# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-heinz-bohrer
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:01:43.447Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-heinz-bohrer"
name: "Karl Heinz Bohrer"
slug: "karl-heinz-bohrer"
description: "Karl Heinz Bohrer was a German literary scholar and essayist. He worked as a chief editor for literature of the daily FAZ, and became co-publisher and author of the cultural magazine Merkur. He taught at the Bielefeld University for decades, and also at Stanford University, California. His autobiography appeared in two volumes in 2012 and 2017. Bohrer is regarded as a disputative intellectual thinker and critic, reflecting his time. He received notable awards for criticism, German language and literature, including the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize and the Heinrich Mann Prize. For his extensive work, Bohrer was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with Ribbon (2014)."
tagline: "German literary scholar (1932–2021)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1932-09-26"
deathDate: "2021-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.04
  momentum:             2.620689655172414
  historical:           5.690426666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Karl Heinz Bohrer"
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    title: "كارل هينز بوهرير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Heinz_Bohrer"
    title: "Karl Heinz Bohrer"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Heinz_Bohrer"
    title: "Karl Heinz Bohrer"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Heinz_Bohrer"
    title: "Karl Heinz Bohrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "カール・ハインツ・ボーラー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump