Ruth Brandin

b. 27/02/1940 in Altenweddingen, Germany 1959 - member of the female vocal-quartet "Die Kolibris" 1961 - Her first solo single "Das Kann der Mann für's Leben sein" was rejected because, Reimer Mierke the composer of this track emigrated to West Germany. (By the way, this single was released 5 years later under the composer-alias Harald Jürgens) Ruth Brandin was one of the most popular female Vocalists of the 1960s in East Germany. During 1961 and 1971 she got 1 solo LP and 30 7"-single releases. Ruth Brandin's carrer as a "Schlager-Star" ended in the early 1970s because she doesn't fit into the political system of socialistic Schlager-Business in East Germany.