# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christoph-hein
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:50:03.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christoph-hein"
name: "Christoph Hein"
slug: "christoph-hein"
description: "Christoph Hein is a German author and translator.\nHe grew up in the town Bad Düben near Leipzig. Being a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule (EOS) in the GDR, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After his Abitur he jobbed inter alia as assembler, bookseller and assistant director. From 1967 to 1971 Hein studied philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin. Upon graduation, he became a dramatic adviser at the Volksbühne in Berlin, where he worked as a resident writer from 1974. Since 1979 Hein has worked as a freelance writer."
tagline: "German writer and translator (born 1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Christoph_Hein_Leipziger_Buchmesse_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-04-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8479741842954465
  historical:           16.48450266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0374275/"
    handle:    "nm0374275"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump