant͡s ˈksaː.vɐ kʁœt͡s] ; born 25 February 1946) is a German author, playwright, actor and film director. He achieved great success beginning in the early 1970s. Persistent, Farmyard, and Request Concert, all written in 1971, are some of the works conventionally associated with Kroetz. Kroetz is part of a generation of playwrights who modified the critical folk-piece, emphasizing in his works of the early 1970s the underside of West Germany's affluence through realistic portrayals of the lives of the poor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Xaver Kroetz is the 5,657th most popular writer (down from 5,232nd in 2019), the 5,158th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,846th in 2019) and the 329th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Franz Xaver Kroetz ranks 5,657 out of 7,302. Before him are C. L. R. James, David Peoples, Kate Wilhelm, John Masefield, Fran Saleški Finžgar, and Charles Montagu Doughty. After him are Walter de la Mare, Kazimierz Brandys, Adolf Bartels, Miron Białoszewski, Grace Paley, and Scott O'Dell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Franz Xaver Kroetz ranks 633. Before him are Franco Malerba, John Urry, Valdomiro, Ram Vilas Paswan, Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, and Mordehai Milgrom. After him are Aruna Irani, Igor Starygin, Eduard Novák, Terry Kath, Richard Blumenthal, and Dean Cundey.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Xaver Kroetz ranks 5,161 out of 7,253. Before him are Curt Backeberg (1894), Katerina Tikhonova (1986), Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg (1813), Margot Eskens (1936), Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (1971), and Ernst Krebs (1906). After him are Joy Fleming (1944), Matthias Reim (1957), Martha Genenger (1911), Hanns Kräly (1884), Rainer Zitelmann (1957), and Max Lorenz (1939).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Franz Xaver Kroetz ranks 329. Before him are Günter de Bruyn (1926), Gorch Fock (1880), Fredric Wertham (1895), Irmtraud Morgner (1933), Karl Leberecht Immermann (1796), and Ludwig Ganghofer (1855). After him are Adolf Bartels (1862), H. A. Rey (1898), Erwin Strittmatter (1912), Horst Faas (1933), Wilhelm Genazino (1943), and Timur Vermes (1967).

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