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Wolf Biermann

Wolf Biermann
  • Name: Wolf Biermann
  • Birthday: 1936-11-15
  • Place of birth: Hamburg, Germany
  • Popularity: 0.885
Biography: Karl Wolf Biermann (born 15 November 1936) is a German singer-songwriter, poet, and former East German dissident. He is perhaps best known for the 1968 song "Ermutigung" and his expatriation from East Germany in 1976. Biermann was born in Hamburg, Germany. His mother, Emma (née Dietrich), was a Communist Party activist, and his father, Dagobert Biermann, worked on the Hamburg docks. Biermann's father, a Jewish member of the German Resistance, was sentenced to six years in prison for sabotaging Nazi ships. In 1942, the Nazis decided to eliminate their Jewish political prisoners and Biermann's father was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was murdered on 22 February... Read More

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Title Release date
Stasi, un État contre son peuple   as  Self (archive footage) 2021-10-03
BAP - Viel Passiert   as  Self 2002-03-07
Strictly Propaganda 1992-02-14
Berliner Ballade   as  Self 1990-11-08
Germany in Autumn   as  Self 1978-03-03