# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helga-konigsdorf
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:36:00.461Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helga-konigsdorf"
name: "Helga Königsdorf"
slug: "helga-konigsdorf"
description: "Helga Königsdorf was an East German statistician and novelist. She is notable for becoming distinguished in two distinct careers - science and literature.\n\nShe wrote three books on mathematics, two co-written with her husband Olaf Bunke, who outlived her by seven years, and thirteen literary books of her own.\nMy Indecent Dreams, her first collection of short stories, was published at the age of 40. \nFission is her best-known novel. Königsdorf died of Parkinson's disease in 2014 at the age of 75."
tagline: "German writer and mathematician (1938–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1987-1125-309%2C_Berlin%2C_Schriftstellerkongress_der_DDR%2C_K%C3%B6nigsdorf.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938-07-13"
deathDate: "2014-05-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump