"Mensch Gott!" - Concert with reading with Wolf Biermann

Musical reading with Wolf Biermann

At the "Zeitzer Extralesung", Wolf Biermann presents the testimonies of a non-believer in a lifelong dispute with God and "God's ground staff" at a concert and reading at the Capitol Zeitz entitled "Mensch Gott! The evening will be moderated by Andreas Öhler.
Wolf Biermann was born in Hamburg in 1936. His father, a communist and Jew, was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943. Biermann moved to the GDR in 1953. First songs and poems since 1960.
Since November 1965, total ban on performing and publishing. Wolf Biermann became the most radical critic against the party dictatorship of the GDR. Publications in West Germany.
In 1976, Wolf Biermann was expatriated - against all legal norms. The expatriation triggered an unexpectedly large protest movement in East and West. He returns to Hamburg.
Wolf Biermann has been awarded all the major German literary prizes. His volumes of poetry are among the best-selling in post-war German literature. He gives concerts in many countries around the world and is known for his sharp-tongued essays with which he intervenes provocatively in the politics of the day. Wolf Biermann's works have been published in many European languages (in Sweden, France, Spain, England, Italy, Slovenia, Denmark, Poland, Holland, Bulgaria, Portugal, Russia), as well as in the USA, South Korea, Japan and Israel.