Die Zeit is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in Germany. The newspaper is generally considered to be among the German newspapers of record and is known for its long and extensive articles.
Heinz G. Konsalik, pseudonym of Heinz Günther was a German novelist. Konsalik was his mother's maiden name.
Johann Kuhnau was a German polymath, known primarily as a composer today. He was also active as a novelist, translator, lawyer, and music theorist, and was able to combine these activities with his duties in his official post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, which he occupied for 21 years. Much of his music, including operas, masses, and other large-scale vocal works, is lost. His reputation today rests on his Biblical Sonatas, a set of programmatic keyboard sonatas published in 1700, in which each sonata depicted in detail a particular story from the Bible. After his death, Kuhnau was succeeded as Thomaskantor by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Katja Kipping is a German politician of The Left and member of the Bundestag representing Saxony. She was co-chairperson of The Left from 2012 to 2021 alongside Bernd Riexinger.
Reimar Oltmanns is a well-known journalist and author in Germany.
Natalia Wörner is a German actress.
Jenny Erpenbeck is a German writer and opera director, recipient of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Iris von Roten-Meyer was a Swiss journalist, writer, feminist, jurist and a lawyer.
Greta Kuckhoff was a resistance fighter who was a member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr during the Nazi era. She was married to Adam Kuckhoff, who was executed by the Third Reich. After the war, she lived in the German Democratic Republic, where she was president of Deutsche Notenbank from 1950 to 1958.
Wiebke von Carolsfeld is a German Canadian film director, writer and editor. Her debut feature film as a director, Marion Bridge, won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival.
Wiebke is a feminine German given name. Notable people with the name include:
Carolin Emcke is a German author and journalist who worked for Der Spiegel from 1998 to 2006, often writing from areas of conflicts. From 2007 to 2014, she worked as an international reporter for DIE ZEIT. Her book Echoes of Violence – Letters from a War Reporter was published in 2007 at Princeton University Press. In 2008, she published Stumme Gewalt, in 2013 How We Desire, in 2016 Against Hate, and in 2019 Yes means yes and.... Carolin Emcke was honoured with several awards such as the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels in 2016, and a Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in 2017.
Wiebke Siem is a German mixed media artist of German and Polish heritage, winner of the prestigious Goslarer Kaiserring in 2014 as "one of the most innovative and original artists who has never compromised in their art and whose sculptures have a tremendous aura and presence because they mix the familiar and the unfamiliar, the known and the unknown".
Elfriede Paul was a German physician. Paul, a small and energetic woman, was a communist member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr. Paul was one of the few members of the Red Orchestra Group to survive imprisonment at the hands of the Gestapo. After the war, she was responsible for drafting health policies for the German Democratic Republic.
Wiebke Esdar is a German psychologist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). She has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2017 election, when she won the constituency of Bielefeld – Gütersloh II with 33.2% of the votes.
Ute Vogt is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from 1994 until 2005 and since 2009.
Ursula Fuchs was a German writer of children's books. In 1980 she received the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Emma oder die unruhige Zeit. In 1983, Wiebke und Paul was nominated for the Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreises. In 1984 she received the Silberne Feder from the German Medical Association. Some books were translated, such as Emma oder die unruhige Zeit.
Wiebke Lehmkuhl is a German contralto in opera and concert who has appeared at international leading opera houses and festivals, including as Wagner's Magdalene at the Bayreuth Festival, as Erda in Paris, and as Annina at the Salzburg Festival. She was the alto soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the 2017 opening of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.
Christian Flor was a German composer and organist. Working at churches in Rendsburg and Lüneburg, he was widely known for vocal and organ compositions. He composed one of the earliest Passion oratorios, in 1667.
Since 1975, the Goslarer Kaiserring award has been given, by the city of Goslar, to a distinguished international artist of modern and contemporary art. The Kaiserring is an ideal award for internationally outstanding contemporary artists whose work has given the art of our time significant impetus. The Kaiserring is an aquamarine set in gold, in which the seal of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1050–1106) is engraved. It is made every year by the Worpswede goldsmith Hadfried Rinke for each award winner.
