Ruth Brandin

b. 27/02/1940 in Altenweddingen,
d. 11/07/2024 at Berlin,

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 . (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 . 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 .