# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/may-ayim
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:24:47.318Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/may-ayim"
name: "May Ayim"
slug: "may-ayim"
description: "May Ayim is the pen name of May Opitz ; she was an Afro-German poet, educator, and activist. The child of a German dancer and Ghanaian medical student, she lived with a German foster family when young. After reconnecting with her father and his family in Ghana, in 1992 she took his surname for a pen name."
tagline: "German poet (1960–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portr%C3%A4t_von_Gedenktafel_May-Ayim-Ufer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960-05-03"
deathDate: "1996-08-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.51664
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ayim"
    title: "May Ayim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%89_%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%85"
    title: "مى عاييم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AE"
    title: "মে আয়িম"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ayim"
    title: "May Ayim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ayim"
    title: "May Ayim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ayim"
    title: "May Ayim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ayim"
    title: "May Ayim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ayim"
    title: "May Ayim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ayim"
    title: "May Ayim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ayim"
    title: "May Ayim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ayim"
    title: "May Ayim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ayim"
    title: "May Ayim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ayim"
    title: "May Ayim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ayim"
    title: "May Ayim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106655"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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