Profiles - East Germans Shaping Germany

In celebrating the 20th anniversary of the peaceful destruction of the Wall, we will profile over the course of 2009 important East Germans who have shaped beyond all physical borders the cultural, intellectual and political life of postwar Germany and Europe.

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Manfred Krug - Top TV Actor and Soulful Singer

Nov 18, 2009 | Germany.info
Manfred Krug sings during a concert in East Germany. (c) dpa - Report

Manfred Krug is known to millions of German TV viewers for his popular roles as a Berlin attorney on the hit show Liebling Kreuzberg (Dear Kreuzberg) and as a Hamburg-based police detective on Tatort (Scene of the Crime). Before 1977, he was also a movie star in East Germany.

Armin Mueller-Stahl - Building Bridges Through Art

Oct 29, 2009 | Germany.info
Armin Mueller-Stahl in 1976 in Berlin. He emigrated to West Berlin in 1980. (c) dpa - Report

Armin Mueller-Stahl is known to international audiences through his performances in films such as David Cronenberg's 'Eastern Promises' - but he had a whole other prior career onstage and in films produced in the former East Germany, where he was an extremely popular actor. 

Jurek Becker – Acclaimed Author of Novels and Screenplays

Oct 9, 2009 | Germany.info
Jurek Becker © picture-alliance / akg-images / Niklaus Stauss

The dissident Jurek Becker was a widely acclaimed author and screenplay writer. His debut novel Jacob the Liar, was translated into more than 20 languages and served as the basis for the only East German film to be nominated for an Oscar.

“Katarina the Great” – Queen on Ice

Aug 20, 2009 | Germany.info
Katarina Witt at the 1988 Winter Games © picture-alliance / ASA

Before becoming East Germany’s first professional athlete, Katarina Witt captured more figure skating titles than anyone else in the history of the sport and her expressive skating style garnered her international fame.

Werner Tübke – a German "Painter Prince"

Jul 28, 2009 | Federal Foreign Office
self-portrait of painter Werner Tübke at the entrance of the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig

Painter Werner Tübke followed neither the international artistic trends of his time and nor the socialist realism predominant in East Germany, choosing traditional German and Italian masters as his role models.  He would have been 80 years old on July 30.

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Berlin Wall Retrospective

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Freedom Without Walls: 1989-2009

Freedom Without Walls © German Embassy Washington

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of a new era in history. It was the end of the cold war, the beginning of a fully united Europe and proof that peaceful change is possible, even in the moments when it seems most unlikely.