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Gerd Semmer was born on 21 December, 1919, is a poet. Discover Gerd Semmer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 104 years old?

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1968

As a pioneer of the German peace marches ("Ostermarsch"), he contributed essential ideas and songs. His last, the evening song at Easter, is "in use" to this day. In memory of "the father of the new German chanson", the literary magazine Kürbiskern dedicated the special edition Songbook to him in 1968 with many of his songs, including all the Easter March songs - some of them set to music by Dieter Süverkrüp - and with poems, protest songs and chansons by Franz Josef Degenhardt, Erich Fried, Fasia Jansen, Rolf Schwendter, Hannes Stütz, Dieter Süverkrüp and others.

1953

In 1953, after starting a family, he moved to Düsseldorf and worked as an editor for the satirical newspaper Der Deutsche Michel. Until 1957 his poems, short prose and book reviews were published there under the pseudonym Moritz Messer. Gerd Semmer was the features editor of the Deutsche Volkszeitung from 1954 to 1956, and from 1957 cultural editor of the weekly newspaper Voice of Peace, which was banned in 1959 for political reasons. In 1957 Semmer founded together with André Müller sen., Erwin Piscator , Günther Weisenborn u. a. the Bertolt Brecht working group . 1961 founded Semmer together with Dieter Süverkrüp , Arno Klönne and Frank Werkmeister the pläne records company in Dusseldorf.

1943

From 1943 to 1946 he studied theater studies, art history and German studies in Vienna, after the end of the war, from 1946 on, Romance studies and sociology in Marburg. In 1950 he began a doctoral thesis on Bertolt Brecht, the completion of which was prevented by the unexpected death of the doctoral supervisor Professor Milch and the outbreak of the Cold War. Own literary works initially remained unprinted. In 1951 he got a job as an interpreter in the local Moroccan barracks in Marburg. From 1952 to 1956 he was assistant director and scientific advisor to Erwin Piscator in Marburg, Gießen and Berlin. He worked u. a. participated in the production of Büchner's Dantons Tod , which included his research on the songs of the French Revolution, which he also published in a German adaptation.

1919

Gerhard Friedrich "Gerd" Semmer (born December 21, 1919 in Paderborn ; † November 12, 1967 in Ratingen ) was a German poet, columnist, songwriter and translator. He is considered the "father of the German protest song".

Born in Paderborn in 1919 as the son of a master tailor, Semmer had to interrupt high school to do a tailoring apprenticeship with his father. In 1943 he passed the master craftsman examination in Weimar and the Abitur in Paderborn. Already in his youth he developed an interest in puppetry. The puppet mask became a vehicle for him to express political criticism at an early stage. This passion accompanied him all his life.