---
name: "Joseph Wulf"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joseph-wulf"
fi1m_id: "joseph-wulf"
tmdb_id: 4552904
wikidata_id: "Q91507"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "22 December 1912"
died: "10 October 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T19:09:30.473660+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."
---

# Joseph Wulf

## Identity

Joseph Wulf

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joseph-wulf
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joseph-wulf
- **TMDB ID:** 4552904
- **Wikidata ID:** Q91507
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91507, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4552904

Composer. Born 22 December 1912 in Chemnitz, Germany. Died 10 October 1974.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 22 December 1912, Chemnitz, Germany
- **Died:** 10 October 1974
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91507, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4552904

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Zone of Interest*](https://film.one/film/the-zone-of-interest.md) (91)

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## Biography

Joseph Wulf (1912–1974) was a German-Jewish historian, writer and Holocaust survivor. Born in Chemnitz and raised in Kraków, he trained as an agronomist and received a rabbinical education before the Nazi invasion of Poland altered his life.

Imprisoned in the Auschwitz III–Monowitz subcamp from 1943, Wulf composed the Yiddish song 'Sunbeams' ('Zunenshtraln') while in captivity. He survived the camp and later settled in West Germany, where he became a leading documentarian of Nazi crimes, authoring numerous books on the Third Reich and advocating for a Holocaust memorial at the Wannsee Conference villa.

Wulf's own voice recording introducing and performing 'Sunbeams', made in the late 1960s, features in Jonathan Glazer's film *The Zone of Interest* (2023), alongside a performance of the melody on piano.

*Sources: forward.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Zone of Interest* (2023), Fi1m 91, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-zone-of-interest.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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

- *The Zone of Interest* (2023), Music — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/the-zone-of-interest.md)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Carl von Ossietzky Medal 1964: Carl von Ossietzky Medal (won)
- German Leo Baeck Award 1960: German Leo Baeck Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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