Top 50 Authors in Germany

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest authors in Germany, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 1,606 authors tracked in Germany, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Sebastian Fitzek, Roland Trettl and Sarah, Duchess of York lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 4,319,420 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 660,379, and the largest, Sebastian Fitzek, reaches around 1,488,408 people in Germany. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Germany who actively engage with each author, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Germany and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Sebastian Fitzek	1,488,408	81.9%	Author	Literature
2	Roland Trettl	1,440,470	85.5%	Author	Literature
3	Sarah, Duchess of York	1,390,542	21.3%	Author	Literature
4	Caroline Wahl	1,233,860	83.4%	Author	Literature
5	Anne Frank	1,161,972	7.2%	Author	Politics & Society
6	Jane Goodall	1,142,349	6.7%	Author	Pets & Animals
7	Stephen King	1,130,525	6.2%	Author	Literature
8	Richard David Precht	1,024,093	83.8%	Author	Politics & Society
9	Thomas Mann	949,182	41.9%	Author	Literature
10	Chris Kyle	874,665	12.3%	Author	Literature
11	Hannah Arendt	848,145	18.1%	Author	Literature
12	Caroline Kennedy	844,100	11.1%	Author	Politics & Society
13	Jane Austen	810,896	7.0%	Author	Literature
14	Ferdinand von Schirach	807,573	82.7%	Author	Literature
15	Franz Kafka	706,783	10.8%	Author	Literature
16	Juli Zeh	706,032	83.5%	Author	Literature
17	Bodo Wartke	679,204	89.5%	Author	Music & Radio
18	Amal Clooney	677,620	8.3%	Author	Politics & Society
19	Charles Darwin	659,903	6.0%	Author	Business & Career
20	Charlotte Link	617,959	78.0%	Author	Literature
21	Joachim Meyerhoff	617,709	80.5%	Author	Literature
22	Bastian Bielendorfer	602,718	93.5%	Author	Literature
23	Sandra Navidi	598,390	87.5%	Author	Business & Career
24	Charles Dickens	588,823	11.7%	Author	Literature
25	Agatha Christie	558,856	6.2%	Author	Literature
26	Daniele Ganser	556,176	69.1%	Author	Politics & Society
27	Stefano Zarrella	530,516	86.2%	Author	Movies & TV
28	Karo Kauer	520,924	90.5%	Author	Fashion & Accessoires
29	colleen hoover	505,331	7.7%	Author	Literature
30	Helen Keller	502,164	4.9%	Author	Literature
31	Amanda Knox	498,520	7.4%	Author	Politics & Society
32	Cornelia Funke	493,718	88.0%	Author	Literature
33	Rosamunde Pilcher	486,219	66.2%	Author	Literature
34	Rainer Maria Rilke	475,979	39.0%	Author	Literature
35	Nele Neuhaus	473,764	78.8%	Author	Literature
36	Harlan Coben	451,003	6.3%	Author	Literature
37	Heather Graham	441,866	7.9%	Author	Literature
38	Dan Brown	434,225	8.3%	Author	Literature
39	Candace Owens	425,817	1.9%	Author	Literature
40	Florence Nightingale	409,195	4.5%	Author	Politics & Society
41	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	401,869	36.4%	Author	Literature
42	Ken Follett	386,399	14.2%	Author	Literature
43	Heinz Strunk	381,553	90.2%	Author	Literature
44	Markus Krall	373,607	84.3%	Author	Business & Career
45	Stefan Zweig	371,261	16.6%	Author	Literature
46	Nostradamus	356,569	6.6%	Author	Politics & Society
47	Jens Söring	354,530	86.2%	Author	Politics & Society
48	Oscar Wilde	345,257	4.2%	Author	Literature
49	Lydia Benecke	345,247	90.0%	Author	Literature
50	Hermann Hesse	336,494	18.6%	Author	Literature