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
51 Ferdowsi 29k 43.2 64.9% Poet
52 Husayn ibn Ali 29k 38.6 27.7% Poet
53 Akiane Kramarik 29k 49.1 82.8% Poet
54 Charles Baudelaire 29k 41.6 74.9% Poet
55 Louise Erdrich 27k 46.2 89.9% Poet
56 Robert Graves 27k 56.6 85.6% Poet
57 John Henry Newman 27k 46.6 65.5% Poet
58 Audre Lorde 27k 22.6 67.6% Poet
59 Federico García Lorca 26k 43.4 66.9% Poet
60 Shel Silverstein 25k 45.9 83.9% Poet
61 dean koontz 25k 34.2 47.4% Poet
62 Ezra Pound 25k Poet
63 Friedrich Hölderlin 24k Poet
64 Giacomo Casanova 24k 41.0 57.2% Poet
65 Boris Vian 24k 44.9 53.3% Poet
66 Miguel de Cervantes 24k 38.7 37.7% Poet
67 Clarissa Pinkola Estés 23k 47.4 82.4% Poet
68 Ibn Taymiyyah 22k 25.7 30.8% Poet
69 Thomas Merton 21k 51.0 68.3% Poet
70 Adam Mickiewicz 21k 35.3 69.9% Poet
71 Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum 20k 40.8 37.5% Poet
72 Neyzen Tevfik 19k 50.9 27.7% Poet
73 Chinua Achebe 19k 41.1 57.7% Poet
74 Ömer Hayyam 19k 49.9 51.4% Poet
75 Muhammad al-Bukhari 18k 36.7 39.3% 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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