# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-hamm
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:34:47.013Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-hamm"
name: "Peter Hamm"
slug: "peter-hamm"
description: "Peter Hamm was a German poet, author, journalist, editor, and literary critic. He wrote several documentaries, including ones about Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke. He wrote for the German weekly newspapers Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, among others. From 1964 to 2002, Hamm worked as contributing editor for culture for the broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. He was also a jury member of literary prizes, and critic for a regular literary club of the Swiss television company Schweizer Fernsehen."
tagline: "German writer and literary critic (1937–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_hamm.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-03-27"
deathDate: "2019-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.49
  momentum:             3.222506393861893
  historical:           6.189169333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d61d6f4b-58ad-46fb-be55-80977fa1828b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hamm"
    title: "Peter Hamm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hamm"
    title: "Peter Hamm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hamm"
    title: "Peter Hamm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hamm"
    title: "Peter Hamm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hamm"
    title: "Peter Hamm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hamm"
    title: "Peter Hamm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2075438"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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