# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-schutte
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:50:27.741Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-schutte"
name: "Jan Schütte"
slug: "jan-schutte"
description: "Jan Schütte is a German film director and screenwriter. He has directed twelve films since 1982. After graduating from high school, he studied literature, philosophy and art history in Tübingen, Zurich and Hamburg. From 1979 he worked as a television reporter for regional TV programs. His first feature film Dragon Chow premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 1987. His film The Farewell was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.\nSchütte was director of the German Film and Television Academy and is the director of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles."
tagline: "Film director, Screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Schutte.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: "1957-06-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.42
  momentum:             2.513661202185792
  historical:           9.208244
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778338/"
    handle:    "nm0778338"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.janschuette.de/"
sources:
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    title: "Jan Schütte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چان ستشوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sch%C3%BCtte"
    title: "Jan Schütte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sch%C3%BCtte"
    title: "Jan Schütte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sch%C3%BCtte"
    title: "Jan Schütte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sch%C3%BCtte"
    title: "Jan Schütte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sch%C3%BCtte"
    title: "Jan Schütte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sch%C3%BCtte"
    title: "Jan Schütte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sch%C3%BCtte"
    title: "Jan Schütte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sch%C3%BCtte"
    title: "Jan Schütte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90279"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1552936"
    title: "Jan Schütte"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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