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
26 Thomas Moore 68k 54.1 79.6% Poet
27 Michel Houellebecq 66k 35.7 51.0% Poet
28 Hafez 65k 39.5 53.5% Poet
29 Ralph Waldo Emerson 52k 36.3 29.8% Poet
30 Cyrano de Bergerac 52k 36.3 49.4% Poet
31 Arthur Rimbaud 45k 42.0 57.7% Poet
32 Charlotte Brontë 44k 34.8 57.3% Poet
33 Allen Ginsberg 42k 43.3 49.0% Poet
34 Percy Bysshe Shelley 41k 45.9 71.6% Poet
35 Can Yücel 41k 44.2 60.1% Poet
36 Søren Kierkegaard 41k 48.1 69.3% Poet
37 Joyce Carol Oates 40k 52.2 66.5% Poet
38 Henry David Thoreau 39k 37.4 64.1% Poet
39 Ludwig I of Bavaria 37k 33.9 92.0% Poet
40 Andrea Gibson 37k 31.4 90.7% Poet
41 Aristophanes 36k 48.6 83.1% Poet
42 Mahmoud Darwish 36k 40.8 51.8% Poet
43 Aziz Nesin 35k 41.9 91.3% Poet
44 Tennessee Williams 35k 40.7 77.3% Poet
45 Zelda Fitzgerald 34k Poet
46 Julius Evola 34k 46.6 13.4% Poet
47 Richard I of England 33k 42.9 50.0% Poet
48 Ray Bradbury 32k 35.3 61.1% Poet
49 Cemal Süreya 31k 45.9 50.4% Poet
50 Amanda Gorman 30k 37.6 57.3% 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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