# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-ernsting
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:09:42.197Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-ernsting"
name: "Walter Ernsting"
slug: "walter-ernsting"
description: "Walter Ernsting was a German science fiction and fantasy author who mainly published under the pseudonym Clark Darlton. He grew up in Koblenz and was drafted into the German Wehrmacht shortly after the beginning of World War II. He served in an intelligence unit in Norway and on the Eastern Front, where he was captured and spent several years as a prisoner of war in Siberia."
tagline: "German writer (1920–2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_Ernsting_(1978).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-06-13"
deathDate: "2005-01-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.52
  momentum:             7.18885907282317
  historical:           9.883082666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0201440/"
    handle:    "nm0201440"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/56499066-f344-434f-bac6-4964d812bbda"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "والتر ارنستينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ernsting"
    title: "Walter Ernsting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ernsting"
    title: "Walter Ernsting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ernsting"
    title: "Walter Ernsting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ernsting"
    title: "Walter Ernsting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ernsting"
    title: "Walter Ernsting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ernsting"
    title: "Walter Ernsting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Darlton"
    title: "Clark Darlton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ernsting"
    title: "Walter Ernsting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Кларк Дарльтон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ernsting"
    title: "Walter Ernsting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71309"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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