Klaus Hoffmann (born 26 March 1951, Berlin) is a German singer, songwriter and actor.

[1] Klaus Hoffmann started his career as a singer-songwriter during the late 1960s in the alternative Berlin club culture.

After travelling to Afghanistan in 1969,[2] he began training as an actor at the Berlin Max-Reinhardt-Schule für Schauspiel.

Rooted in his childhood in working class, post war Berlin and his teenage years during the 1968 student uprisings, Hoffmann’s lyrics often reflect on the inner conflict between the warmth and security of the familiar and the freedom and possibilities of the unknown.

[5] Hoffmann is considered the leading German interpreter of the Belgian chansonnier Jacques Brel.