# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ulrich-horstmann
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:28:38.233Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ulrich-horstmann"
name: "Ulrich Horstmann"
slug: "ulrich-horstmann"
description: "Ulrich Horstmann is a German literary scholar and writer who has also written under the pseudonym Klaus Steintal. Frequently described as a philosopher in the tradition of philosophical pessimism, he is perhaps most notorious for his view, often regarded as extreme even among other pessimist philosophers, that voluntary human extinction ought to be achieved by way of intentional global thermonuclear annihilation. Horstmann developed an idea of anthropofugal thinking in his philosophical essay \"Das Untier\" (1983)."
tagline: "German writer and academic"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-05-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.890625
  historical:           5.491758666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ulrich Horstmann"
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    title: "الريتش هورستمان"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хорстманн, Ульрих"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ulrich Horstmann"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9A%B8%EB%A6%AC%ED%9E%88_%ED%98%B8%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8%EB%A7%8C"
    title: "울리히 호스트만"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump