Poet with many facets: Stephan Hermlin died 25 years ago

In his multifaceted ambivalence, the writer Stephan Hermlin represented the essence of the former GDR like no other: on the one hand, the son of an entrepreneur, born in Chemnitz in 1915 as Rudolf Leder, defended the building of the Wall as a convinced communist in 1961 in front of West colleagues like Günter Grass, on the other hand he supported it and he defended rebellious poets like Wolf Biermann, Sarah…