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Reiner Kunze

1933 - Today

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Reiner Kunze (born 16 August 1933 in Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge, Saxony) is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact countries invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring. He had to publish his work under various pseudonyms. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Reiner Kunze is the 4,712th most popular writer (up from 4,859th in 2019), the 4,554th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,577th in 2019) and the 283rd most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Reiner Kunze ranks 4,712 out of 7,302. Before him are Marta Kauffman, Reynold A. Nicholson, Vladimir Gilyarovsky, François Tristan l'Hermite, Panas Myrny, and Yoshiki Tanaka. After him are Benoîte Groult, Wang Guowei, Jan Kjærstad, Miljenko Jergović, Valentín Paz-Andrade, and František Langer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Reiner Kunze ranks 355. Before him are Arif Malikov, Valentina Rastvorova, Alex Cord, Maurinho, Miriam Stevenson, and Nate Brooks. After him are Mark Forest, Abdul Rahman Munif, Hiroki Kosai, Mike Larrabee, Gino Pivatelli, and Knut Johannesen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Reiner Kunze ranks 4,557 out of 7,253. Before him are Helmut Recknagel (1937), Werner Krämer (1940), Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857), Rudi Assauer (1944), Sidonie of Saxony (1518), and Wilhelm Killing (1847). After him are Michael, Prince of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1946), Evelin Jahl (1956), Martha Mödl (1912), Gustav Schuft (1878), Hauschka (1966), and Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz (1834).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Reiner Kunze ranks 283. Before him are Mira Lobe (1913), Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901), August Spies (1855), E. Marlitt (1825), Felix Dahn (1834), and Hedwig Dohm (1831). After him are Johann von Rist (1607), Heinrich Zschokke (1771), Hilde Domin (1909), Marie Hankel (1844), Günter Kunert (1929), and Wolfgang Koeppen (1906).

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