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Klaus Doldinger (1936-2025)

Posted: October 18, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Klaus Doldinger passed away this past Thursday at age 89 in Munich, Germany. The jazz musician, composer and arranger wrote numerous scores for film and television between the late 1960s and the late 2010s. His best known feature scoring credits include Wolfgang Petersen’s Academy Award-nominated 1981 submarine war epic Das Boot, Petersen’s 1984 fantasy adventure […]

Sky Germany and Bavaria Fiction have announced today that Matthias Weber is the composer of the Sky original limited series Das Boot and incorporated the classic theme from Wolfgang Petersen’s original 1981 Das Boot movie and the 1985 mini-series of the same title written by Klaus Doldinger into his score. The new show is directed by Andreas Prochaska and stars Vicky […]