# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/veit-helmer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:19:50.783Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/veit-helmer"
name: "Veit Helmer"
slug: "veit-helmer"
description: "Veit Helmer is a German film director and screenwriter. He started shooting films at the age of fourteen. After finishing school he was trainee at German TV station NDR. Two month before the wall came down, he moved to East-Berlin to study theatre directing at the famous drama school \"Ernst Busch\". From 1991 to 1997 Helmer studied film directing at HFF Munich. His first feature film Tuvalu earned more than 32 awards. His 2008 film Absurdistan was premiered in Sundance and entered into the 30th Moscow International Film Festival."
tagline: "German film director and producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Veit_Helmer_(Amiens_nov._2008)_3a.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1968-04-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.014112
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0375691/"
    handle:    "nm0375691"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veit_Helmer"
    title: "Veit Helmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "فيت هيلمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "فيت هيلمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veit_Helmer"
    title: "Veit Helmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veit_Helmer"
    title: "Veit Helmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veit_Helmer"
    title: "Veit Helmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veit_Helmer"
    title: "Veit Helmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veit_Helmer"
    title: "Veit Helmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veit_Helmer"
    title: "Veit Helmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veit_Helmer"
    title: "Veit Helmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87282"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52542"
    title: "Veit Helmer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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