# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jurgen-hinzpeter
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:38:36.909Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jurgen-hinzpeter"
name: "Jürgen Hinzpeter"
slug: "jurgen-hinzpeter"
description: "Jürgen Hinzpeter was a German journalist best known for his coverage of South Korean topics. Hinzpeter was a reporter for the ARD and the only journalist to film the massacres during the Gwangju Uprising in South Korea in 1980. He captured the events on camera, documenting the violence against civilians and the military crackdown in the city. His footage was sent to West Germany and broadcast internationally, exposing the South Korean regime under Chun Doo-hwan to global scrutiny."
tagline: "German journalist (1937-2016)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/J%C3%BCrgen_Hinzpeter.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1937-07-06"
deathDate: "2016-01-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.91
  momentum:             2.816143497757848
  historical:           9.139109333333334
  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/nm8453632/"
    handle:    "nm8453632"
sources:
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    title: "于爾根·辛茲彼得"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "چورجين هينزپيتير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Hinzpeter"
    title: "Jürgen Hinzpeter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Hinzpeter"
    title: "Jürgen Hinzpeter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%AF%D9%86_%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%BE%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "یورگن هینزپتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Hinzpeter"
    title: "Jürgen Hinzpeter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%B3%E3%83%84%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ユルゲン・ヒンツペーター"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%84%EB%A5%B4%EA%B2%90_%ED%9E%8C%EC%B8%A0%ED%8E%98%ED%84%B0"
    title: "위르겐 힌츠페터"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Хинцпетер, Юрген"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12609561"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2083011"
    title: "Jürgen Hinzpeter"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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