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Wolf Biermann - Biography
Karl Wolf Biermann (born 15 November 1936 in Hamburg) is a German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident.
Biography
Early life
Biermann's father, who worked on the Hamburg docks, was a German Jew and a member of the German Resistance.
Biermann was one of the few children of workers who attended the Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium (high school) in Hamburg. After the Second World War, in 1953, he became a member of the Free German Youth (Freie Deutsche Jugend, FDJ) and in 1950 1953, he represented the Federal Republic of Germany at the FDJ's first national meeting.
Deutsches miserere wolf biermann biography
East Germany
On finishing school at the age of 17, Biermann decided to emigrate from West to East Germany where he believed he could live out his Communist ideals. He was helped in this move by Margot Honecker who knew him from their youth.
Until 1955 he lived at a boarding school near Schwerin. Then he began studying political economics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. From