Gabriele Eckart (born March 23, 1954 in Falkenstein/Vogtland), is a German author.
Gabriele Eckart studied Philosophy from 1972 to 1976 at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She concluded her studies with the completion of her Staatsexamen. In 1979 she took part in a writing course at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. After publishing two collections of her own poetry and a collection of travel memoirs, her next publication was supposed to have been a collection of interviews with people in Havelland. Small excerpts appeared in 1983 and 1984 in literature magazines in the German Democratic Republic, but the publication of the entire text, which contained numerous passages critical of relations in the German Democratic Republic, was prevented by government censorship. The book So sehe ick die Sache was therefore published openly only in West Germany.
In 1987, Eckart used a visit to the Frankfurter Buchmesse to relocate to the Federal Republic of Germany; she remained, however, a citizen of the German Democratic Republic. In 1988 she emigrated to the United States, where she continued her studies. In 1993 she earned her Master of Arts at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and her PhD from the University of Minnesota. She has worked as a Professor of German and Spanish at the Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau.
German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents, and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies often include classes on German culture, German history, and German politics in addition to the language and literature component. Common German names for the field are Germanistik, Deutsche Philologie, and Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft und Literaturwissenschaft. In English the terms Germanistics or Germanics are sometimes used, but the subject is more often referred to as German studies, German language and literature, or German philology.
Emine Sevgi Özdamar is a writer, director, and actress of Turkish origin who resides in Germany and has resided there for many years. Özdamar's art is unique in that it is influenced by her life experiences, which straddle the countries of Germany and Turkey throughout times of turmoil in both. One of her most notable accomplishments is winning the 1991 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.
Bastian Sick is a German journalist and author.
Siglinde Kallnbach is an internationally active German artist. Her work includes performance art, installation art, multimedia art, photography, and art intervention.
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger FBA is a German historian. She studied German language and literature, history and history of art at the University of Cologne, graduating in 1980 and earning a doctorate in 1985. She habilitated at the University of Cologne in 1995. In 1997, Stollberg-Rilinger followed a call from the University of Münster, where she holds the chair of Early Modern History.
Christine Teusch was a German politician of the Zentrumspartei and the Christian Democratic Union, and Minister of Culture in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Gabriele von Lutzau, née Dillmann is a German heroine and sculptor. She is remembered as the "Angel of Mogadishu" for her role in a notorious hijacking, and is also noted for her abstract beechwood sculptures. She is by marriage a member of the Russian-German Lutzau family that was ennobled in Imperial Russia.
Linda Maria Koldau is a German musicologist and was Chair of Musicology and Cultural History at Aarhus University in Denmark. Since 2013 she has been director of the Coastal Academy in Northern Germany, focusing on efficiency, conciseness and perfection in business language and communication.
Gabriele Reuter was a German writer.
Gabriele Wohmann was a German novelist, and short story writer.
Alina Bronsky, is a Russian-born German writer. The rights of Bronsky’s novels were counted in more than 15 countries, they appear among others in the US and Italy in both print and audio format. Her debut novel Scherbenpark (2008), or Broken Glass Park (2010), has received wide critical acclaim.
Adriana Altaras is a German actress, theater director and writer, born in Zagreb.
Angelika Klüssendorf is a German writer. She was born in Ahrensburg and raised in Leipzig, both in the German Democratic Republic. In 1985, she fled to West Germany where she has lived ever since.
Volker Hage is a retired German journalist, author and literary critic, who has reinvented himself as a novelist.
Volker Weidermann is a German writer and literary critic. He currently works for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as the literary director and editor of the newspaper's Sunday edition. In 2015, he changed to Der Spiegel.
Carola Stern was the name under which Erika Assmus reinvented herself as a serious journalist and (subsequently) author and politically committed television presenter, after she was obliged to relocate at short notice from East Germany to West Germany in 1951.
Hermann Weber was a German historian and political scientist. A few days after he died a headline writer described him as "the man who knew everything about the German Democratic Republic".
Anetta Kahane is a German left-wing journalist, author and activist against antisemitism, racism and right-wing extremism. In 1998 she founded the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, which she leads since 2003. From 1974 to 1982 she had been an informant of the former East German Stasi. This past has been used to discredit her and her work since 2002.
Sabine Doering-Manteuffel.
Katrin Askan is a German author. She was born in East Germany, but in 1986, three years before the changes that finally adumbrated an end to the one-party dictatorship, she managed to escape to the west. A (slightly) fictionalised version of the long build-up to the event and of the escape itself, with a powerful resonance of authenticity, constitutes the core of her 2000 novel "Aus dem Schneider".
