# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lothar-gunther-buchheim
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:03:28.366Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lothar-gunther-buchheim"
name: "Lothar-Günther Buchheim"
slug: "lothar-gunther-buchheim"
description: "Lothar-Günther Buchheim was a German author, painter, and wartime journalist under the Nazi regime. In World War II he served as a war correspondent aboard ships and U-boats. He is best known for his 1973 antiwar novel Das Boot, based on his experiences during the war, which became an international bestseller and was adapted as the 1981 Oscar-nominated film of the same name. His artworks, collected in a gallery on the banks of the Starnberger See, range from heavily decorated cars to a variety of mannequins seated or standing as if themselves visitors to the gallery, thus challenging the division between visitor and art work."
tagline: "Author, artist (1918-2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Autor_Lothar-G%C3%BCnther_Buchheim_(Kiel_68.453).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-02-06"
deathDate: "2007-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump