# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sonke-neitzel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:23:17.753Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sonke-neitzel"
name: "Sönke Neitzel"
slug: "sonke-neitzel"
description: "Sönke Neitzel is a German historian who has written extensively about the Second World War. He is editor of the journal German History in the 20th Century and has written several books such as Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying; The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs based on recordings of German POWs held at Trent Park which he wrote with Harald Welzer. Neitzel edited the book Tapping Hitler's Generals."
tagline: "German historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/S%C3%B6nke_Neitzel_Blaues_Sofa_13._Oktober_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1968-06-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.32
  momentum:             0.7722317842799771
  historical:           7.537968
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1114816/"
    handle:    "nm1114816"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6nke_Neitzel"
    title: "Sönke Neitzel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%83%D9%89_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B2%D9%84"
    title: "سونكى نيتزل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6nke_Neitzel"
    title: "Sönke Neitzel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6nke_Neitzel"
    title: "Sönke Neitzel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6nke_Neitzel"
    title: "Sönke Neitzel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6nke_Neitzel"
    title: "Sönke Neitzel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%97%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B5"
    title: "Найтцель, Зёнке"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85264"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2568875"
    title: "Sönke Neitzel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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