After reading some more about the topic, I tend to use one
of the following:

Copyright 20XX The Geany authors and contributors

Copyright 20XX The Geany contributors

with replacing the year with the first year in the
existing copyright notices (i.e. use the first "publication").
I tried to find good and authoritative examples of projects which
already solved this but only found a wide variety of different
copyright notices.

What I actually would like to remove are the names we currently have
in the source files. I wasn't aware this is not strictly necessary
legally and so never thought about it.
As you stated, the detailed authorship of a file and even single code
lines can be queried much more appropriate by the VCS.

https://opensource.com/law/14/2/copyright-statements-source-files has a
nice explanation why author names are not a good idea in copyright
notices: false implications by contributors thinking this is the
authors' code or they need to add themselves for proper crediting
and maybe more.

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