28th December 2025
BBC Radio 3 and online
Delighted to join various speakers for: Wolf Biermann - the German Bob Dylan
Sunday feature 28 December 2025, BBC Radio 3
The incredible events that led to folk musician and protest singer Wolf Biermann - hailed as the German Bob Dylan - to be exiled from the GDR. Biermann’s expulsion in 1976 fuelled his popularity and triggered a mass protest movement that led to the exodus of many prominent artists and intellectuals from East Germany, along with the imprisonment of many freedom-of-speech campaigners. Biermann’s expulsion has been cited widely as one of the factors that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall thirteen years later.