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Heinrich George | Helmut Kind | Karl Heinrich | Ewald Ernst | Kurt Müller | Alfred Weiland | Arno Wend | Helmut Brandt | Georg Dertinger | Max Fechner | Karl Wilhelm Fricke | Wolfgang Harich | Walter Janka | Walter Linse | Paul Merker | Sigrid Paul | Rudolf Bahro | Heinz Brandt | Jürgen Fuchs | Gerulf Pannach | Michael Sallmann | Hans-Joachim Helwig-Wilson | Bärbel Bohley | Freya Klier | Stephan Krawczyk | Vera Lengsfeld | Ulrike Poppe
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 Michael "Salli" Sallmann was one of the more prominent poets and songwriters of the critical East German art scene. Born in 1953 in Chemnitz, Sallmann learned the trade of a “Baumaschinist” and studied at the School of Engineering Sciences in Leipzig. In 1975, a few weeks before his graduation, Sallmann was exmatriculated because of his relationship to the singer and songwriter Wolf Biermann and his "anti-socialist activities in the cultural field". Before he was exmatriculated, Culture Department of Leipzig had withdrawn his permit as a lyricist and vocalist of the Leipzig "Songgruppe." During his military service in the National People's Army and after Biermann's expatriation in November 1976, Sallmann illegally played songs and poems for soldiers and officers in his barracks. In 1977 Sallmann was arrested for "subversive propaganda" by the Ministry for State Security (Stasi). Given the choice between a long stay at Belin-Hohenschönhausen or to leave the GDR, he was eventually deported from the remand prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen to West Berlin, where he has lived ever since. In West Berlin, he was engaged in journalistic, musical and political work. Since 1997, Sallmann has been the editor at RBB-Kulturradio. |
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