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Rank
Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated quarterly.
Audience size
Estimated number of unique people in Germany who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.
Country share
Share of the global audience that is active in Germany. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.
Avg age
Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Germany, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.
Female share
Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Germany. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.
Ranking
| Rank | Audience | Audience size | Country share | Avg age | Female share | Subtype |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CCaroline Wahl | 1.5M | 85.6% | 43.9 | 68.6% | Author |
| 2 | SSarah, Duchess of York | 1.4M | 15.3% | 52.8 | 97.3% | Author |
| 3 | SSebastian Fitzek | 1.4M | 79.6% | 45.0 | 74.1% | Author |
| 4 | FFerdinand von Schirach | 1.2M | 84.7% | 41.9 | 63.2% | Author |
| 5 | SStephen King | 1.1M | 5.8% | 36.8 | 56.5% | Author |
| 6 | JJoachim Meyerhoff | 1.1M | 86.0% | 41.3 | 69.3% | Author |
| 7 | RRichard David Precht | 1M | 82.2% | 44.2 | 56.2% | Author |
| 8 | SSandra Navidi | 993k | 86.1% | 43.0 | 34.6% | Author |
| 9 | HHannah Arendt | 954k | 20.2% | 45.3 | 67.2% | Author |
| 10 | AAnne Frank | 933k | 5.6% | 39.1 | 68.4% | Author |
| 11 | CChris Kyle | 893k | 22.9% | 44.7 | 46.7% | Author |
| 12 | JJane Austen | 885k | 8.3% | 37.6 | 75.0% | Author |
| 13 | CCaroline Kennedy | 862k | 7.7% | 57.0 | 88.0% | Author |
| 14 | RRoland Trettl | 820k | 84.7% | 41.4 | 57.0% | Author |
| 15 | AAmal Clooney | 801k | 7.5% | 40.8 | 76.8% | Author |
| 16 | JJuli Zeh | 712k | 85.7% | 41.1 | 58.7% | Author |
| 17 | TThomas Mann | 707k | 35.3% | 36.2 | 60.9% | Author |
| 18 | BBastian Bielendorfer | 707k | 93.0% | 37.1 | 52.7% | Author |
| 19 | AAgatha Christie | 655k | 6.7% | 37.8 | 68.8% | Author |
| 20 | FFranz Kafka | 655k | 10.1% | 37.6 | 62.2% | Author |
| 21 | BBodo Wartke | 623k | 88.1% | 39.9 | 59.3% | Author |
| 22 | CCharlotte Link | 599k | 77.1% | 49.1 | 74.0% | Author |
| 23 | CCharles Dickens | 588k | 11.7% | 42.8 | 80.1% | Author |
| 24 | HHarlan Coben | 581k | 6.4% | 45.7 | 59.4% | Author |
| 25 | EErich von Däniken | 573k | 68.9% | 45.9 | 29.6% | Author |
| 26 | Ccolleen hoover | 573k | 8.4% | 34.5 | 72.3% | Author |
| 27 | CCornelia Funke | 571k | 89.4% | 47.3 | 65.2% | Author |
| 28 | NNele Neuhaus | 535k | 79.0% | 52.2 | 83.0% | Author |
| 29 | AAmanda Knox | 516k | 7.5% | — | — | Author |
| 30 | HHelen Keller | 514k | 4.1% | 52.3 | 46.5% | Author |
| 31 | HHeather Graham | 513k | 8.3% | 49.8 | 80.8% | Author |
| 32 | JJens Söring | 509k | 86.3% | 44.2 | 48.2% | Author |
| 33 | DDaniele Ganser | 494k | 69.2% | 44.4 | 47.4% | Author |
| 34 | DDan Brown | 491k | 9.2% | 38.6 | 62.8% | Author |
| 35 | Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre | 472k | 87.8% | 42.7 | 56.3% | Author |
| 36 | RRainer Maria Rilke | 458k | 37.0% | 44.9 | 69.7% | Author |
| 37 | RRosamunde Pilcher | 451k | 64.1% | 49.4 | 75.2% | Author |
| 38 | SStefano Zarrella | 443k | 85.5% | 41.7 | 71.7% | Author |
| 39 | CCandace Owens | 440k | 1.9% | 33.9 | 44.2% | Author |
| 40 | KKen Follett | 420k | 15.0% | 47.6 | 67.6% | Author |
| 41 | FFlorence Nightingale | 418k | 4.6% | 45.2 | 66.6% | Author |
| 42 | SStefan Zweig | 394k | 17.0% | 52.3 | 66.9% | Author |
| 43 | JJohann Wolfgang von Goethe | 378k | 34.7% | 42.8 | 59.7% | Author |
| 44 | KKlaus-Peter Wolf | 365k | 95.0% | 42.1 | 66.7% | Author |
| 45 | FFarah Pahlavi | 359k | 25.2% | 42.8 | 67.2% | Author |
| 46 | MMarkus Krall | 355k | 83.8% | 45.6 | 48.8% | Author |
| 47 | LLydia Benecke | 345k | 90.2% | 36.5 | 38.0% | Author |
| 48 | HHermann Hesse | 344k | 18.1% | 33.7 | 57.4% | Author |
| 49 | HHeinz Strunk | 332k | 89.5% | 37.1 | 46.0% | Author |
| 50 | FFrank Schätzing | 331k | 88.1% | 37.7 | 57.8% | Author |
| 51 | NNostradamus | 328k | 6.8% | 43.7 | 71.2% | Author |
| 52 | CCharles Darwin | 327k | 4.5% | 44.0 | 46.4% | Author |
| 53 | OOscar Wilde | 324k | 3.9% | 38.4 | 55.6% | Author |
| 54 | WWilliam Shakespeare | 317k | 2.7% | 39.3 | 53.0% | Author |
| 55 | EEdgar Allan Poe | 315k | 3.4% | 34.6 | 55.5% | Author |
| 56 | BBeatrix Potter | 305k | 12.7% | 42.4 | 52.7% | Author |
| 57 | GGeorge Orwell | 297k | 4.4% | 36.6 | 57.2% | Author |
| 58 | KKarin Slaughter | 297k | 12.4% | 45.7 | 72.2% | Author |
| 59 | CConfucius | 292k | 12.6% | 44.5 | 52.3% | Author |
| 60 | LLinus Torvalds | 288k | 13.8% | 46.0 | 27.9% | Author |
| 61 | BBuzz Aldrin | 280k | 7.3% | 45.9 | 34.2% | Author |
| 62 | PPaulo Coelho | 275k | 5.8% | 43.9 | 78.8% | Author |
| 63 | EEckart Tolle | 275k | 21.4% | 36.6 | 85.7% | Author |
| 64 | GGeorge R. R. Martin | 271k | 6.2% | 33.7 | 53.5% | Author |
| 65 | EEckhart Tolle | 264k | 14.7% | 36.9 | 68.3% | Author |
| 66 | JJenna Coleman | 263k | 6.3% | 26.4 | 100.0% | Author |
| 67 | JJules Verne | 262k | 7.2% | 36.6 | 55.3% | Author |
| 68 | JJean Paul | 260k | 22.1% | 46.1 | 85.6% | Author |
| 69 | AAndreas Eschbach | 256k | 83.7% | 54.7 | 100.0% | Author |
| 70 | NNoam Chomsky | 247k | 4.7% | 39.5 | 44.9% | Author |
| 71 | JJ. R. R. Tolkien | 237k | 5.8% | 35.9 | 50.7% | Author |
| 72 | SSophie Kinsella | 237k | 6.8% | 42.8 | 78.2% | Author |
| 73 | VVirginia Woolf | 235k | 5.3% | 39.7 | 57.7% | Author |
| 74 | MMalala Yousafzai | 233k | 4.8% | 35.0 | 56.6% | Author |
| 75 | RRita Falk | 231k | 85.2% | 39.4 | 66.1% | Author |
| 76 | JJordan Belfort | 229k | 3.6% | 35.3 | 39.9% | Author |
| 77 | EErnest Hemingway | 229k | 4.5% | 38.7 | 55.6% | Author |
| 78 | HHarriet Tubman | 225k | 3.0% | 45.8 | 72.0% | Author |
| 79 | SSarah J. Maas | 223k | 5.8% | 35.6 | 77.6% | Author |
| 80 | UUmberto Eco | 219k | 8.7% | 43.1 | 64.1% | Author |
| 81 | JJussi Adler-Olsen | 218k | 30.8% | 40.5 | 55.0% | Author |
| 82 | TThomas Aquinas | 218k | 5.6% | 47.3 | 80.9% | Author |
| 83 | JJojo Moyes | 216k | 14.3% | 41.2 | 78.4% | Author |
| 84 | BBrandon Sanderson | 214k | 5.2% | 39.3 | 56.2% | Author |
| 85 | IIan McEwan | 213k | 20.2% | 51.1 | 80.5% | Author |
| 86 | AAleister Crowley | 206k | 8.2% | 44.9 | 68.1% | Author |
| 87 | VViktor Frankl | 206k | 8.8% | 42.8 | 44.7% | Author |
| 88 | EErich Fromm | 203k | 31.7% | 50.4 | 80.8% | Author |
| 89 | MMarkus Kavka | 200k | 88.5% | 38.6 | 61.5% | Author |
| 90 | TThomas Spitzer | 199k | 67.1% | 34.7 | 52.5% | Author |
| 91 | KKaren Blixen | 199k | 20.9% | 57.3 | 78.8% | Author |
| 92 | DDiana Gabaldon | 196k | 13.4% | 43.8 | 80.2% | Author |
| 93 | SSimone de Beauvoir | 191k | 5.0% | 39.0 | 53.0% | Author |
| 94 | AAmerigo Vespucci | 184k | 14.3% | 48.0 | 93.7% | Author |
| 95 | RRoald Dahl | 184k | 2.8% | 40.5 | 63.2% | Author |
| 96 | MMedical Medium | 183k | 26.2% | 47.4 | 100.0% | Author |
| 97 | MMaya Angelou | 181k | 3.5% | 47.2 | 54.5% | Author |
| 98 | NNeil Gaiman | 179k | 3.5% | 35.0 | 63.7% | Author |
| 99 | SStieg Larsson | 178k | 18.8% | 50.0 | 66.2% | Author |
| 100 | WWalter Benjamin | 175k | 22.6% | 46.2 | 50.1% | Author |
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Frequently asked questions
How is this list of the most popular authors compiled?
Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Germany and ranks each author by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.
How often is the list updated?
The ranking is updated quarterly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.
What is the largest author in Germany?
Caroline Wahl currently leads with an estimated audience of 1.5M people in Germany.