# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kurt-held
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:07:15.711Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kurt-held"
name: "Kurt Held"
slug: "kurt-held"
description: "Kurt Kläber, known under the pen name Kurt Held, was a German-Swiss communist activist and writer of proletarian and children's literature. He is best known for the 1941 novel The Outsiders of Uskoken Castle."
tagline: "German writer (1897-1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kurt_Kl%C3%A4ber_1930.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1897-11-04"
deathDate: "1959-12-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8652900688298919
  historical:           12.50644666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0374913"
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    title: "Kurt Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Held"
    title: "Kurt Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kurt Held"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Held"
    title: "Kurt Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kurt Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kurt Held"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump