Stephan Krawczyk

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Full Name	Stephan Krawczyk
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Dec 31, 1955(1955-12-31)
Age	69
Birthplace	Weiden in der Oberpfalz
Country	Germany
Birth City	Bavaria
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Stephan Krawczyk Biography

Stephan Krawczyk is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on December 31, 1955 in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany. Stephan Krawczyk (born 31 December 1955) is a German music producer and writer. Before 1989 , he was a well-known East German dissident.

Over the course of the next 12 months Krawczyk and Klier collaborated in a series of dramatic works and prose readings that criticized socialism and the “socialist” society. They received positive response from churches and community halls. Authorities responded by pressing church officials to stop their appearances. However, as it turned out, there were a growing number of communities and churches which continue to offer them locations for their events. Klier as well as Krawczyk (who got married in the year 1986) were also slapped with fines and ordinances from the government, and injunctions.

The rest was left to Krawczyki’s lawyer, a man called Wolfgang Schnur who enjoyed the full confidence of fellow dissidents in the local evangelical church community. (In March 1990 it would be discovered that Schnur had been working secretly for the Stasi since 1965, identified in their files variously as “IM-Torsten” or “Dr. Ralf Schirmer”.) Through his lawyer Krawczyk was told to expect a twelve-year prison sentence. Alternatively, he could agree to deportation to the west. Although held in isolation, Krawczyk and Klier were able to communicate by passing messages through their lawyer, Wolfgang Schnur, whom they had both known for a long time and in whom they had complete trust. Having both agreed to deportation, on 2 February 1988 Stephen Krawczyk and Freya Klier were unceremoniously delivered across the border to West Berlin. Recovering from his experiences of persecution took a long time. After the changes, which led to surviving Stasi archives becoming accessible to the public, Krawczyk discovered that more than 80 former friends and associates had spied on him for the Stasi.

On 17 January 1988 Krawczyk was arrested while making his way to the officially backed Liebknecht-Luxemburg Demonstration, the mass parade was held each year in January to honour Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two pioneers of German Communism who had been assassinated during months of revolution that followed the First World War. Klier and Krawczyk intended to join in so as to display banners of their own devising. The idea was to draw attention to their own work bans and to highlight more generally their criticisms of the East German social structure. However, at the last minute they learned that other dissident demonstrators had planned to use the event to highlight government refusal to permit them to emigrate to the west, an issue that had never gone away. It was anticipated that western television teams would attempt to report the demonstration, and in order to avoid the risk of “mixed messaging” Klier and Krawczyk decided to leave their own alternative banners at home. Weeks in advance, and well informed as ever, the Ministry for State Security had made their own plans to deal with dissident disruption of the 17 January 1988 celebration. In a series of house arrests immediately before the event approximately 120 civil rights activists were arrested and held for (and in some cases beyond) the duration of the event. (Other sources give the number arrested as 160.) Along with Krawczyk, those arrested directly ahead of the event included Vera Wollenberger and Herbert Mißlitz. Some dissidents nevertheless did participate in the demonstration, and despite the best endeavours of Ministry for State Security officials, several “unauthorized” banners appears on international television reports. The one that resonated most widely used a quote from Rosa Luxemburg herself: “Freedom is always the freedom to think differently” (“Die Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden”).

Liedehrlich was formed as a folk group in the year 1978. In the year 1982, it was reformed into a duo after Stephan Krawczyk withdrew from it. Before or during 1984, the band moved to Berlin and became a an active participant in the Berlin arts scene in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district. A lot of the people they met were part of the underground, but were becoming more resolute and often openly speaking East German opposition movement. He became increasingly interested in the abuses committed by authorities in government and environmental degradation, as well as individual rights, and the absence of options. In February 1984, he met the stage director Freya Klier. Over the next few months , the two began to become lifelong friends. In April 1985, he resigned his membership in the party, and the party responded by exiling him. He was also issued an exclusion from performing. If the pair wanted to perform on public stages, they could only do it in an church. In contrast to being silenced due to the reputation established by Liedehrlich He became an extremely prominent opposition people throughout East Germany. Authorities responded with labelling the man as an “enemy of the nation” (“Staatsfeind”) or by referring to him as “the new Wolf Biermann”.

Stephan Krawczyk Net Worth

Stephan Krawczyk is one of the richest Author from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stephan Krawczyk 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Stephan Krawczyk was born in Weida the small industrial town that lies in the hills in the region between Erfurt as well as Karl-Marx Stadt (as Chmenitz was called at the at the time). His father, a miner worked by the mining companies that mined uranium in the east. He died when the age of a young child. His mother was employed by post offices. Krawczyk completed his final school examinations (“Abitur”) in 1974, which normally opens the door to an education at the university level. However, prior to that in 1974-76, he was a member of the military national/military. He later worked as a concierge, and also for an administrator assistant for an arts-related institution.

In 1976, as with many others Krawczyk joined the ranks of the government of the country’s Socialist Unity Party (“Sozialistische Einheitspartei Germanys” or SED). The SED played a significant role in his life for the following 10 years. In 1978, he enrolled in the distance-learning course offered by the “Franz Liszt” music academy in Weimar and covered the concert guitar. Following which he began his career as a singer-songwriter freelance. In the years between 1978 and 1983, he gained a reputable reputation in East Germany as a member of the Gera-based folk group Liedehrlich. In 1981, the Minister of Culture and the Arts awarded him the first prize in the National Chanson Contest (“Chansontage der DDR”). It was in 1981 that the Amiga record label released an album by Liedehrlich album in which he was the star and, was, under the circumstances of the German Democratic Republic was tantamount to being recognized as an “national artist”.

Krawczyk found himself subjected to a sustained programme of Stasi surveillance and harassment. Early in November 1987 Krawczyk and Klier jointly sent a letter – which quickly became an “open letter” – to the party’s top ideologist, Kurt Hager. Copies of this letter were widely distributed through the usual informal channels across East Germany and it was also published in the West German media. It was read out at a church concert on 9 November 1987. The letter criticised social conditions in East Germany and called for extensive reforms. It demanded respect for human rights, the reversal of the performance ban that had been served on the two of them, and freedom from state control for the arts and culture sector. Freya Klier believes that the authorities made several attempts on their lives. Krawczyk was deprived of his driving permit for a trifling offence and their car, driven by Klier, was tampered with. On one occasion the brake connections were cut. On another occasion they presumably suffered a nerve gas attack by the car door as a result of which Klier, at the wheel, suffered delusions and narrowly avoided crashing into a tree.

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Top Facts about Stephan Krawczyk

1. Stephan Krawczyk is a German writer and songwriter born in 1955.
2. He was a prominent figure in the East German opposition movement.
3. Krawczyk was imprisoned for his political activism in 1988.
4. He has published numerous books of poetry, essays, and memoirs.
5. Krawczyk’s music often addresses social and political issues.
6. He has collaborated with other notable musicians such as Wolf Biermann.
7. In 1990, he received the Carl von Ossietzky Medal for his human rights work.
8. Krawczyk continues to write and perform music today.
9. His works have been translated into several languages including English.
10. Krawczyk remains an important voice in contemporary German literature and music scene.