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Wolf Erlbruch

1948 - 2022

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Wolf Erlbruch (30 June 1948 – 11 December 2022) was a German illustrator and writer of children's books, who became professor at several universities. He combined various techniques for the artwork in his books, including cutting and pasting, drawing, and painting. His style was sometimes surrealist and is widely copied inside and outside Germany. Some of his storybooks have challenging themes such as death and the meaning of life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wolf Erlbruch is the 5,146th most popular writer (down from 5,017th in 2019), the 4,829th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,694th in 2019) and the 306th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Wolf Erlbruch ranks 5,146 out of 7,302. Before him are Gerbrand Bredero, Jean Cau, Anna Louisa Karsch, Arvo Valton, Stephen Hunter, and Francis Bebey. After him are Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, István Fekete, David Crane, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević, and Carme Riera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Wolf Erlbruch ranks 504. Before him are Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, Abdulqawi Yusuf, Glenn Branca, Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov, A Martinez, and Patrick Moraz. After him are Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, Carme Riera, Enriqueta Basilio, Annette Charles, Patricia Hill Collins, and Régis Wargnier. Among people deceased in 2022, Wolf Erlbruch ranks 419. Before him are Manuel Esquivel, Magomedali Magomedov, Rıdvan Bolatlı, József Tóth, Rustam Ibragimbekov, and George Cohen. After him are Orlando de la Torre, Bill Nieder, Dagny Carlsson, Jan Nowicki, Manuel Duarte, and Barbara Ehrenreich.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolf Erlbruch ranks 4,832 out of 7,253. Before him are Hubert Hahne (1935), Paul Matschie (1861), Horst Wolter (1942), Eugen Baumann (1846), Erich Beer (1946), and Ingrid Lotz (1934). After him are Günther Herrmann (1939), Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1948), Manfred Kaiser (1929), Martin Noth (1902), Alice Salomon (1872), and Rosemary Murphy (1925).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Wolf Erlbruch ranks 306. Before him are Botho Strauß (1944), Adolf Friedrich von Schack (1815), Walter Kempowski (1929), Hermann Kant (1926), Johann Gottfried Seume (1763), and Sarah Kirsch (1935). After him are Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1948), Wilhelm Geiger (1856), Jakob van Hoddis (1887), Peter Scholl-Latour (1924), Jenny Erpenbeck (1967), and Friedrich von Hagedorn (1708).

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