# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-petersen-q102871
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:08:42.071Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-petersen-q102871"
name: "Jan Petersen"
slug: "jan-petersen-q102871"
description: "Jan Petersen was a German writer who was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), a leader of the Association of Proletarian-Revolutionary Authors (BPRS), and a participant in the German resistance to Nazism who recorded daily life during the Gleichschaltung."
tagline: "Screenwriter and writer (1906-1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Petersen%2C_Berlin_1956.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1906-07-02"
deathDate: "1969-11-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.02
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.471670666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0676841/"
    handle:    "nm0676841"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Petersen_(Schriftsteller)"
    title: "Jan Petersen (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "يان بيترسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "يان بيترسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Petersen_(writer)"
    title: "Jan Petersen (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Petersen"
    title: "Jan Petersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102871"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1872628"
    title: "Jan Petersen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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