# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johan-anthierens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:08:16.159Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johan-anthierens"
name: "Johan Anthierens"
slug: "johan-anthierens"
description: "Johan Anthierens was a Belgian journalist, columnist, publicist, critic and writer. He became notorious because of his socially conscious columns, as well as his equally controversial opinions during interviews. He published both in HUMO as well as Knack and founded his own short-lived satirical magazine, De Zwijger in 1982-1985. The general public got to know him thanks to his television appearances, both as panel member in the quiz De Wies Andersen Show and as interviewer in the talkshow Noord-Zuid (North-South). Due to his confrontational criticism of capitalism, the monarchy, the Church, the establishment and the far-right movement Anthierens had both a lot of admirers as well as many enemies. Still, together with Louis De Lentdecker and Maurice De Wilde, he was widely regarded as one of the \"Big Three\" of Flemish critical journalism."
tagline: "Journalist, writer (1937-2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johan_Anthierens.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-08-22"
deathDate: "2000-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.66
  momentum:             6.606786427145709
  historical:           8.363285333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0030790/"
    handle:    "nm0030790"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "چوهان انثيرينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Johan Anthierens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Anthierens"
    title: "Johan Anthierens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Anthierens"
    title: "Johan Anthierens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Anthierens"
    title: "Johan Anthierens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Anthierens"
    title: "Johan Anthierens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://li.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johan_Anthierens"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/634a6fd6-f9a4-4fd8-834c-3d00250fae7b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2360102"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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