Wolf Biermann RE:IMAGINED - Lieder fur jetzt!

Clouds Hill, the Hamburg indie label around producer and author Johann Scheerer, has purchased the rights to the complete work of Wolf Biermann, which amounts to about 300 songs - with the aim of making his music accessible again. But this is not about an expansion of the label catalogue: Wolf and Pamela Biermann in close dialogue with Johann Scheerer have designed a plan to build a bridge from Biermann's work to the present time. The aim is to make this still relevant music, which in a crisis-ridden Europe is now more topical than ever, accessible to a wider audience for a renewable generation. So the Clouds Hill Studio in Hamburg is intensively working on various cover pieces, of which there will still be a lot to hear.

Wolf Biermann, witness and protagonist of a turbulent time, has always spoken loudly to express his criticism of the prevailing conditions - and now finds support in a young generation that is artistically characterised by the tone of the artist born in Hamburg in 1936, who moved to the GDR as a young man to because he cannot be censored there.

Biermann's relevance is evident not least in a currently large retrospective of the German Historical Museum, which makes it understandable how Biermann has always been a seismograph of his home country since his first artistic successes in the 1960s, through which his father was murdered in Auschwitz and to which he has always kept a split relationship.

Johann Scheerer sees it almost as imperative to make music that is also dedicated to a wide audience in an emancipatory sense - and to put it in a new spotlight through the ambitious cover project. In a time when Europe is plagued by wars and the political climate is also intensifying in Germany, this voice needs more than ever.