Karl Wolf Biermann 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.
Wolf Biermann photographed by Oliver Mark, Hamburg 2007
Biermann in 2008
Biermann 1977 in Hamburg
Hanns Eisler was a German-Austrian composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. The Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin is named after him.
Eisler in 1940
Eisler in uniform, 1917
Hanns Eisler (left) and Bertolt Brecht, his close friend and collaborator, East Berlin, 1950
Grave of honor of Eisler and his third wife Stephanie (Steffy) Wolf at the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery