Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. With a weekly circulation of 840,000 copies, it is the largest such publication in Europe.
Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck was a German politician and Communist. In 1949, he became the first President of the German Democratic Republic, an office abolished upon his death. His successor as head of state was Walter Ulbricht, who served as chairman of the Council of State.
Christa Wolf was a German literary critic, novelist, and essayist. She was one of the best-known writers to emerge from the former East Germany.
Steglitz-Zehlendorf is the sixth borough of Berlin, formed in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform by merging the former boroughs of Steglitz and Zehlendorf.
Benno Ohnesorg was a German university student killed by a policeman during a demonstration in West Berlin. His death spurred the growth of the left-wing German student movement.
Beate Auguste Klarsfeld is a Franco-German journalist who, along with her French husband, Serge, became famous for their investigation and documentation of numerous Nazi war criminals, including Kurt Lischka, Alois Brunner, Klaus Barbie, Ernst Ehlers, Kurt Asche and others. In March 2012, she was a candidate for The Left in the election of the German Federal President 2012 against Joachim Gauck, which she lost by 126 to 991 votes.
Margot Honecker was an East German politician. From 1963 until 1989, she was Minister of National Education of the GDR. She was married to Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the German Democratic Republic's ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany from 1971 to 1989 and concurrently from 1976 to 1989 the country's head of state.
Helke Sander is a German feminist film director, author, actress, activist, and educator. She is known primarily for her documentary work and contributions to the women's movement in the seventies and eighties. Helke Sander's work is characterized by her emphasis of the experimental over the narrative arc. Sanders is considered to have started the "new" feminist movement in Germany with her passioned speech at the Socialist German Students Conference. A lot of Sanders' work is about portraying female perspectives and showing the every day struggles that women go through to survive. In her essay "Feminists and Film (1977)," Helke Sanders states the motivation for her work: "To put it in other terms: women's most authentic act today--in all areas including the arts--consists not in standardizing and harmonizing the means, but rather in destroying them. Where women are true, they break things." Sander's work is concerned with the breakage of conventional ideas and forms. " Sander's work is concerned with the breakage of conventional ideas and forms.
Sigrid Schultz was a notable American reporter and war correspondent in an era when women were a rarity in both print and radio journalism.
Isa Genzken is a German contemporary artist who lives and works in Berlin. Her primary media are sculpture and installation, using a wide variety of materials, including concrete, plaster, wood and textile. She also works with photography, video, film and collage.
Gisela May was a German actress and singer.
Ingeborg Drewitz was a German writer and academic.
La Jana was an Austro-German dancer and actress.
Cristina Perincioli is a Swiss film director, writer, multimedia producer and webauthor. She has lived in Berlin, Germany since 1968.
The Columbushaus was a nine-storey modernist office and shopping building in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, designed by Erich Mendelsohn and completed in 1932. It was an icon of progressive architecture which passed relatively unscathed through World War II but was gutted by fire in the June 1953 uprising in East Germany. The ruin was subsequently razed in 1957 because it stood in the border strip; the site was occupied by activists shortly before the fall of the Berlin wall.
Ursula Karusseit was a German actress.
Vera Oelschlegel has worked as a German singer, actress, artistic director, drama director and professor of drama at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. She was a celebrity in the German Democratic Republic before 1989. After that, from 1990 till 2013, she headed up the Theater des Ostens touring theatre company.
The Protestant Matthew Church in Steglitz, Berlin, was built from 1876 to 1880 to replace the undersized and dilapidated Steglitzer village church. In 1880 three inaugurated naves was designed by the architect Emil Gette. The church, parish hall, rectory and cemetery are now listed.
Sigrid Löffler is an Austrian cultural commentator, arts correspondent and literary critic.
