# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thea-von-harbou
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:00:31.312Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thea-von-harbou"
name: "Thea von Harbou"
slug: "thea-von-harbou"
description: "Thea Gabriele von Harbou was a German screenwriter, novelist, film director, and actress. She is remembered as the screenwriter of the science fiction film classic Metropolis (1927) and for the 1925 novel on which it was based. Von Harbou collaborated as a screenwriter with film director Fritz Lang, her husband, during the period of transition from silent to sound films."
tagline: "German screenwriter (1888–1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thea_von_Harbou_B%26M.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1888-12-27"
deathDate: "1954-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0902376"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump