Hans Söllner

Bavarian liedermacher Hans Söllner is as notorious for his political rebelliousness as he is well known for his reggae-inflected folk music style. His popularity is arguably greater in Austria, where his albums regularly chart, than it is in his native Germany, where his public image is tarnished in the eyes of some due to his politics. Söllner's wide-ranging and sometimes heavy-handed political criticism, not to mention his public embrace of marijuana, made him the subject of increasingly costly fines, to such a degree that he views himself as the victim of staatlichen Repres...