# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sibylle-berg
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:12:15.963Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sibylle-berg"
name: "Sibylle Berg"
slug: "sibylle-berg"
description: "Sibylle Berg is a German-Swiss contemporary author, playwright, and member of the European Parliament. They write novels, essays, short fiction, plays, radio plays, and columns. Their 18 books have been translated into 30 languages. They have won numerous awards, including the Thüringer Literaturpreis, the Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis, and the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis. They have become an iconic figure in German alternative sub-cultures, gaining a large fan base among the LGBT community and the European artistic communities. They live in Switzerland and Israel. Their 2019 work GRM. Brainfuck, a science fiction novel set in a dystopian near future won the Swiss Book Prize and was noticed by The Washington Post. It reached fourth place on the Spiegel Bestseller list, with the sequel, RCE, entering the list as highest entry of the week at place 14. On 1 March 2023 Berg was invited as special guest to open the high-profile Elevate Festival in Graz, Austria."
tagline: "German-Swiss writer (born 1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sibylle_Berg_an_der_re-publica_19-2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "non-binary"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-06-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.80610533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://sibylleberg.com/"
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/SibylleBerg"
    handle:    "SibylleBerg"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
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    handle:    "sibylle_berg"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2359155/"
    handle:    "nm2359155"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibylle_Berg"
    title: "Sibylle Berg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sibylle Berg"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibylle_Berg"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "סיביל ברג"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibylle_Berg"
    title: "Sibylle Berg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Берг, Сибилла"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сивілла Берг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Sibylle Berg"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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