Wolf Biermann and Robert Havemann, the most important GDR dissidents, had been friends since 1963/64. Both were humanistic Marxists and resolute critics of the repressive SED regime. This picture from 1972 shows the two in Biermann’s apartment, where Havemann gave an interview to the Stockholm newspaper Expressen. Later, after Havemann protested Biermann’s expatriation in November 1976, he spent more than two years under house-arrest. Shortly before Havemann’s death in 1982, Biermann was given permission by the SED regime to visit his gravely ill friend.