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Wolf Biermann
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Wolf Biermann
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1936-11-15,Hamburg, Germany
Gender
Male
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 1943. Biermann was one of the few children of workers who attended the Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium (high school) in Hamburg. After the Second World War, he became a member of the Free German Youth (Freie Deutsche Jugend, FDJ) and in 1950, he represented the Federal Republic of Germany at the FDJ's first national meeting. Upon finishing school at the age of 17, Biermann emigrated from West to East Germany where he believed he could live out his Communist ideals. He lived at a boarding school near Schwerin until 1955, and then began studying political economics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. From 1957 to 1959, he was an assistant director at the Berliner Ensemble. At university he changed courses to study philosophy and mathematics under Wolfgang Heise until 1963, when he completed his thesis. Despite his successful defense of his thesis, he did not receive his diploma until 2008 when he was also awarded an honorary doctorate degree. In 1960, Biermann met composer Hanns Eisler, who adopted the young artist as a protégé. Biermann began writing poetry and songs. Eisler used his influence with the East German cultural elite to promote the songwriter's career, but his death in 1962 deprived Biermann of his mentor and protector. In 1961, Biermann formed the Berliner Arbeiter-Theater ("Berlin Workers' Theater"), which was closed in 1963 before the production of Biermann's show Berliner Brautgang, which documented the building of the Berlin wall. The play was officially banned and Biermann was forbidden to perform for six months. Although a committed communist, Biermann's nonconformist views soon alarmed the East German establishment. In 1963, he was refused membership in the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), although no reason was given at the time for his rejection. After the Wende, documents available from Biermann's file at the Stasi Records Agency revealed that the reviewers were under the impression that he was a regular user of stimulants, leading to the rejection of his application. ... Source: Article "Wolf Biermann" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

Stasi: A State Against Its People

9

Stasi: A State Against Its People
2021-10-03

Germany in Autumn

6.31

Germany in Autumn
1978-03-03

BAP - Ode to Cologne

6.5

BAP - Ode to Cologne
2002-03-07

5.167

Berlin 1990
1990-11-08

0

Biermann
2026-10-29

7

Heut' abend
1980-02-03

8

Leute
1983-03-07

ZDF-Mittagsmagazin

6

ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
1989-10-02

Auf der Lesebühne der Literarischen Illustrierten

0

Auf der Lesebühne der Literarischen Illustrierten
1965-09-23

Victoires de la musique

3.3

Victoires de la musique
1985-11-23

Schmidt & Pocher

3.2

Schmidt & Pocher
2007-10-25

Wetten, dass..?

5.4

Wetten, dass..?
1981-02-14

Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis

0

Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis
1972-01-01

phoenix persönlich

0

phoenix persönlich
2018-06-08

Le Grand Échiquier

8

Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12

0

Schawinski
2011-08-22

4.429

Volle Kanne
1999-08-30

5.5

Markus Lanz
2008-06-03

6.75

Kölner Treff
1976-01-25

4.7

Nachtcafé
1987-02-14

Sabine Christiansen

10

Sabine Christiansen
1998-01-04

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

9

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
2002-04-06

4.7

DAS!
1991-01-02

9

Club 2
1976-11-01

6.6

NDR Talk Show
1979-02-09

7.2

3 nach 9
1974-11-19

5

Koschwitz
2000-04-10

0

Zur Person
1963-04-10

NDR Kultur – Das Journal

0

NDR Kultur – Das Journal
2002-04-29

0

Weimarer Salon
2001-04-03

0

Nachtstudio
1997-09-03

0

Stöckl
2013-01-28

0

Our Best
2003-11-28

5.25

Riverboat
1992-01-03

0

Im Palais
2004-05-04

0

Litera-Tour
1976-03-14

0

Fröhlich lesen
2005-06-12

0

Erlesen
2010-11-03

6

Thadeusz
2005-12-05

0

Im Dialog
1997-01-17

5.333

Morgenmagazin
1992-07-19

Das Jahrhundert des Kabaretts

0

Das Jahrhundert des Kabaretts
2001-01-01

Sternstunde Philosophie

0

Sternstunde Philosophie
1998-04-08