# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-wernicke
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:45:30.776Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-wernicke"
name: "Herbert Wernicke"
slug: "herbert-wernicke"
description: "Herbert Wernicke was a German opera director and a set and costume designer. He was born in Auggen, Baden-Württemberg. He studied piano, flute, and directing at the conservatory in Braunschweig and set design at the academy in Munich. After starting out as set and costume designer in Landshut and Wuppertal, and directing his first play in Darmstadt, he directed his first opera, Handel's Belshazzar, in 1978 in Darmstadt. The majority of Wernicke's artistic work was at the theater in Basel, where he lived since 1990."
tagline: "German opera director (1946-2002)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Herbert_Wernicke_1987.jpg/330px-Herbert_Wernicke_1987.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1946-03-24"
deathDate: "2002-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.47
  momentum:             0.9482758620689655
  historical:           7.004572
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0921531/"
    handle:    "nm0921531"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "هربرت ويرنيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Wernicke"
    title: "Herbert Wernicke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Wernicke"
    title: "Herbert Wernicke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Wernicke"
    title: "Herbert Wernicke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Wernicke"
    title: "Herbert Wernicke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Вернике, Герберт"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92352"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1116790"
    title: "Herbert Wernicke"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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