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Wolf Biermann

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Hearing Biermann without seeing only the dissident

Wolf Biermann turns ninety on 15 November 2026. His songs are inseparable from the conflict surrounding the GDR – yet they are more than records of that conflict: linguistic and musical forms that still take risks today.

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Wolf Biermann: A Life Beyond the Loss of Citizenship

Jens Meurer’s documentary ‘Biermann’ opens in cinemas on 29 October — shortly before Wolf Biermann’s 90th birthday and five decades after he was stripped of his GDR citizenship. That historical rupture shaped the singer-songwriter’s public image. But it is not the whole life, nor the whole body of work.

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