# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerhard-lowenthal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:04:22.939Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerhard-lowenthal"
name: "Gerhard Löwenthal"
slug: "gerhard-lowenthal"
description: "Gerhard Löwenthal was a prominent German journalist, human rights activist and author. He presented the ZDF-Magazin, a news magazine of ZDF which highlighted human rights abuses in communist-ruled Eastern Europe, from 1969 to 1987. Löwenthal, who was known as a staunch anticommunist, was president of the Germany Foundation from 1977 to 1994."
tagline: "German journalist (1922-2002)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1922-12-08"
deathDate: "2002-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.22
  momentum:             10.2089552238806
  historical:           5.125382666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1098364/"
    handle:    "nm1098364"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_L%C3%B6wenthal"
    title: "Gerhard Löwenthal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "جيرارد لوينثال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_L%C3%B6wenthal"
    title: "Gerhard Löwenthal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_L%C3%B6wenthal"
    title: "Gerhard Löwenthal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_L%C3%B6wenthal"
    title: "Gerhard Löwenthal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92445"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2307006"
    title: "Gerhard Löwenthal"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump