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Wolf Biermann

Wolf Biermann

Actor · Born 1936-11-15 · Hamburg, Germany

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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 u…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Germany in Autumn (1978) — Self
  2. Wetten, dass..? (1981) — Self
  3. Markus Lanz (2008) — Self
  4. Volle Kanne (1999) — Self
  5. Berlin 1990 (1990) — Self
  6. DAS! (1991) — Self
  7. BAP - Ode to Cologne (2002) — Self
  8. NDR Talk Show (1979) — Self
  9. 3 nach 9 (1974) — Self
  10. Kölner Treff (1976) — Self
  11. Riverboat (1992) — Self
  12. Victoires de la musique (1985) — Self
  13. Le Grand Échiquier (1972) — Self
  14. Nachtcafé (1987) — Self
  15. Morgenmagazin (1992) — Self
  16. Stasi: A State Against Its People (2021) — Self (archive footage)
  17. Schmidt & Pocher (2007)
  18. Koschwitz (2000) — Self
  19. Heut' abend (1980) — self
  20. Leute (1983) — Self
  21. ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (1989) — Self
  22. Sabine Christiansen (1998) — Self
  23. Das Jahrhundert des Theaters (2002) — Self
  24. Club 2 (1976) — Self
  25. Thadeusz (2005) — self
  26. Biermann (2026) — Self
  27. Auf der Lesebühne der Literarischen Illustrierten (1965) — Self
  28. Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis (1972) — Self
  29. phoenix persönlich (2018) — Self
  30. Schawinski (2011) — Self
  31. Zur Person (1963) — Self
  32. NDR Kultur – Das Journal (2002) — Self
  33. Weimarer Salon (2001) — Self
  34. Nachtstudio (1997) — Self
  35. Stöckl (2013) — Self
  36. Our Best (2003) — Self
  37. Im Palais (2004) — Self
  38. Litera-Tour (1976) — Self
  39. Fröhlich lesen (2005) — Self
  40. Erlesen (2010) — self