# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/max-mell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:19:44.747Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/max-mell"
name: "Max Mell"
slug: "max-mell"
description: "Max Mell (1882–1971) was an Austrian writer. He wrote plays, novels and screenplays. He was born in Maribor, then part of the Austrian Empire but now in Slovenia. He studied at Vienna University, and served in the Austrian military during World War I. In 1914 he won the Bauernfeld Prize, and in 1929 he was awarded the Franz Grillparzer Prize. Culturally conservative, in 1951 he tried to counter what he regarded as Nazi distortions of the epic Nibelungenlied with a more faithful reading of the original text. In 1959 he was given the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art."
tagline: "Austrian poet, playwright and author (1882–1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mell-max-in-1934-09-28-radio-wien-s63-foto-georg-fayer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1882-11-10"
deathDate: "1971-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.343053333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577868/"
    handle:    "nm0577868"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Mell"
    title: "Max Mell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%84"
    title: "ماكس مل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%84"
    title: "ماكس مل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Mell"
    title: "Max Mell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Mell"
    title: "Max Mell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Mell"
    title: "Max Mell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90074"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1197559"
    title: "Max Mellinger"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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