# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-kluger
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:18:51.944Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-kluger"
name: "Ruth Klüger"
slug: "ruth-kluger"
description: "Ruth Klüger was Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of California, Irvine and a Holocaust survivor. She was the author of the bestseller Weiter leben: Eine Jugend  about her childhood in Vienna and in Nazi concentration camps."
tagline: "Austrian-born American writer, literature scholar and Holocaust survivor (1931-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruth_Kl%C3%BCger_-_Frankfurter_Buchmesse_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-10-30"
deathDate: "2020-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump