The German Lesson

The German lesson - 1968 novel by Siegfried Lenz. This book is the 4543^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The German Lesson” in English Wikipedia has 18.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “The German Lesson”, its content was written by 23 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 170 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The German lesson is on the 4543^rd place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 18 times in English Wikipedia and cited 73 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #71189 in May 2012
• Global: #54015 in December 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #333018 in July 2020
• Global: #6573 in October 2021

There are 9 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Deutschstunde		54.7158
2	Bulgarian (bg) Час по немски		22.4695
3	Ukrainian (uk) Урок німецької (роман)		22.168
4	Polish (pl) Lekcja niemieckiego		19.8451
5	Danish (da) Tysktime (roman)		19.3317
6	English (en) The German Lesson		18.4928
7	Esperanto (eo) La Germana Leciono		5.0764
8	Hebrew (he) השיעור בגרמנית		5.026
9	Norwegian (no) Tysktime		2.0369

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "The German Lesson" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Deutschstunde		1 063 905
2	English (en) The German Lesson		105 871
3	Polish (pl) Lekcja niemieckiego		12 383
4	Norwegian (no) Tysktime		6 997
5	Bulgarian (bg) Час по немски		4 496
6	Hebrew (he) השיעור בגרמנית		3 641
7	Ukrainian (uk) Урок німецької (роман)		272
8	Danish (da) Tysktime (roman)		79
9	Esperanto (eo) La Germana Leciono		53

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "The German Lesson" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Deutschstunde		5 134
2	English (en) The German Lesson		530
3	Norwegian (no) Tysktime		26
4	Danish (da) Tysktime (roman)		23
5	Polish (pl) Lekcja niemieckiego		22
6	Hebrew (he) השיעור בגרמנית		19
7	Ukrainian (uk) Урок німецької (роман)		12
8	Bulgarian (bg) Час по немски		7
9	Esperanto (eo) La Germana Leciono		3

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "The German Lesson" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Deutschstunde		97
2	English (en) The German Lesson		23
3	Norwegian (no) Tysktime		17
4	Polish (pl) Lekcja niemieckiego		13
5	Bulgarian (bg) Час по немски		8
6	Hebrew (he) השיעור בגרמנית		7
7	Danish (da) Tysktime (roman)		3
8	Esperanto (eo) La Germana Leciono		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Урок німецької (роман)		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "The German Lesson" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Danish (da) Tysktime (roman)		1
2	Bulgarian (bg) Час по немски		0
3	German (de) Deutschstunde		0
4	English (en) The German Lesson		0
5	Esperanto (eo) La Germana Leciono		0
6	Hebrew (he) השיעור בגרמנית		0
7	Norwegian (no) Tysktime		0
8	Polish (pl) Lekcja niemieckiego		0
9	Ukrainian (uk) Урок німецької (роман)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "The German Lesson" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Deutschstunde		34
2	English (en) The German Lesson		18
3	Norwegian (no) Tysktime		7
4	Hebrew (he) השיעור בגרמנית		6
5	Esperanto (eo) La Germana Leciono		3
6	Polish (pl) Lekcja niemieckiego		2
7	Bulgarian (bg) Час по немски		1
8	Danish (da) Tysktime (roman)		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Урок німецької (роман)		1

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Час по немски
da	Danish Tysktime (roman)
de	German Deutschstunde
en	English The German Lesson
eo	Esperanto La Germana Leciono
he	Hebrew השיעור בגרמנית
no	Norwegian Tysktime
pl	Polish Lekcja niemieckiego
uk	Ukrainian Урок німецької (роман)

Best Rank

English: #333018 07.2020

Global: #6573 10.2021

Best Rank

English: #71189 05.2012

Global: #54015 12.2004

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