Florian Havemann (born 12 January 1952 in

East Berlin East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as ...

) is the son of

East German East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

dissident Robert Havemann.

Biography

He is a German writer, painter and composer. He is also a judge at the State Constitutional Court of Brandenburg. He fled to

West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...

during the

Cold War The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...

and was the subject of the song " Enfant perdu" ("Lost child") by

Wolf Biermann Karl Wolf Biermann (; born 15 November 1936) 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. Early life Biermann was b ...

. In the song, Biermann mocked Havemann for fleeing East Germany and thus deserting socialism.

Sources

Website von Florian Havemann
(not updated since 2002)

Zeitschrift für unfertige Gedanken

Schreiattacken gegen Papas Erbe
{{DEFAULTSORT:Havemann, Florian 1952 births Living people Musicians from Berlin Artists from East Berlin 21st-century German judges 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters 21st-century German painters 21st-century German male artists German composers East German defectors East German emigrants to West Germany German male writers