Kurt Hoffmann
Kurt Hoffmann (born November 12, 1910, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany; died 2001), was a Film director. Hoffmann's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film, Bavarian Order of Merit and Bavarian Film Awards (Honorary Award).
Kurt Hoffmann’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Kurt
Kurt Hoffmann’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Kurt in the U.S.?
#2271
US rank in 2025
~86,054
Americans share it since 1894
1964
its peak year
Kurt ranked 1,511th in 1910, the year of this birth, with 6 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kurt’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
1
Soul Urge · independence
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on K (2) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kurt’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1910, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Kurt apart
Kurt Hoffmann took the German Critics' Prize in 1956, at 46.
The working life starts in 1938, at 28.
Kurt Hoffmann was born to Carl Hoffmann.
Wikipedia's editors put Kurt Hoffmann under German comedy film directors, Best Director German Film Award winners and Film people from Freiburg im Breisgau.
Grace Kelly (1929) and Anne Hathaway (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film (1958), Bambi Award (1961) and Bavarian Order of Merit (1996)
- Working from
- 1938
- Citizenship
- Germany and West Germany
- Languages
- German
- Wikipedia editions
- 20
What the chart says
Kurt, according to the stars
Core essence
Kurt does not do surface. The core of Kurt is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Kurt is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Kurt is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Kurt needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Kurt wants to be loved
Kurt wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Kurt even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Kurt creates
How Kurt makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Kurt creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Kurt is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Kurt is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Kurt runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Kurt's birth date. Working below.
Where Kurt sits
Six lines
Kurt’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Kurt Hoffmann
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Freiburg im Breisgau on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Freiburg im Breisgau that night
Computed for 47.99°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Schedar stood nearest the zenith over Freiburg im Breisgau at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.9° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 100 catalog stars were up in all.
From 48.0°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Freiburg im Breisgau at all: they sit past the −42.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 77% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
The death is recorded at Munich, Upper Bavaria in 2001.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Kurt Hoffmann: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Kurt's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
5-planet stellium in Scorpio · No Fire planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Kurt Hoffmann's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 12, 1910, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Dog
Metal DogLoyal past the point of sense.
Kurt Hoffmann was born on November 12, 1910, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Kurt Hoffmann's birth date, November 12, 1910, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Kurt’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kurt Hoffmann's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Kurt Hoffmann combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Kurt’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.4° orb
Kurt’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune0.5° orb
Kurt’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn1.5° to 1.8° orb
Kurt’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.6° to 3.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn1.7° to 2.5° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune1.8° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus2.1° to 3.7° orb
stableSunsextileUranus2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto2.4° to 2.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.2° to 3.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.4° to 3.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter3.6° to 4.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water7 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Kurt’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°52′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 9°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 13°51′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 7°10′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 26°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Pluto 0.3°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.8°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.3°
Kurt’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Kurt’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on November 12
- Grace Kelly1929
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Kurt’s cards
Computed from November 12, 1910. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kurt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q77890 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
The same Kurt Hoffmann at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kurt Hoffmann.
Quick answers about Kurt Hoffmann’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Kurt Hoffmann?
- Kurt Hoffmann was a Scorpio: born November 12, 1910, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Kurt Hoffmann's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 12, 1910 birth.
- What was Kurt Hoffmann's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Kurt Hoffmann's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Kurt Hoffmann's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Kurt Hoffmann's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
