Bernd Begemann

Bernd Begemann is a contemporary German alt/pop singer-songwriter linked to the Hamburger Schule. Begemann's biological parents were probably a man from Turkey and a woman from Germany, although Begemann admits he does not know. In 1963 he was adopted by Margot and Bernhard Begemann at the fragile age of six months. By the end of the 1970s, in his hometown of Bad Salzuflen (in East Westphalia, Germany) he had become a 15 year old punk. His first band, founded in 1979, was a punk rock band with the "real rebel name", "Vatikan". The members of this band were Bernd Begemann, Frank Jacobs (later in the band "Out of Order" and "Time Twisters") and Martin Stammeier (later, the drummer of many heavy metal bands). From the middle to the end of...