Overview

• Udo Lindenberg wrote on Facebook that his pacifist convictions have led to sleepless nights over the handling of current wars and crises.
• He stressed that his lifelong pacifism does not preclude the need for deterrence when core democratic values are threatened.
• The 79-year-old rock icon condemned the allocation of “billions upon billions” to military armaments as a global humanistic bankruptcy by autocratic leaders.
• Lindenberg urged redirecting military budgets toward averting the looming climate catastrophe and ending world hunger.
• His decades-long artistic advocacy for peace is exemplified by his 1981 song “Wozu sind Kriege da?”, which has been covered multiple times.