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Ralf Rothmann

1953 - Today

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Ralf Rothmann (born 10 May 1953, in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German novelist, poet, and dramatist. His novels have been translated into several languages, with Knife Edge (Messers Schneide), Young Light (Junges Licht), Fire Doesn't Burn (Feuer brennt nicht), To Die in Spring (Im Frühling sterben) and The God of that Summer (Der Gott jenes Sommers) being translated into English. The main subjects of his work are the bourgeois and proletarian realities of life in the Ruhr area (e.g., Stier, Wäldernacht, Milch und Kohle and Junges Licht) as well as Berlin (Flieh mein Freund, Hitze, Feuer brennt nicht), with an autobiographically colored focus on alienation, the attempt to escape these situations, and common solitude. With the major novels Im Frühling sterben, Der Gott jenes Sommers and Die Nacht unterm Schnee, Rothmann goes back to the time of the Second World War and explores the horrors for the individual. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Ralf Rothmann is the 6,635th most popular writer (down from 6,517th in 2024), the 5,866th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,771st in 2019) and the 361st most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Ralf Rothmann ranks 6,635 out of 7,302. Before him are Michael Pollan, David Malouf, Olga Slavnikova, Rebecca Yarros, Tana French, and Lualhati Bautista. After him are Charles Stross, Denis Johnson, Hajime Kanzaka, Wolf Haas, Horton Foote, and Phyllis A. Whitney.

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Among people born in 1953, Ralf Rothmann ranks 614. Before him are Vadim Abramov, Jerzy Rybicki, John Bellamy Foster, Chen Danqing, Jimmy McCulloch, and Yang Jung-mo. After him are Suleiman Nyambui, Antonio Guzmán, Jan Davis, Janusz Wójcik, Géza Szőcs, and Lynn Whitfield.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ralf Rothmann ranks 5,869 out of 7,253. Before him are Ömer Toprak (1989), Deniz Aytekin (1978), Frank Baumann (1975), Roger Cicero (1970), Laura Siegemund (1988), and Daniel Farke (1976). After him are Natalia Wörner (1967), Gerhard Weinberg (1928), Denis Johnson (1949), Petra Rossner (1966), Martin Sonneborn (1965), and Sybille Bedford (1911).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Ralf Rothmann ranks 361. Before him are Andreas Eschbach (1959), Sebastian Fitzek (1971), Peter Wohlleben (1964), Kathrin Schmidt (1958), Graciano Rocchigiani (1963), and Nele Neuhaus (1967). After him are Denis Johnson (1949), Sybille Bedford (1911), Sibylle Lewitscharoff (1954), Ingo Schulze (1962), Wolf Blitzer (1948), and Thomas Brussig (1964).

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