# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/georg-katzer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:44:50.670Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/georg-katzer"
name: "Georg Katzer"
slug: "georg-katzer"
description: "Georg Katzer was a German composer and teacher. The last master student of Hanns Eisler, he composed music in many genres, including works for the stage. Katzer was one of the pioneers of electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic and the founder of the first electronic-music studio in the GDR. He held leading positions in music organisations, first in the East, then in the united Germany, and received many awards, including the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic, the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the German Music Authors' Prize."
tagline: "German composer and teacher (1935–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Georg_katzer.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1935-01-10"
deathDate: "2019-05-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.44
  momentum:             0.588235294117647
  historical:           6.407344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0441909/"
    handle:    "nm0441909"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.georgkatzer.de/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "چورچ كاتزير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Katzer"
    title: "Georg Katzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Katzer"
    title: "Georg Katzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Katzer"
    title: "Georg Katzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Katzer"
    title: "Georg Katzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3013b191-017d-4fd6-bff9-64ecec817b18"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1504962"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1665933"
    title: "Georg Katzer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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