Trending Poets in Germany — the 7 days to 29 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed poets on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 29 October 2026 (German-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Wolf Biermann. Data as of 29 October 2026.
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This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the German-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of Germany. Nothing here is capped or sampled: it is every view Wikipedia published for these articles in the window. Rows carrying a 📰 badge add news coverage from GDELT; entity names and types come from Wikidata. Looking for what one country read? That is what the world reads — a different, capped measurement.
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Ranked
586,448
Total Views (the 7 days to 29 October 2026)
1
Wolf Biermann
German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident
22,356
views
views
2
John Lennon
British musician (1940–1980)
21,225
views
views
3
Stevie Wonder
American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (born 1950)
18,772
views
views
4
Torsten Sträter
German writer, satirist and stand-up comedian
15,751
views
views
5
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
15,723
views
views
6
Till Lindemann
German singer (born 1963)
14,253
views
views
7
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
13,387
views
views
8
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
12,813
views
views
9
Freddie Mercury
British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen (1946–1991)
12,313
views
views
10
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
10,811
views
views
11
Reinhard Mey
German singer-songwriter
10,640
views
views
12
Carl Zuckmayer
German writer and playwright (1896-1977)
10,216
views
views
13
Julian Lennon
English musician; son of John Lennon
10,064
views
views
14
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
9,754
views
views
15
Leonard Nimoy
American actor (1931–2015)
9,387
views
views
16
Julius Caesar
Roman general and dictator
9,335
views
views
17
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
8,658
views
views
18
Lisa Eckhart
Austrian entertainer, literary standup comedian, novelist and former poetry slammer
8,234
views
views
19
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
8,082
views
views
20
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
7,875
views
views
21
John Paul II
pope, cardinal, bishop, priest, author
7,779
views
views
22
Lisa Marie Presley
American singer-songwriter (1968–2023)
7,062
views
views
23
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
6,743
views
views
24
Tupac Shakur
American rapper and actor (1971–1996)
6,607
views
views
25
Elfriede Jelinek
Austrian playwright and novelist
6,361
views
views
26
Sean Lennon
American composer and musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
6,215
views
views
27
Bertolt Brecht
German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)
6,106
views
views
28
Klaus Mann
German writer (1906–1949)
5,804
views
views
29
Madonna
American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1958)
5,741
views
views
30
Tim Burton
American filmmaker and artist (born 1958)
5,590
views
views
31
George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
5,488
views
views
32
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
5,486
views
views
33
Friedrich Schiller
German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
5,454
views
views
34
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
5,395
views
views
35
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
5,328
views
views
36
Erich Kästner
German children's writer (1899–1974)
5,278
views
views
37
Viggo Mortensen
American actor
5,251
views
views
38
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
5,236
views
views
39
Werner Lindemann
German writer (1926–1993)
5,206
views
views
40
Till Reiners
German writer
5,196
views
views
41
Richard Wagner
German composer (1813–1883)
5,031
views
views
42
Richard I of England
King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157–1199)
4,899
views
views
43
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
4,844
views
views
44
Stefan Zweig
Austrian writer (1881–1942)
4,804
views
views
45
Francis of Assisi
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)
4,773
views
views
46
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
4,765
views
views
47
Clara Lösel
German author and poet
4,732
views
views
48
Gustaf Gründgens
German actor, director, intendant (1899-1963)
4,714
views
views
49
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
4,670
views
views
50
James Franco
American actor (born 1978)
4,506
views
views
51
Heinrich Heine
German poet, writer and literary critic (1797–1856)
4,358
views
views
52
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906–1945)
4,213
views
views
53
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
King of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor (1194–1250, 1220–1250)
4,133
views
views
54
Jean Paul
German Romantic writer (1763-1825)
4,104
views
views
55
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
4,077
views
views
56
Cicero
Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)
4,069
views
views
57
Thomas More
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
4,068
views
views
58
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
4,057
views
views
59
Heinz Erhardt
German comedian and entertainer (1909-1979)
4,006
views
views
60
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
3,981
views
views
61
Patti Smith
American singer, songwriter, author and poet (born 1946)
3,967
views
views
62
Fabian Köster
German comedian and comedy writer
3,954
views
views
63
James Stewart
American actor and military officer (1908–1997)
3,900
views
views
64
Michael Ende
German writer (1929–1995)
3,866
views
views
65
Mick Jagger
British singer and songwriter; vocalist of The Rolling Stones
3,836
views
views
66
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
3,802
views
views
67
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
3,724
views
views
68
Heinrich Böll
German writer (1917–1985)
3,693
views
views
69
Ingeborg Bachmann
Austrian poet and author (1926–1973)
3,666
views
views
70
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
3,649
views
views
71
Ernst Jünger
German writer (1895–1998)
3,603
views
views
72
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
3,534
views
views
73
Günter Grass
German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)
3,440
views
views
74
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
3,403
views
views
75
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
3,308
views
views
76
Rudolf Steiner
Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)
3,293
views
views
77
Judith Holofernes
German singer-songwriter, podcaster and writer
3,276
views
views
78
Martin Heidegger
German philosopher (1889–1976)
3,259
views
views
79
Karl May
German writer (1842–1912)
3,188
views
views
80
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
3,166
views
views
81
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
3,156
views
views
82
Édith Piaf
French singer (1915–1963)
3,116
views
views
83
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
American actor (1970–2025)
3,100
views
views
84
Niccolò Machiavelli
Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527)
3,089
views
views
85
Jim Morrison
American singer and poet; lead vocalist of The Doors (1943–1971)
3,046
views
views
86
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
3,016
views
views
87
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
3,005
views
views
88
Homer
reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
3,004
views
views
89
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
3,002
views
views
90
Sebastian 23
German slam poet, author and comedian
2,972
views
views
91
Heinrich von Kleist
German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer (1777–1811)
2,959
views
views
92
Theodor Fontane
German novelist and poet (1819–1898)
2,945
views
views
93
Georg Büchner
German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose (1813–1837)
2,905
views
views
94
E. T. A. Hoffmann
German writer (1776-1822)
2,887
views
views
95
Art Garfunkel
American singer, actor, and poet (born 1941)
2,878
views
views
96
Volker Pispers
German cabaret artist
2,857
views
views
97
Peter Gabriel
British singer and musician (born 1950)
2,847
views
views
98
Laura Karasek
German lawyer, writer and poet lawyer
2,815
views
views
99
Nero
fifth and last Roman Emperor of Julio-Claudian dynasty (54–68)
2,784
views
views
100
Hildegard Knef
German actress, singer and writer (1925-2002)
2,759
views
views
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