# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bodo-kirchhoff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:34:43.066Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bodo-kirchhoff"
name: "Bodo Kirchhoff"
slug: "bodo-kirchhoff"
description: "Bodo Kirchhoff is a German writer and novelist. He was born in Hamburg before moving with his family to Kirchzarten in the Black Forest in 1955, which he describes as a culture shock. In addition to writing literary fiction, he has worked on various projects for German television, such as long-runner Tatort, and has written movie screenplays. One of his best-known novels is Infanta (1990), which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. In 2016, his novel, which features an African migrant in Italy, Encounter won the German Book Prize."
tagline: "German writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bodo_Kirchhoff_auf_der_Frankfurter_Buchmesse_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-07-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.256556
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0456279/"
    handle:    "nm0456279"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://bodokirchhoff.de/"
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    title: "Бодо Кирххоф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bodo Kirchhoff"
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    title: "Bodo Kirchhoff"
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    title: "Bodo Kirchhoff"
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    title: "Bodo Kirchhoff"
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    title: "Bodo Kirchhoff"
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    title: "Bodo Kirchhoff"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump