Ernst Busch

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Ernst Busch (22 January 1900 - 8 June 1980) was a singer and actor. He was born in Kiel, Germany, and died in Berlin. Busch first rose to prominence as an interpreter of political songs, particularly those of Kurt Tucholsky, in the Berlin cabaret scene of the 1920s. He starred in the original 1928 production of Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera, as well as the subsequent 1931 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. A lifelong Communist, Busch fled Nazi Germany in 1933 with the Gestapo on his heels, eventually settling in the Soviet Union. In 1937 he joined the International Brigades to fight against fascism in Spain. After Spain fell to the Franco, he emigrated to Belgium, where he was interned during the Nazi occupation and later imprisoned in Gurs, France and Berlin. Freed by the Red Army in 1945, he settled in East Berlin, where he worked with Bertold Brecht and Erwin Piscator at the "Berliner Ensemble". A beloved figure in the German Democratic Republic, he is best remembered for his performance in the title role of Brecht's Galileo, and for his stirring recordings of worker's songs, including many written by Hanns Eisler. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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albums

Ernst Busch: 1960 Live in Berin

Originalaufnahmen 1946-1953, Volume I: Wie könnten wir je vergessen

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Dem Morgenrot entgegen

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Wie können wir je vergessen

Ernst Busch singt Brecht

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Canciones de las Brigadas Internacionales

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Schwule Lieder - Perlen Der Kleinkunst

Lieder der Arbeiterklasse - Lieder aus dem spanischen Bürgerkrieg

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Rote Lieder (Die Besten politischen Lieder aus der DDR)

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Roter Oktober

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02 - Roter Oktober

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