# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-kempowski
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:57:51.684Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-kempowski"
name: "Walter Kempowski"
slug: "walter-kempowski"
description: "Walter Kempowski was a German writer. Kempowski was known for his series of novels called German Chronicle and the monumental Echolot (\"Sonar\"), a collage of autobiographical reports, letters and other documents by contemporary witnesses of the Second World War."
tagline: "German writer (1929–2007)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1929-04-29"
deathDate: "2007-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump