Ernst Busch

Biography

Ernst Busch was a German singer and actor born on January 22, 1900, who rose to prominence in the Berlin Kabarett scene of the 1920s as an interpreter of political songs. He starred in the original production of Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera and appeared in films like Kuhle Wampe and Comradeship, singing Solidaritätslied. A lifelong communist, Busch fled Nazi Germany in 1933, eventually making his home in the Soviet Union.