# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-marszalek
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:29:58.264Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-marszalek"
name: "Franz Marszalek"
slug: "franz-marszalek"
description: "Franz Marszalek was a German conductor and composer, who was a leading figure in operetta. He began his studies in Wrocław, and moved to Berlin in 1933. He conducted the Cologne Radio Orchestra from 1949 to 1965, with an emphasis on operetta music. He was a longtime friend of the operetta composer Eduard Künneke, whose music he championed in concerts and in recordings with the Cologne Radio Orchestra and the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra."
tagline: "German conductor (1900–1975)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1900-08-02"
deathDate: "1975-10-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.15
  momentum:             8.555900621118013
  historical:           6.80756
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551380/"
    handle:    "nm0551380"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/696150"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "فرانز مارسزاليك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Marszalek"
    title: "Franz Marszalek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Marszalek"
    title: "Franz Marszalek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Marszalek"
    title: "Franz Marszalek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Marszalek"
    title: "Franz Marszalek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Marszalek"
    title: "Franz Marszalek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8f3758c0-399f-4568-af36-886ccbcd2a78"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q515433"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump