Klaus Doldinger

Saxophonist

Birthday May 12, 1936

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Germany

DEATH DATE Oct 16, 2025 (89)

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About

Jazz saxophonist, film music composer, and winner of a Bavarian Film Award in 1997. He created the project Passport in the early 1970s and it has performed for decades.

Before fame

He attended a conservatory in Düsseldorf and went on to play with The Feetwarmers, a German Dixieland band.

Trivia

He was featured on the score for The Neverending Story.

Family life

In 1960, he married Inge Beck and they had three children.

Associated with

Doldinger composed the score for the movie Das Boot, which featured Herbert Groenemeyer.