# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-hofer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:35:36.946Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-hofer"
name: "Jan Hofer"
slug: "jan-hofer"
description: "Jan Hofer is a German broadcast newsreader and television presenter. He was a well-known and popular reader of the news programme Tagesschau on Das Erste. Hofer was the chief reader on Tagesschau from 2004 until December 2020, having been a newsreader on that programme since 1985. Since leaving Tagesschau, he has been lead anchorman for RTL Direkt."
tagline: "German broadcast newsreader and television presenter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Hofer_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1950-01-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.82
  momentum:             15
  historical:           9.37838
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "JanHofer"
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    handle:    "janhofer"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0388681/"
    handle:    "nm0388681"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hofer"
    title: "Jan Hofer"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hofer"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hofer"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump