# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tilo-medek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:27:56.638Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tilo-medek"
name: "Tilo Medek"
slug: "tilo-medek"
description: "Tilo Medek, originally Müller-Medek, was a German classical composer, musicologist and music publisher. He grew up in East Germany, but was inspired by the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He composed radio plays and incidental music. His setting of Lenin's Decree on Peace led to restrictions, and after he showed solidarity with the expatriated Wolf Biermann, he also had to move to the West, where he composed an opera Katharina Blum based on Heinrich Böll's novel, and worked in education. He received international awards from 1967 onwards."
tagline: "German composer and musicologist (1940-2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jena_Nordfriedhof_Medek.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: "1940-01-22"
deathDate: "2006-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.64
  momentum:             0.1058201058201058
  historical:           7.673542666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2100071/"
    handle:    "nm2100071"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.medek.net/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/739232"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilo_Medek"
    title: "Tilo Medek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "تيلو ميديك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilo_Medek"
    title: "Tilo Medek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilo_Medek"
    title: "Tilo Medek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilo_Medek"
    title: "Tilo Medek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilo_Medek"
    title: "Tilo Medek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%88%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "ٹیلو میڈیک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fd81d4d3-d4b0-47d2-b464-0533df4b10c9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100471"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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