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name: "Klaus Doldinger"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/klaus-doldinger"
fi1m_id: "klaus-doldinger"
imdb_id: "nm0006041"
tmdb_id: 5240
wikidata_id: "Q62961"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "12 May 1936"
died: "16 October 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 86
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T10:49:11.172670+00:00"
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# Klaus Doldinger

## Identity

Klaus Doldinger

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/klaus-doldinger
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** klaus-doldinger
- **IMDb ID:** nm0006041
- **TMDB ID:** 5240
- **Wikidata ID:** Q62961
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Doldinger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62961, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006041/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5240

Composer. Born 12 May 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Died 16 October 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 12 May 1936, Berlin, Germany
- **Died:** 16 October 2025
- **Active:** 1981–1985
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Doldinger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62961, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006041/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5240

## Biography

Klaus Doldinger was a German composer and saxophonist. He was born in Berlin in 1936 and studied piano and clarinet at the Düsseldorf Conservatory from 1947, graduating in 1957. He began performing professionally in the 1950s with groups including The Feetwarmers and later founded the jazz-fusion band Passport in 1971.

Doldinger composed the scores for the films *Das Boot* (1981) and *The NeverEnding Story* (1984). He also wrote the theme music for the German television series *Tatort*, which has aired since 1970, as well as music for other series including *Liebling Kreuzberg* and *Ein Fall für zwei*.

He died on 16 October 2025 in Icking, Germany.

*Sources: hollywoodreporter.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Das Boot* (1985), Fi1m 84, Sound Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/das-boot-1985.md)
- *Das Boot* (1981), Fi1m 89, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/das-boot.md)

## Complete filmography (54)

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

- *Jazzfieber - The Story of German Jazz* (2023), Actor
- *Klaus Doldinger's Passport - Live in Leverkusen 2019* (2019), as Musiker
- *Das doppelte Lottchen* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films* (2017), Actor
- *Wacht am Rhein* (2017), as Straßenmusiker
- *Udo Lindenberg: Stärker als die Zeit - Live* (2016), Actor
- *Doomsday: World War I* (2012), series, Music
- *Der Bulle und das Landei - Tödliches Heimweh* (2010), Music
- *Die Frau, die im Wald verschwand* (2009), Music
- *Ein Leben wie im Flug* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Василиса* (2000), Music
- *Zimmer mit Frühstück* (2000), Music
- *Palmetto* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Living Dead* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Alles wegen Robert De Niro* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *Wer hat Angst vorm Weihnachtsmann?* (1996), Music
- *Alles außer Mord* (1994), series, Original Music Composer
- *Die Wildnis* (1993), Music
- *Salt on Our Skin* (1992), Music
- *Hurenglück* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Der Erfolg ihres Lebens* (1990), series, Original Music Composer
- *Abenteuer Airport* (1990), series, as Erster Saxophonist
- *Me and Him* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *The Case of Mr. Spalt* (1988), Original Music Composer, Music
- *A Father's Revenge* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *Flug in die Hölle* (1985), series, Music
- *Das Boot* (1985), series, Sound Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/das-boot-1985.md)
- *The NeverEnding Story* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Love is Forever* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *The Roaring Fifties* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Satan ist auf Gottes Seite* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Das Boot* (1981), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/das-boot.md)
- *A Case For Two* (1981), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Fall* (1979), Music
- *Black and White Like Day and Night* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *The Second Awakening of Christa Klages* (1978), Music
- *Moritz, Dear Moritz* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *The Leading Man* (1977), Music
- *Eichholz & Söhne* (1977), series, Music
- *Paradiso* (1977), Music
- *Four Against the Bank* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *The Swiss Conspiracy* (1976), Music
- *Alle Jahre wieder – Die Familie Semmeling* (1976), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Net* (1975), Original Music Composer
- *To the Bitter End* (1975), Original Music Composer
- *One or the Other of Us* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *...But Johnny!* (1973), Original Music Composer
- *Polizeiruf 110* (1971), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach* (1971), Music
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, Original Music Composer, Music
- *Eine Rose für Jane* (1970), Music
- *Baal* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *Negresco* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *Wirb oder stirb* (1968), Music

## Gallery

- ![Klaus Doldinger and his curved saxophone in 2015 in Hannover with Passport featuring the Scales brothers](https://film.one/media/person/103070/gallery-b06d65e7631b.jpg) Klaus Doldinger and his curved saxophone in 2015 in Hannover with Passport featuring the Scales brothers — Jazzdoldy00, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Doldinger_live_2015.jpg/1280px-Doldinger_live_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Klaus Doldinger bei der Verleihung des Grimme-Preises 2014.](https://film.one/media/person/103070/gallery-4707f2e340db.jpg) Klaus Doldinger bei der Verleihung des Grimme-Preises 2014. — Krd, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Grimmepreis_2014_051.jpg/1280px-Grimmepreis_2014_051.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Klaus Doldinger bei der Verleihung des Grimme-Preises 2014.](https://film.one/media/person/103070/gallery-44107bbcc544.jpg) Klaus Doldinger bei der Verleihung des Grimme-Preises 2014. — Krd, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Grimmepreis_2014_052.jpg/1280px-Grimmepreis_2014_052.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Helen Schneider and Klaus Doldinger (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/103070/gallery-947b2814d40d.jpg) Helen Schneider and Klaus Doldinger (2013) — AngMoKio, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Helen_Schneider_Klaus_Doldinger_2013_amk.jpg/1280px-Helen_Schneider_Klaus_Doldinger_2013_amk.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Klaus Doldinger](https://film.one/media/person/103070/gallery-9e2882e2c6dc.jpg) Klaus Doldinger — Image via TMDB
- ![Inge Doldinger and Klaus Doldinger in Morocco on Tour with the band Passport, November 2005](https://film.one/media/person/103070/gallery-51f78eafad1f.jpg) Inge Doldinger and Klaus Doldinger in Morocco on Tour with the band Passport, November 2005 — Octagon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Inge_Doldinger_und_Klaus_Doldinger.jpg/1280px-Inge_Doldinger_und_Klaus_Doldinger.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Klaus Doldinger Quartett 2009 (Michael Hornek - piano, Patrick Scales - bass, Christian Lettner - drums)](https://film.one/media/person/103070/gallery-87cf5f916617.jpg) Klaus Doldinger Quartett 2009 (Michael Hornek - piano, Patrick Scales - bass, Christian Lettner - drums) — Stephan Wirwalski, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Klaus-Doldinger-Quartett-2009.jpg/1280px-Klaus-Doldinger-Quartett-2009.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 4 won

- Bavarian TV Awards 2010: Bavarian TV Awards (won)
- Frankfurter Musikpreis 2000: Frankfurter Musikpreis (won)
- Paul-Lincke-Ring 1999: Paul-Lincke-Ring (won)
- Echo Pop Honorary Award 1996: Echo Pop Honorary Award (won)

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

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