Popularity ranking · Germany

The 100 most popular Poets in Germany

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest poets in Germany, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 258 poets tracked in Germany, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Bertolt Brecht, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Friedrich Schiller lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 1.7M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 64k, and the largest, Bertolt Brecht, reaches around 662k people in Germany. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Germany who actively engage with each poet, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Germany and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

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 Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Bertolt Brecht 662k 45.8 52.8% Poet
2 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 654k 49.1 65.0% Poet
3 Friedrich Schiller 394k 43.1 61.4% Poet
4 Novalis 236k 48.3 60.0% Poet
5 Heinrich Böll 208k 39.2 56.5% Poet
6 Ada Lovelace 187k 42.6 69.3% Poet
7 Ovid 147k 51.3 0.0% Poet
8 Viktor Tsoi 147k 45.3 39.3% Poet
9 Emily Brontë 145k 34.7 63.2% Poet
10 H. P. Lovecraft 143k 32.4 50.1% Poet
11 John Milton 141k 45.8 31.1% Poet
12 Martin Heidegger 138k 48.1 65.5% Poet
13 Heinrich von Kleist 126k Poet
14 Mehmet Akif Ersoy 124k 44.3 41.5% Poet
15 Sylvia Plath 122k 37.6 70.6% Poet
16 Giordano Bruno 104k 44.4 51.4% Poet
17 Rumi 97k 40.4 59.6% Poet
18 Lord Byron 93k 34.7 39.8% Poet
19 Alexander Pushkin 87k 39.4 40.4% Poet
20 Aldous Huxley 85k 34.6 81.0% Poet
21 Nikolai Gogol 77k 42.4 46.8% Poet
22 Johann Gottfried Herder 76k 52.8 42.1% Poet
23 Robert Louis Stevenson 74k 47.7 62.3% Poet
24 Augustine of Hippo 73k 44.0 66.3% Poet
25 T. S. Eliot 71k 44.6 67.1% Poet

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular poets compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Germany and ranks each poet by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest poet in Germany?

Bertolt Brecht currently leads with an estimated audience of 662k people in Germany.

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