# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-kruss
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:11:55.188Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-kruss"
name: "James Krüss"
slug: "james-kruss"
description: "James Krüss was a German writer of children's and picture books, illustrator, poet, radio play author, scriptwriter, translator, and collector of children's poems and folk songs. For his contribution as a children's writer he received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1968."
tagline: "German writer (1926–1997)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ctlpYX68IhC1CSvjswKuJ1mwklP.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-05-31"
deathDate: "1997-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           59.7
  momentum:             10
  historical:           21.546904
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0473275/"
    handle:    "nm0473275"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jameskruess.de/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "چاميس كروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Krüss"
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    title: "James Krüss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kr%C3%BCss"
    title: "James Krüss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Krüss"
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    title: "James Krüss"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Krüss"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джеймс Крюс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "詹姆斯·克吕斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Kr%C3%BCss"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "James Krüss"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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