# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-bockmayer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:01:13.188Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-bockmayer"
name: "Walter Bockmayer"
slug: "walter-bockmayer"
description: "Walter Bockmayer was a German film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed seven films between 1975 and 1988. His 1978 film Flaming Hearts was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. He found a new home with the Scala Theater in Cologne, where the first stage play Ich möch zu Foß noh Kölle jonn was performed in 2003. Bockmayer's new plays were performed annually in the theater, which had a capacity of 260 people. He relocated famous operas such as Carmen (1995) or La traviata (1998) to the setting of the Klapperhof in Cologne or to a massage parlor. He died of lung cancer in 2014."
tagline: "German film director, screenwriter and actor (1948–2014)"
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gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-07-04"
deathDate: "2014-10-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             16.81297709923664
  historical:           9.488950666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0090707/"
    handle:    "nm0090707"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump