Bernd Begemann

Bernd Begemann (born 1 November 1962 in Braunschweig as Kay Stephan Rönnau) is a contemporary German alt/pop singer-songwriter, actor, producer and filmmusic-composer linked to the Hamburger Schule.

Begemann's biological parents were Aykut Ünyazıcı, a footballer from Turkey at Eintracht Braunschweig and a woman from Germany.

He was very successful as sportsman as a teen and young adult and won a lot of competitions, because he was extremely talented as very fast runner[1] but in the end of the 1970s, in his hometown of Bad Salzuflen (Germany) he became a punk and he founded in 1979 a punk rock band with the "real rebel name", "Vatikan".

When he was 20, Begemann moved to Hamburg to later create the band known as Die Antwort[2] (engl.

Produced for 150,000 german marks (by RCA), the (untitled) CD flopped because, according to some people, the band's "image was too hard for their soft sound".

Bernd Begemann (far right) and band Die Befreiung , Oct. 2007
Bernd Begemann (second from left) and band Die Befreiung , 2005