The Tin Drum

Quality:

The Tin Drum - 1959 novel by Günter Grass. This book is the 692^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 857^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Tin Drum” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in French Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 857^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 692^nd most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Tin Drum”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1031 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Tin Drum is on the 857^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 692^nd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1426 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4688 in April 2015
• Global: #5649 in April 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #11254 in December 2022
• Global: #2265 in April 2015

There are 32 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	French (fr) Le Tambour		60.455
2	German (de) Die Blechtrommel		42.6432
3	English (en) The Tin Drum		35.0502
4	Ukrainian (uk) Бляшаний барабан (роман)		32.6812
5	Romanian (ro) Toba de tinichea (roman)		32.5552
6	Armenian (hy) Թիթեղյա թմբուկը (վեպ)		32.1202
7	Polish (pl) Blaszany bębenek		31.1627
8	Chinese (zh) 铁皮鼓		25.5447
9	Arabic (ar) طبل الصفيح (رواية)		24.9055
10	Norwegian (no) Blikktrommen		22.7039

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Die Blechtrommel		2 292 521
2	English (en) The Tin Drum		1 895 505
3	Spanish (es) El tambor de hojalata (novela)		598 559
4	Japanese (ja) ブリキの太鼓		551 890
5	Polish (pl) Blaszany bębenek		470 749
6	Italian (it) Il tamburo di latta (romanzo)		261 583
7	Russian (ru) Жестяной барабан (роман)		247 106
8	French (fr) Le Tambour		231 715
9	Chinese (zh) 铁皮鼓		141 161
10	Dutch (nl) De blikken trommel		96 851

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Tin Drum		6 963
2	German (de) Die Blechtrommel		6 518
3	Japanese (ja) ブリキの太鼓		4 205
4	Russian (ru) Жестяной барабан (роман)		3 069
5	Chinese (zh) 铁皮鼓		2 487
6	Spanish (es) El tambor de hojalata (novela)		1 386
7	Italian (it) Il tamburo di latta (romanzo)		1 348
8	Polish (pl) Blaszany bębenek		1 288
9	French (fr) Le Tambour		852
10	Dutch (nl) De blikken trommel		351

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Die Blechtrommel		215
2	English (en) The Tin Drum		201
3	French (fr) Le Tambour		69
4	Japanese (ja) ブリキの太鼓		60
5	Italian (it) Il tamburo di latta (romanzo)		54
6	Polish (pl) Blaszany bębenek		47
7	Hebrew (he) תוף הפח		40
8	Spanish (es) El tambor de hojalata (novela)		37
9	Norwegian (no) Blikktrommen		37
10	Dutch (nl) De blikken trommel		31

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) ブリキの太鼓		2
2	German (de) Die Blechtrommel		1
3	English (en) The Tin Drum		1
4	Arabic (ar) طبل الصفيح (رواية)		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Tənəkə təbili (roman)		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Тенекиеният барабан		0
7	Czech (cs) Plechový bubínek		0
8	Esperanto (eo) La lada tambureto		0
9	Spanish (es) El tambor de hojalata (novela)		0
10	Estonian (et) Plekktrumm		0

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

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