Florian Havemann
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Florian Havemann is the son of East German dissident
Robert Havemann
. 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
during the Cold War
and was the subject of the song Enfant perdu ("lost child") by Wolf Biermann
. In the song, Biermann mocked Havemann for fleeing East Germany and thus deserting socialism.
Dissident
A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively challenges an established doctrine, policy, or institution. When dissidents unite for a common cause they often effect a dissident movement....
Robert Havemann
Robert Havemann
Robert Havemann was a chemist, and an East German dissident.He studied chemistry in Berlin and Munich from 1929 to 1933, and then later received a doctorate in physical chemistry from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute....
. 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
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
during the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
and was the subject of the song Enfant perdu ("lost child") by Wolf Biermann
Wolf Biermann
Karl Wolf Biermann is a German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident.-Early life:Biermann's father, who worked on the Hamburg docks, was a German Jew and a member of the German Resistance....
. In the song, Biermann mocked Havemann for fleeing East Germany and thus deserting socialism.