Wolf Biermann

The German poet and songwriter and former East German dissident Wolf Biermann is famous for his scathing critique of “real socialism”, his poetry, which is amongst the best-selling of German post-war literature, and his sharp-tongued essays, with which he provokingly interferes in day-to-day politics. Biermann’s prolific life generated 24 LPs and more than 40 publications of poetry, translations, adaptations, political essays, sheet music and audiobooks. In addition, he produced a chronicle of his times, filling 6 decades’ worth of analytical observation into his meticulously kept diary. The Autobiography “Warte nicht auf bessre Zeiten!” (Don’t wait for better times!) published in 2016, offers these observations as a personal distillate of German history. Biermann still gives concerts and readings across Germany and abroad.