# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jorg-friedrich-q71732
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:45:03.284Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jorg-friedrich-q71732"
name: "Jörg Friedrich"
slug: "jorg-friedrich-q71732"
description: "Jörg Friedrich is a German author and historian. Friedrich is best known for his publication The Fire, in which he portrays the Allied bombing of civilian targets during World War II as systematic and in many ways pointless mass murder. An English translation was published in 2006 by Columbia University Press and met with widespread critical approval. For example, the New York Times said it \"describes in stark, unrelenting and very literary detail what happened in city after city as the Allies dropped 80 million incendiary bombs on Germany..... There is... an edginess to Friedrich's writing and commentary, an emotional power.\""
tagline: "German author and historian (1944-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J%C3%B6rg_Friedrich_(Historian).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-08-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.757489333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295442/"
    handle:    "nm0295442"
sources:
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    title: "Jörg Friedrich"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يورج فريدريش (مؤرخ من المانيا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rg_Friedrich"
    title: "Jörg Friedrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rg_Friedrich_(author)"
    title: "Jörg Friedrich (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rg_Friedrich"
    title: "Jörg Friedrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rg_Friedrich"
    title: "Jörg Friedrich"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rg_Friedrich"
    title: "Jörg Friedrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rg_Friedrich_(historicus)"
    title: "Jörg Friedrich (historicus)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71732"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Jörg Friedrich"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump