Jürgen Hart was born during the Second World War at Treuen, a small industrial town in the hills south of Leipzig, which during the previous century had become a centre for weaving. While he was small the war ended and the region was liberated from National Socialism in April 1945 by US] troops. Three months left, respecting an agreement concluded the previous year between Comrade Marshal Stalin and President Roosevelt, the Americans left and the Soviets arrived. Hart grew up and then made his life in a region administered as the Soviet occupation zone till October 1949, and thereafter as the Soviet sponsored German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Hart's first cabaret performances took place while he was still at school, along the valley from Treuen in Auerbach. He was also involved as a stage performer from 1961 till 1963 while stationed at Prenzlau, performing his military service in the National People's Army. Between 1963 and 1967 he studied at the prestigious the Karl Marx University (as it had been renamed in 1953) in Leipzig, emerging with a secondary school teaching qualification in German and Music.