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Florian is his middle name. On September 12, 1957, he was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.1)
He grew up in Königstein-Falkenstein, where he played the piano at home but only briefly since he loathed the discipline of regular tuition.As a youngster, he relocated to London and attended Hurtwood House School.2)
Zimmer acknowledged his Jewish heritage in a speech at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival, recounting his mother's flight to England in 1939.3)