# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/volker-spengler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:28:54.100Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/volker-spengler"
name: "Volker Spengler"
slug: "volker-spengler"
description: "Volker Spengler was a German stage and film actor. Spengler was best known to international audiences as a member of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's acting ensemble, including his role as the transsexual Erwin/Elvira of Fassbinder's In a Year of 13 Moons (1978). Spengler appeared in about 40 film and television productions between 1966 and 2004, also working with other directors such as Christoph Schlingensief and Volker Schlöndorff. On stage, he performed at Berlin's Volksbühne and with the Berliner Ensemble."
tagline: "German actor (1939-2020)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/8Sp51c1dL4XrLp4klyakr0UzD6E.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-02-16"
deathDate: "2020-02-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.224768
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818204/"
    handle:    "nm0818204"
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    title: "Volker Spengler"
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    title: "Volker Spengler"
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    title: "Volker Spengler"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump