Actor · Songs
Born Nov 15, 1936 · Hamburg, Germany
Active 1966–present · Awards: honorary citizen of Berlin, Georg Büchner Prize, Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Honorary doctor of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Fontane-Preis, Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis, Mörike-Preis der Stadt Fellbach, Heinrich Heine Prize
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.