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Wolf Biermann

Karl Wolf Biermann (born 15 November 1936) is a German singer-songwriter, poet, and former East German dissident. He is perhaps best known for the 1968 song "Ermutigung" and his expatriation from East Germany in 1976. Biermann was born in Hamburg, Germany. His mother, Emma (née Dietrich), was a Communist Party activist, and his father, Dagobert Biermann, worked on the Hamburg docks. Biermann's father, a Jewish member of the German Resistance, was sentenced to six years in prison for sabotaging Nazi ships. In 1942, the Nazis decided to eliminate their Jewish political prisoners and Biermann's father was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was murdered on 22 February 1943. Biermann was one of the few children of workers who attended the Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium (high school) in Hamburg. After the Second World War, he became a member of the Free German Youth (Freie Deutsche Jugend, FDJ) and in 1950, he represented the Federal Republic of Germany at the FDJ's first national meeting. 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. From 1957 to 1959, he was an assistant director at the Berliner Ensemble. At university he changed courses to study philosophy and mathematics under Wolfgang Heise until 1963, when he completed his thesis. Despite his successful defense of his thesis, he did not receive his diploma until 2008 when he was also awarded an honorary doctorate degree. In 1960, Biermann met composer Hanns Eisler, who adopted the young artist as a protégé. Biermann began writing poetry and songs. Eisler used his influence with the East German cultural elite to promote the songwriter's career, but his death in 1962 deprived Biermann of his mentor and protector. In 1961, Biermann formed the Berliner Arbeiter-Theater ("Berlin Workers' Theater"), which was closed in 1963 before the production of Biermann's show Berliner Brautgang, which documented the building of the Berlin wall. The play was officially banned and Biermann was forbidden to perform for six months. Although a committed communist, Biermann's nonconformist views soon alarmed the East German establishment. In 1963, he was refused membership in the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), although no reason was given at the time for his rejection. After the Wende, documents available from Biermann's file at the Stasi Records Agency revealed that the reviewers were under the impression that he was a regular user of stimulants, leading to the rejection of his application. ... Source: Article "Wolf Biermann" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0. Born : 15th-Nov-1936

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Stasi, un État contre son peuple

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.
Released : 3rd-Oct-2021

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Germany in Autumn

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.
Released : 3rd-Mar-1978

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Strictly Propaganda

A realistic satire about the path of the German Democratic Republic from its foundation until its 40th birthday. This eye-opening film tells the history of the German Democratic Republic through East Germany's official newsreels and state films.
Released : 14th-Feb-1992

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BAP - Viel Passiert

Documentary about the rock group BAP from Cologne in Germany.
Released : 7th-Mar-2002

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Berliner Ballade

Some months after the fall of the Berlin wall, during the time of federal elections in Germany in 1990, Chris Marker shot this passionate documentary, reflecting the state of the place and its spirit with remarkable acuity.
Released : 8th-Nov-1990

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Heut' abend

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Released : 3rd-Feb-1980

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Leute

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Released : 7th-Mar-1983

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ZDF-Mittagsmagazin

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Released : 2nd-Oct-1989

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Victoires de la musique

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Released : 23rd-Nov-1985

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Schmidt & Pocher

- Schmidt & Pocher is a German late night talk show hosted on Das Erste by comedians Harald Schmidt and Oliver Pocher in the Thursday 10.45 pm time slot from 25 October 2007 to 16 April 2009. It was the successor of Harald Schmidt on the same network.
Released : 25th-Oct-2007

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Wetten, dass..?

Self - A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
Released : 14th-Feb-1981

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Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis

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Released : 1st-Jan-1972

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phoenix persönlich

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Released : 8th-Jun-2018

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Le Grand Échiquier

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Released : 12th-Jan-1972

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Schawinski

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Released : 22nd-Aug-2011

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Volle Kanne

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Released : 30th-Aug-1999

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Markus Lanz

Self - TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics.
Released : 3rd-Jun-2008

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Kölner Treff

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Released : 25th-Jan-1976

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Nachtcafé

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Released : 14th-Feb-1987

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Sabine Christiansen

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Released : 4th-Jan-1998

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Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

Self - "The Century of the Theater" - From the "birth of the director" to the "heroes of modernity" - an overview of the world of theater - illuminates the interaction with the history of the past hundred years is also shown.
Released : 6th-Apr-2002

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DAS!

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Released : 2nd-Jan-1991

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Club 2

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Released : 1st-Nov-1976

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NDR Talk Show

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Released : 9th-Feb-1979

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3 nach 9

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Released : 19th-Nov-1974

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Koschwitz

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Released : 10th-Apr-2000

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Zur Person

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Released : 10th-Apr-1963

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NDR Kultur – Das Journal

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Released : 29th-Apr-2002

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Weimarer Salon

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Released : 3rd-Apr-2001

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Nachtstudio

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Released : 3rd-Sep-1997

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Stöckl

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Released : 28th-Jan-2013

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NZZ Standpunkte

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Released : 1st-Aug-2007

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Unsere Besten

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Released : 28th-Nov-2003

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Riverboat

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Released : 3rd-Jan-1992

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Titel, Thesen, Temperamente

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Released : 4th-Dec-1967

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Im Palais

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Released : 4th-May-2004

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Litera-Tour

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Released : 14th-Mar-1976

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Fröhlich lesen

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Released : 12th-Jun-2005

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Erlesen

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Released : 3rd-Nov-2010

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Thadeusz

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Released : 5th-Dec-2005

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Im Dialog

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Released : 17th-Jan-1997

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Morgenmagazin

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Released : 19th-Jul-1992

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