Return To The West
Now living in the West, Biermann continued his musical career, criticizing East Germany's Stalinist policies. He was able to perform publicly again in East Germany in late 1989 during the Wende or peaceful revolution that eventually toppled the Communist government. In 1998 he received a German national prize. He supported the 1999 NATO Kosovo War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
He lives in Hamburg and in France. He is the father of ten children, three of them with his wife Pamela Biermann.
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