German singer-songwriter, composer, and actor Herbert Grönemeyer was born
Herbert Arthur Wiglev Clamor Grönemeyer on 12 April 1956 in Göttingen in Lower
Saxony (Germany) and is the most successful contemporary musician in Germany,
with more than 18 million records sold domestically; his breakthrough fifth
album 4630 Bochum (1984) and his 11th album Mensch (2002) are the third and
first best-selling records in the country. He got his start in Wolfgang
Petersen's celebrated 1981 war film Das Boot but had already set his sights on
music, releasing his debut album Grönemeyer in 1979,...