# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willi-heinrich
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:59:23.001Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willi-heinrich"
name: "Willi Heinrich"
slug: "willi-heinrich"
description: "Willi Heinrich was a German author and soldier. During the Second World War he fought in the 101st Jäger Division, which suffered massive losses on the Eastern Front, and his combat experiences inspired his first successful novel, Das geduldige Fleisch (1955), published in English translation as The Willing Flesh in the United Kingdom and as The Cross of Iron in the United States (1956). He later wrote a series of popular genre novels in the 1970s and 1980s."
tagline: "German writer (1920–2005)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/Willi_Heinrich_%28Los_Angeles_Mirror%2C_3_Apr._1961%29.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-08-09"
deathDate: "2005-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.76
  momentum:             0.6352765321375187
  historical:           6.851228
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0374504/"
    handle:    "nm0374504"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.willi-heinrich.de/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Willi_Heinrich"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "فيلي هينريتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE"
    title: "فيلى هينريخ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Heinrich"
    title: "Willi Heinrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Heinrich"
    title: "Willi Heinrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Heinrich"
    title: "Willi Heinrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Heinrich"
    title: "Willi Heinrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106608"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67063"
    title: "Willi Heinrich"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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