# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-gottschalk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:24:54.150Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-gottschalk"
name: "Thomas Gottschalk"
slug: "thomas-gottschalk"
description: "Thomas Johannes Gottschalk is a German radio and television host and entertainer. He is best known for hosting Wetten, dass..?, for many years Europe's biggest television show, which he steered to huge success in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol between 1987 and 2023. Until 2015, he was also the brand ambassador in television advertisements for Haribo confectionery."
tagline: "German television host and entertainer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maischberger_-_2018-02-28-9492.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-05-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.11356666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "herbstblond"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/thereal.thomasgottschalk/"
    handle:    "thereal.thomasgottschalk"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/thomasgottschalktv"
    handle:    "thomasgottschalktv"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0332052/"
    handle:    "nm0332052"
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    title: "Thomas Gottschalk"
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    title: "Thomas Gottschalk"
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    title: "Thomas Gottschalk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thomas Gottschalk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thomas Gottschalk"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump