# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/udo-zimmermann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:26:28.100Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/udo-zimmermann"
name: "Udo Zimmermann"
slug: "udo-zimmermann"
description: "Udo Zimmermann was a German composer, musicologist, opera director, and conductor. He worked as a professor of composition, founded a centre for contemporary music in Dresden, and was director of the Leipzig Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He directed a contemporary music series for the Bayerischer Rundfunk and a European centre of the arts in Hellerau. His operas, especially Weiße Rose, on a topic he set to music twice, have been performed internationally, and recorded."
tagline: "German composer, musicologist, opera director, and conductor (1943–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Udo_Zimmermann.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: "1943-10-06"
deathDate: "2021-10-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             16.63963963963964
  historical:           15.55658933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1107378/"
    handle:    "nm1107378"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump