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- The Exile of Wolf Biermann East Germany's most famous singer-songwriter was exiled to the West in November 1976 for his political songs.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvtsfBBC World Service - Witness History, The Exile of Wolf Biermann
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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 . [ 7 ]
Nov 4, 2019 · The expatriation of Biermann triggered a process that helped lead to the collapse of the Berlin Wall 13 years later, the wall that had separated East and West Germany.
Nov 4, 2019 · At the age of 16, Wolf Biermann left the town where he grew up, Hamburg in West Germany, and emigrated to East Germany, where he first lived in a boarding school.
Jul 7, 2023 · Upon finishing school, he left Hamburg to emigrate to East Germany, as he believed he could live out his communist ideals there.
His expulsion from the GDR in 1976 was a turning point in post-war “German-German” history. Unlike less well-known artists, Biermann had become too popular to be arrested and too unpredictable to allow him to perform in public.
Aug 11, 2021 · East Germany's most famous singer-songwriter was exiled to the West in November 1976, causing an international outcry. Wolf Biermann was stripped of his GDR citizenship while on tour in...
May 7, 2023 · When in 1989 the civil rights movement in East Germany grew stronger and the government began to totter, Biermann was forced to remain a passive onlooker. He was not permitted to cross into East Berlin and could not participate in the demonstration at Alexanderplatz on 4 November 1989.
