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4 unusual facts about Wolfgang Thierse


Lyrikline.org

lyrikline.org is a project supported by the German Commission for UNESCO and of the former president of the German Parliament, Wolfgang Thierse.

Wolfgang Thierse

In 2003 a CD was published with Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" read by Wolfgang Thierse.

"Peter and the Wolf" is another fairy tale read on CD by Wolfgang Thierse.

But when he joined the protests against the expulsion of singer-songwriter and dissident Wolf Biermann from the GDR he lost his job.


Europa Philharmonie

In 2004, the orchestra was the first classical symphony orchestra in the world to perform in Sana'a, the capital city of Yemen, at the opening concert for "Sana'a - Cultural Capital of the Arab World", which was attended by its patron, the former President of the Bundestag, Wolfgang Thierse, and the Yemen Minister for Culture and Tourism, Khalid Al-Rewaishan.


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