# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolf-erlbruch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:59:43.622Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolf-erlbruch"
name: "Wolf Erlbruch"
slug: "wolf-erlbruch"
description: "Wolf Erlbruch was a German illustrator and writer of children's books, who became professor at several universities. He combined various techniques for the artwork in his books, including cutting and pasting, drawing, and painting. His style was sometimes surrealist and is widely copied inside and outside Germany. Some of his storybooks have challenging themes such as death and the meaning of life. They won many awards, including the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1993 and 2003. Erlbruch received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2006 for his \"lasting contribution\" as a children's illustrator. In 2017, he was the first German to win the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award."
tagline: "German illustrator and writer (1948–2022)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1948-06-30"
deathDate: "2022-12-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.04305705059203444
  historical:           16.233588
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm3953689"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump