# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helmut-roloff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:49:56.828Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helmut-roloff"
name: "Helmut Roloff"
slug: "helmut-roloff"
description: "Helmut Roloff  was a German pianist, recording artist, teacher and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. In September 1942 Roloff was arrested in Berlin in the roundup of an anti-Nazi resistance group allegedly at the centre of a wider European espionage network identified by the Abwehr under the cryptonym the Red Orchestra. Covered by comrades who persuaded their interrogators that his contact with the group had been unwitting, he was spared execution and released. In post-war West Berlin, Roloff taught at the Academy of Music. After serving as the school's director, he retired in 1978."
tagline: "German musician and spy (1912–2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CIC_RO_H_Roloff_detail.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: "1912-10-09"
deathDate: "2001-09-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.53
  momentum:             5.892857142857141
  historical:           7.008784
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1588864"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "هيلموت رولوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Roloff"
    title: "Helmut Roloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Roloff"
    title: "Helmut Roloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Roloff"
    title: "Helmut Roloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%98%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AD%E3%83%95"
    title: "ヘルムート・ロロフ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%84%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%82"
    title: "Ролоф, Гельмут"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/89b4e111-2a54-44e0-be55-3a5c402a5e60"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86238"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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