# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/siegfried-zielinski
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:37:59.084Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/siegfried-zielinski"
name: "Siegfried Zielinski"
slug: "siegfried-zielinski"
description: "Siegfried Zielinski is a German media theorist. He held the chair for Media Theory: Archaeology and Variantology of the Media at Berlin University of the Arts, he is Michel Foucault Professor for Techno-Culture and Media Archaeology at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, and he is director of the International Vilém-Flusser-Archive at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2016 until March 2018, he succeeded Peter Sloterdijk as head of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design."
tagline: "Media theorist (born 1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Siegfried_Zielinski_at_archive_Werner_Nekes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.481030666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Зигфрід Зелінські"
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    title: "Siegfried Zielinski"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Zielinski"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump