Wolfgang Ziegler
Wolfgang Ziegler was born on 8 October 1943 in Rostock, Germany, and emerged as
a German pop‑rock singer and composer. After completing his Abitur in the GDR
and a vocational apprenticeship as a motor mechanic, he entered the music scene
in the early 1960s, studying piano as a student and joining the Beat‑Quartett
that evolved into the popular Baltics of northern East Germany. In 1966 he
composed film music for the DEFA feature Die Reise nach Sundevit. Between 1970
and 1973 Ziegler pursued vocal studies at the Studio for Entertainment Arts in
East Berlin and composition at the Ho...
