Eva-Maria Hagen

Born on Oct 19, 1934, Eva-Maria Hagen started her stage profession in 1953, even now under Bertolt Brecht who was simply then boss from the world-famous Berliner Outfit theatre. When she began a relationship using the ostracized songwriter and poet Wolf Biermann in 1965, the GDR government bodies began harassing her, resulting in subsequent bans on her behalf are a performer and celebrity. In 1977, after protesting against Biermann’s expulsion from your GDR the entire year before, Hagen was pressured to relocate to Western Germany herself and resolved in Hamburg. Following that she started an effective career interpreting tunes by Wolf Biermann and Bertolt Brecht. Her debut recording, Nicht Liebe Ohne pass away Liebe (1979), was a assortment of Russian and Gypsy folk tunes translated into German by Wolf Biermann. Biermann began to create tunes on her behalf which she released around the recording Ich Leb’ Mein Leben in 1981. On Das mit den Männern und Den Frau’n (1985) and Michael, Michael (1986) she continuing the cooperation with Biermann. Following the fall from the wall structure in 1989, she was finally permitted to perform once again in East Germany. Besides many theatre and film tasks, aswell as exhibitions of her paintings, she continuing release a CDs: Wenn Ich Erstmal Losleg (1996) with fresh Biermann tunes using Baltic folk materials, and on the event of Brecht’s 100th birthday she released Joe, Mach pass away Musik von Damals Nach (1997). Her publication Eva und der Wolf (1998) about her period as well as Biermann was a huge hit in Germany. In 1999 she released another recording with Biermann tunes: Eva Singt Wolfslieder.