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Margarete Buber-Neumann

1901 - 1989

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Margarete Buber-Neumann (née Thüring; 21 October 1901 – 6 November 1989) was a German writer. As a senior Communist Party of Germany member and Gulag survivor, she was turned into a staunch anti-communist. She wrote the famous memoir Under Two Dictators, which begins with her arrest in Moscow during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, followed by her imprisonment as a political prisoner in both the Soviet Gulag and the Nazi concentration camp system, after she was handed over by the NKVD to the Gestapo during World War II. Buber-Neumann was also known for having testified in the so-called "Trial of the Century" about the Kravchenko Affair in France. In 1980, she was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the West Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margarete Buber-Neumann is the 1,892nd most popular writer (up from 1,949th in 2019), the 2,080th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,081st in 2019) and the 119th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Margarete Buber-Neumann ranks 1,892 out of 7,302. Before her are Luigi Illica, Ğabdulla Tuqay, Pjetër Bogdani, Émile Augier, João de Barros, and Rómulo Gallegos. After her are Hincmar, Shirley Jackson, Arthur Machen, Sulpicia, Branko Ćopić, and Frederik Pohl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Margarete Buber-Neumann ranks 97. Before her are Marino Marini, Hermann Priess, Stella Adler, Henri Cochet, Miklós Nyiszli, and Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria. After her are Franciszek Gajowniczek, Hellmuth Stieff, René Pleven, Gino Cervi, Syama Prasad Mukherjee, and Eiji Tsuburaya. Among people deceased in 1989, Margarete Buber-Neumann ranks 81. Before her are Barbara W. Tuchman, Hassan Fathy, Carlos Arias Navarro, Hans Hartung, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, and Nicolás Guillén. After her are Arseny Tarkovsky, Hibari Misora, Mihály Lantos, Kateb Yacine, Franz Binder, and Sergei Sobolev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Margarete Buber-Neumann ranks 2,081 out of 7,253. Before her are Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1688), Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839), Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg (1318), Bruno Streckenbach (1902), Friedrich Wieck (1785), and Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783). After her are Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow (1755), Princess Charlotte of Württemberg (1807), Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia (1332), Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1591), Felix Bernstein (1878), and Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Margarete Buber-Neumann ranks 119. Before her are Stéphane Hessel (1917), Eduard Mörike (1804), Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797), Hans F. K. Günther (1891), Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871), and Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773). After her are Salvian (405), Paul Gerhardt (1607), Adolph Freiherr Knigge (1752), Jakub Bart-Ćišinski (1856), Ludwig Uhland (1787), and Basil Valentine (1394).

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