Udo Lindenberg

born 1946

The German composer/lyricist Udo Lindenberg was the first ever West-German musician to perform in the East-German state (25th Oct 1983). This was made possible with the support of Harry Belafonte. Udo Lindenberg had been forbiden to perform by the President of the GDR because his highly critical lyrics to the regime.

Udo Lindenberg is as well a painter, an e frequestly uses his drawings in the covers of his CDs. On the right corner on top we show a rare copy of Linderberg contribution to our Ernst Reuter Platz Berlin project.

Left:, a self portrait to be found at his 2005 CD-Single supporting and critisising the election of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The play with word "Mekel/merke" ("Angie, that I will remember"). Taken from the Ganser & Hanke Musikmarketing GmbH (no. 770521-2, LC07622), Produced by Udo Lindeberg and Sandi Strmljan).

Biographical Facts:
1946 born 17. May in Gronau / Westfalen.
1958 starts to learn drums.

Exhibitions:
1998 Leipzig (Galerie am Sachsenplatz)
1999 Weimar (Schloßmuseum der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar)
2005 Bonn (Palais Schaumburg). Official Hotel of the German Government.
2005 Berlin (Kanzleramt). Office of the German Chamcellor.