1. Barbara Thalheim was born on Leipzig 5 September 1947 and is a Berlin-based German singer and songwriter.
13 Facts About Barbara Thalheim
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Barbara Thalheim celebrated the fortieth anniversary of her first stage appearance in 2013.
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Barbara Thalheim had been a Communist who in 1933 had emigrated first to Africa and later to France.
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Barbara Thalheim was trained as a singer at the Central Studio for Entertainment Art.
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Barbara Thalheim's next professional partner was a classical String quartet, with which she continued to work till 1980.
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Barbara Thalheim made stage appearances with many of the international musical stars of the day, including Georges Moustaki, Konstantin Wecker, Herman van Veen, Hanns Dieter Husch, Marek Grechuta, Hana Hegerova, and Georg Danzer.
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Foreign travel was seen as a privilege conferred by state authorities in the countries ruled under Soviet direction at this time, and in 1980, following a change of policy by East Germany's ruling SED, Barbara Thalheim went public with criticism of a newly imposed travel ban on East German artists wishing to tour in western Europe.
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Barbara Thalheim was immediately deprived of her party membership and served with her own personal travel and recording ban.
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In 1990 Barbara Thalheim undertook a tour with the rockband, Pankow.
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Barbara Thalheim then set up cultural management business organising, among other things, the summer festival "Schaustelle Berlin" for the city council.
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Early in 2012 Barbara Thalheim received a part share in a scholarship awarded at the Kunstlerhof Schreyahn by the Lower-Saxony Ministry of Culture.
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On 20 September 1972 Barbara Thalheim signed a handwritten "Collaboration undertaking" with the Ministry for State Security.
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Barbara Thalheim is listed as an informer in Stasi records between 1972 and 1979 under the code name "IM Elvira".