WRITER

Tankred Dorst

1925 - 2017

Tankred Dorst

Tankred Dorst (19 December 1925 – 1 June 2017) was a German playwright and storyteller. Dorst lived and worked in Munich. His farces, parables, one-act-plays and adaptations were inspired by the theatre of the absurd and the works of Ionesco, Giraudoux and Beckett. His monumental drama Merlin oder das wüste Land, which was premiered in 1981 in Düsseldorf, has been compared to Goethe's Faust. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tankred Dorst is the 4,571st most popular writer (up from 4,885th in 2019), the 4,467th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,610th in 2019) and the 273rd most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tankred Dorst ranks 4,571 out of 7,302. Before him are Sue Grafton, Cecco Angiolieri, Musa Anter, Hulda Garborg, Grace Aguilar, and Jean-Richard Bloch. After him are Bill Lawrence, Mazo de la Roche, Leopold Staff, Angelo de Gubernatis, Yevhen Hrebinka, and Pierre Michon.

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Sue Grafton
1940 - 2017
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 4,565
Cecco Angiolieri
1260 - 1312
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 4,566
Musa Anter
1920 - 1992
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 4,567
Hulda Garborg
1862 - 1934
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 4,568
Grace Aguilar
1816 - 1847
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 4,569
Jean-Richard Bloch
1884 - 1947
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 4,570
Tankred Dorst
1925 - 2017
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 4,571
Bill Lawrence
1968 - Present
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 4,572
Mazo de la Roche
1879 - 1961
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 4,573
Leopold Staff
1878 - 1957
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 4,574
Angelo de Gubernatis
1840 - 1913
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 4,575
Yevhen Hrebinka
1812 - 1848
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 4,576
Pierre Michon
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 4,577

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Tankred Dorst ranks 321. Before him are Theodore Levitt, Attilâ İlhan, Duane Hanson, Eugene Garfield, John Shepherd-Barron, and Gérard Kango Ouédraogo. After him are Francisco Rodrigues, Laura Ashley, Yury Trifonov, Carlo Di Palma, Marlen Khutsiev, and Nat Lofthouse. Among people deceased in 2017, Tankred Dorst ranks 349. Before him are Issam Zahreddine, Eduard Mudrik, Jean Vuarnet, Abdelmajid Dolmy, Sue Grafton, and Eugene Garfield. After him are Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Vladimir Petrov, Redha Malek, András Kovács, Liam Cosgrave, and Michael Ogio.

Others Born in 1925

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Theodore Levitt
ECONOMIST
1925 - 2006
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 315
Attilâ İlhan
WRITER
1925 - 2005
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 316
Duane Hanson
SCULPTOR
1925 - 1996
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 317
Eugene Garfield
COMPUTER SCIENTIST
1925 - 2017
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 318
John Shepherd-Barron
INVENTOR
1925 - 2010
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 319
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo
POLITICIAN
1925 - 2014
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 320
Tankred Dorst
WRITER
1925 - 2017
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 321
Francisco Rodrigues
SOCCER PLAYER
1925 - 1988
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 322
Laura Ashley
DESIGNER
1925 - 1985
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 323
Yury Trifonov
WRITER
1925 - 1981
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 324
Carlo Di Palma
FILM DIRECTOR
1925 - 2004
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 325
Marlen Khutsiev
FILM DIRECTOR
1925 - 2019
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 326
Nat Lofthouse
SOCCER PLAYER
1925 - 2011
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 327

Others Deceased in 2017

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Issam Zahreddine
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1961 - 2017
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 343
Eduard Mudrik
SOCCER PLAYER
1939 - 2017
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 344
Jean Vuarnet
SKIER
1933 - 2017
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 345
Abdelmajid Dolmy
SOCCER PLAYER
1953 - 2017
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 346
Sue Grafton
WRITER
1940 - 2017
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 347
Eugene Garfield
COMPUTER SCIENTIST
1925 - 2017
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 348
Tankred Dorst
WRITER
1925 - 2017
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 349
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall
POLITICIAN
1953 - 2017
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 350
Vladimir Petrov
HOCKEY PLAYER
1947 - 2017
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 351
Redha Malek
POLITICIAN
1931 - 2017
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 352
András Kovács
FILM DIRECTOR
1925 - 2017
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 353
Liam Cosgrave
POLITICIAN
1920 - 2017
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 354
Michael Ogio
POLITICIAN
1942 - 2017
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 355

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Tankred Dorst ranks 4,470 out of 7,253. Before him are Julius Benedict (1804), Reinhard Hardegen (1913), Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1774), Bernd Storck (1963), Karl Ferdinand Sohn (1805), and Wolfram Löwe (1945). After him are Alfred Keller (1882), Wolf Kahler (1940), Wilhelm Camphausen (1818), Albert Ladenburg (1842), Louise Otto-Peters (1819), and Heinrich Schomburgk (1885).

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Julius Benedict
COMPOSER
1804 - 1885
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 4,464
Reinhard Hardegen
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1913 - 2018
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 4,465
Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
POLITICIAN
1774 - 1825
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 4,466
Bernd Storck
SOCCER PLAYER
1963 - Present
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 4,467
Karl Ferdinand Sohn
PAINTER
1805 - 1867
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 4,468
Wolfram Löwe
SOCCER PLAYER
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 4,469
Tankred Dorst
WRITER
1925 - 2017
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 4,470
Alfred Keller
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1882 - 1974
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 4,471
Wolf Kahler
ACTOR
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 4,472
Wilhelm Camphausen
PAINTER
1818 - 1885
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 4,473
Albert Ladenburg
CHEMIST
1842 - 1911
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 4,474
Louise Otto-Peters
WRITER
1819 - 1895
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 4,475
Heinrich Schomburgk
TENNIS PLAYER
1885 - 1965
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 4,476