Kurt Demmler

Kurt Demmler reigned among the premier German pop songwriters of the Cold War era, but his creative legacy is largely overshadowed by the harrowing accusations of child sexual abuse that ultimately led to his suicide. Born Kurt Abramowitz in Posen, Poland on September 12, 1943, he grew up in the East German state of Brandenburg. The son of doctors, he too pursued a career in medicine, but poetry was his great passion, and in time he began setting his verse to music. Much of Demmler's lyrical output reflected the political turmoil of life in the German Democratic Republic side ...