Wolf Biermann was born on November 15, 1936 in Hamburg, Germany. He is a composer and actor, known for Born in '45 (1990), Novalis - Die blaue Blume (1993) and Mensch Biermann! (1977). He has been married to Pamela Rüsche since 1989. They have three children. He was previously married to Christine Barg.
Famous German Democratic Republic singer-songwriter who was stripped from his citizenship whilst being on tour in West Germany. In the following weeks, many leading GDR intellectuals and artists such as Christa Wolf, Stefan Heym, Katharina Thalbach, Manfred Krug or Armin Mueller-Stahl protested against the socialist rulers (1976).
Received 'Grosses Bundesverdienstkreuz' (West Germany's highest state
decoration) (15 November 2006).
His father, a Communist resistance fighter of Jewish descent, was
murdered in the Nazi German concentration camp Auschwitz in
1943.
Formed the Workers' and Students' Theater in 1961, whose show "Berliner
Brautgang" documented the building of the Berlin wall. Two years later,
the authorities shut it down, while Biermann was refused membership in
the ruling party SED.