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Top 100 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. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Bertolt Brecht and Friedrich Schiller lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 1.9M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 62k, and the largest, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, reaches around 762k 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 Alda Merini 17k 48.8 83.3% Poet
77 Wole Soyinka 17k 38.5 49.4% Poet
78 Al-Ghazali 16k 29.4 9.8% Poet
79 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 16k 45.4 74.7% Poet
80 Giovanni Boccaccio 15k 41.7 100.0% Poet
81 Saadi Shirazi 15k 29.4 45.1% Poet
82 Harriet Beecher Stowe 15k Poet
83 Ismail Kadare 15k Poet
84 Wilfred Owen 14k 57.2 72.7% Poet
85 Marina Tsvetaeva 14k 49.4 88.2% Poet
86 John Keats 14k 34.4 38.2% Poet
87 Lucan 14k 43.2 77.5% Poet
88 Colm Tóibín 14k Poet
89 Guillaume Apollinaire 13k 47.0 51.2% Poet
90 Ibn Arabi 13k Poet
91 Petrarch 13k 43.5 61.8% Poet
92 James V of Scotland 12k 50.3 78.4% Poet
93 John Cooper Clarke 12k 48.3 33.0% Poet
94 W. H. Auden 12k 43.7 78.7% Poet
95 Robert Browning 12k 45.1 60.6% Poet
96 Haji Bektash Veli 11k 47.0 42.8% Poet
97 Seamus Heaney 11k 39.7 76.6% Poet
98 Wisława Szymborska 11k 42.0 82.4% Poet
99 Gabriela Mistral 11k 38.1 71.6% Poet
100 Louise Michel 11k 38.2 79.9% Poet

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list 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?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer currently leads with an estimated audience of 762k people in Germany.

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