# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stefanie-zweig
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:35:37.839Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stefanie-zweig"
name: "Stefanie Zweig"
slug: "stefanie-zweig"
description: "Stefanie Zweig was a German Jewish writer and journalist. She is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika (1995), which was a bestseller in Germany. The novel is based on her early life in Kenya, where her family had fled to escape persecution in Nazi Germany. The film adaptation of the novel (2001) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Her books have sold more than seven million copies, and have been translated into fifteen languages."
tagline: "German writer (1932-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stefanie_Zweig_Lesung_Frankfurt1-21.03.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-09-19"
deathDate: "2014-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.153638814016173
  historical:           19.059724
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0959004"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump