# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-elsaesser
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:21:31.513Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-elsaesser"
name: "Thomas Elsaesser"
slug: "thomas-elsaesser"
description: "Thomas Elsaesser was a German film historian and professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He was also the writer and director of The Sun Island, a documentary essay film about his grandfather, the architect Martin Elsaesser. He was married to scholar Silvia Vega-Llona."
tagline: "German film historian (1943–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Elsaesser_-_IFFR_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-06-22"
deathDate: "2019-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.353961333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2425280/"
    handle:    "nm2425280"
sources:
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    title: "托马斯·埃尔塞瑟"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "توماس السايسر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Elsaesser"
    title: "Thomas Elsaesser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Elsaesser"
    title: "Thomas Elsaesser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Elsaesser"
    title: "Thomas Elsaesser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC"
    title: "トマス・エルセサー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thomas Elsaesser"
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    title: "Thomas Elsaesser"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Elsaesser"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95954"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1697796"
    title: "Thomas Elsaesser"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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