---
name: "Hans Erdmann"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hans-erdmann"
fi1m_id: "hans-erdmann"
imdb_id: "nm0258762"
tmdb_id: 9838
wikidata_id: "Q99363"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "7 November 1882"
died: "21 November 1942"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T05:56:55.079987+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Hans Erdmann

## Identity

Hans Erdmann

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hans-erdmann
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hans-erdmann
- **IMDb ID:** nm0258762
- **TMDB ID:** 9838
- **Wikidata ID:** Q99363
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Erdmann, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99363, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0258762/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9838

Composer. Born 7 November 1882 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. Died 21 November 1942.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 7 November 1882, Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]
- **Died:** 21 November 1942
- **Also known as:** Dr. Hans Erdmann
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Erdmann, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99363, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0258762/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9838

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Nosferatu*](https://film.one/film/nosferatu-1922.md) (88)

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## Biography

Hans Erdmann was a German composer of film music, also credited as Dr. Hans Erdmann. Born Johannes Erdmann Themotius Guckel in Breslau in 1882, he studied violin, music theory and composition in his home city. He completed a doctorate in 1912 with a dissertation on the history of Catholic church music in Silesia and worked as a concertmaster and theatre musician before the First World War.

In the early 1920s he began composing for film. He wrote the original score for Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s *Nosferatu* (1922) and conducted its premiere performance. He later scored *The Testament of Dr. Mabuse* (1933) and other productions, taught film music at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin and co-authored the *Allgemeines Handbuch der Film-Musik* (1927).

*Sources: de.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Nosferatu* (1922), Fi1m 88, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/nosferatu-1922.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *SHEUT* (2025), Music
- *Die grüne Hölle* (1934), Original Music Composer
- *The Testament of Dr. Mabuse* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *Urwaldsymphonie* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Leier und Schwert* (1930), Editor
- *Nosferatu* (1922), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/nosferatu-1922.md)

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