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
76 John Updike 18k 41.1 54.0% Poet
77 Omar Khayyám 18k 34.4 46.7% Poet
78 Alda Merini 17k 48.8 83.3% Poet
79 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 16k 45.4 74.7% Poet
80 Giovanni Boccaccio 16k 41.7 100.0% Poet
81 Wole Soyinka 15k 38.5 49.4% Poet
82 Bedirhan Gökçe 15k 45.7 59.3% Poet
83 Al-Ghazali 15k 29.4 9.8% Poet
84 Harriet Beecher Stowe 15k Poet
85 Wilfred Owen 15k 57.2 72.7% Poet
86 Ismail Kadare 15k Poet
87 John Keats 15k 34.4 38.2% Poet
88 Marina Tsvetaeva 14k 49.4 88.2% Poet
89 Lucan 14k 43.2 77.5% Poet
90 Guillaume Apollinaire 14k 47.0 51.2% Poet
91 Colm Tóibín 14k Poet
92 Saadi Shirazi 14k 29.4 45.1% Poet
93 Ibn Arabi 13k Poet
94 Petrarch 13k 43.5 61.8% Poet
95 James V of Scotland 13k 50.3 78.4% Poet
96 John Cooper Clarke 13k 48.3 33.0% Poet
97 W. H. Auden 12k 43.7 78.7% Poet
98 Robert Browning 12k 45.1 60.6% Poet
99 Seamus Heaney 11k 39.7 76.6% Poet
100 Anne Brontë 11k 23.2 27.0% 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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