# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-kofer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:01:19.373Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-kofer"
name: "Herbert Köfer"
slug: "herbert-kofer"
description: "Herbert Köfer was a German actor and television presenter. He was the first German TV news presenter for the East German Deutscher Fernsehfunk, and also presented the station's last news before the reunification of Germany. His first theatre engagement was in 1940, and he kept acting until the age of 100. Köfer played an SS-Hauptsturmführer in the 1963 film Nackt unter Wölfen. He was known for detective series such as Polizeiruf 110 and comic roles. He founded his own troupe, Köfers Komödiantenbühne, in 2003, and published memoirs."
tagline: "German actor, voice actor and TV presenter (1921–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Herbert_K%C3%B6fer_2008_(aka).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1921-02-17"
deathDate: "2021-07-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0477794/"
    handle:    "nm0477794"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.herbertkoefer.de"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump