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Family Arguments

Wolf Biermann

Translated by Martin Chalmers

‘What should the writer do in the dark times of tyranny?’

Wolf Biermann

Wolf Biermann was born in Hamburg in 1936 and at the age of seventeen declared his allegiance to the Communist Party and moved to East Germany. In 1976 he was expelled from the Party and the East Germany. He now works as a singer-songwriter.

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Translated by Martin Chalmers

Martin Chalmers was a translator of 20th century and contemporary German writing. Over his career he translated many eminent authors, including Herta Müller, Hubert Fichte, and Robert Walser. He died in 2014.

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