# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joachim-sauter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:51:09.694Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joachim-sauter"
name: "Joachim Sauter"
slug: "joachim-sauter"
description: "Joachim Sauter was a German media artist, designer and technology entrepreneur. He was appointed Professor for New Media Art and Design at the Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK in 1991, and in 1993 he created Terravision, before pursuing a lawsuit against Google for infringing the patent. He became an adjunct professor at UCLA, Los Angeles in 2001."
tagline: "German artist (1959–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joachim_Sauter_at_the_MIT_Media_Lab.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1959-05-16"
deathDate: "2021-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.379593333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%82%A2%E3%83%92%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B6%E3%82%A6%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ヨアヒム・ザウター"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "چواكيم ساوتير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Sauter"
    title: "Joachim Sauter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Sauter"
    title: "Joachim Sauter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Sauter"
    title: "Joachim Sauter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Sauter"
    title: "Joachim Sauter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Sauter"
    title: "Joachim Sauter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1690437"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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