# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hilmar-hoffmann
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:01:37.703Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hilmar-hoffmann"
name: "Hilmar Hoffmann"
slug: "hilmar-hoffmann"
description: "Hilmar Hoffmann was a German stage and film director, cultural politician and academic lecturer. He founded the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. He was for decades an influential city councillor in Frankfurt, where he initiated the Museumsufer of 15 museums, including the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. He was the president of the Goethe-Institut and taught at universities such as Bochum and Tel Aviv. He wrote the book Kultur für alle, which was a motto of his life and work."
tagline: "German cultural worker and cultural functionary (SPD) (1925-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hilmar_Hoffmann.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1925-08-25"
deathDate: "2018-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.796626666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1678903/"
    handle:    "nm1678903"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilmar_Hoffmann"
    title: "Hilmar Hoffmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%81%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "هيلمار هوفمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilmar_Hoffmann"
    title: "Hilmar Hoffmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilmar_Hoffmann"
    title: "Hilmar Hoffmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilmar_Hoffmann"
    title: "Hilmar Hoffmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "هیلمار هافمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilmar_Hoffmann"
    title: "Hilmar Hoffmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilmar_Hoffmann"
    title: "Hilmar Hoffmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108619"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2301397"
    title: "Hilmar Hoffmann"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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