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Wolfgang Thierse
German politician
Wolfgang Thierse (German pronunciation:[ˈvɔlfɡaŋˈtiːɐ̯zə]; born 22 October ) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as the 11th president of the Bundestag from to
Early life and career
[edit]Thierse was born in Breslau (Wrocław in present-day Poland). He is a Roman Catholic and grew up in East Germany. After his A-levels he first worked as a typesetter in Weimar. Then he studied German language and literature at Humboldt University in Berlin, where he was an active member of the Catholic Student Community.[1] He also became a research assistant in the university's Department of Cultural Theory / Aesthetics. In –76 he was employed by the Ministry of Culture of the German Democratic Republic. But when he joined the protests against the expulsion of singer-songwriter and dissident Wolf Biermann from the GDR he lost his job.[2]
From to Thierse worked as a research assistant at the Central Institute of the History of Literature in the Academy of Arts and Sciences of the GDR. He was one of the editors of the "Historical Dictionary of Aesthetic Concepts".
Early political career
[edit]Although his father had been a member of the Centre Party in the Weimar Republic and later
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Germany's eternal dissident: Singer Wolf Biermann
Wolf Biermann's career is so directly intertwined with the history of East and West Germany that Berlin's Deutsches Historisches Museum (German History Museum) is now dedicating an exhibition to the poet and songwriter. Upon finishing school, he left Hamburg to emigrate to East Germany, as he believed he could live out his communist ideals there. But then the protest singer was spied upon by the Stasi, the German Democratic Republic's (GDR) secret police. Banned from performing in the East, he was eventually expatriated back to the West.
Learning he was expatriated from the radio
After being forbidden to perform publicly for 11 years by the East German authorities, on November 13, , Wolf Biermann was surprised to be allowed to travel to Cologne for a concert. That night, sitting on a bar stool with his sleeves rolled up, armed with only his a guitar, he mocked and protested against the (GDR) to a crowd of 7, people.
Although the singer-songwriter was not allowed to distribute his recordings in East Germany, his songs were so popular in West Germany that they had found their way back into the GDR in the form of clandestine copies.
Three days later, still on tour in West Germany