# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-hoenig
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:21:58.921Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-hoenig"
name: "Michael Hoenig"
slug: "michael-hoenig"
description: "Michael Hoenig is a German composer who has composed music for several films and games, in addition to two solo albums, including the highly acclaimed 1978 album Departure from the Northern Wasteland. In 1997, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music for composing the theme to the science fiction series Dark Skies."
tagline: "German composer"
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: "1952-01-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.28
  momentum:             11.1461738002594
  historical:           10.77260933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006129/"
    handle:    "nm0006129"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/95871"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "ميتشايل هوينيج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hoenig"
    title: "Michael Hoenig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hoenig"
    title: "Michael Hoenig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hoenig"
    title: "Michael Hoenig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hoenig"
    title: "Michael Hoenig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hoenig"
    title: "Michael Hoenig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hoenig"
    title: "Michael Hoenig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%92%E3%83%A3%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%83%92"
    title: "ミヒャエル・ヘーニッヒ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hoenig"
    title: "Michael Hoenig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Хениг, Михаэль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3215500f-f03e-4adf-94fe-5ca842e17f5b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q879793"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52953"
    title: "Michael Hoenig"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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