# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jurgen-flimm
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:52:07.235Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jurgen-flimm"
name: "Jürgen Flimm"
slug: "jurgen-flimm"
description: "Jürgen Flimm was a German theatre and opera director, theatre manager, and academic teacher. Flimm was first active in drama, and made the Thalia Theater in Hamburg one of the most successful German theatres when he managed it from 1985 to 2000. He was general manager of the Salzburg Festival and RuhrTriennale festivals, and intendant of the Berlin State Opera from 2010 to 2018. He directed internationally, including Beethoven's Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera, the 2000 Ring cycle production at the Bayreuth Festival, and the 2002 world premiere of Friedrich Cerha's Der Riese vom Steinfeld at the Vienna State Opera."
tagline: "German theatre and opera director (1941–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J%C3%BCrgen_Flimm_1973.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: "1941-07-17"
deathDate: "2023-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.828836
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0282324/"
    handle:    "nm0282324"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7cc43658-7fd6-4cf5-93d0-10d381fb7b15"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85"
    title: "چورجين فليم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Flimm"
    title: "Jürgen Flimm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Flimm"
    title: "Jürgen Flimm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Flimm"
    title: "Jürgen Flimm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Flimm"
    title: "Jürgen Flimm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Flimm"
    title: "Jürgen Flimm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Flimm"
    title: "Jürgen Flimm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Flimm"
    title: "Jürgen Flimm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Flimm"
    title: "Jürgen Flimm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91997"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26305"
    title: "Jürgen Flimm"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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