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Nina Grunenberg
Nina Grunenberg (7 October 1936 – 28 December 2017) was a German author and prize-winning journalist. Beginning her career in West Germany during the 1950s and '60s, when political journalism was largely a male prerogative, she wrote reports on social life in her country. Among others, she covered German political, social and economic affairs, also focusing frequently on science and education and writing about German elites in industry, trade unions and politics. Biography Early life Caroline “Nina” Grunenberg was born in Dresden, where she attended school between 1942 and 1950. She was eight and a half when World War II ended. From 1950 to 1954 she attended the “Ursulinen-Gymnasium” (a Catholic secondary school) in Cologne. After highschool she began a three year apprenticeship in the book trade in 1954. Journalist From 1958 to 1965 Grunenberg worked as a freelance journalist. Cologne was the West German television hub during this period, and one of the organi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area (after Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne), and the third most populous city in the area of former East Germany, after Berlin and Leipzig. Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Meissen, Coswig, Radeberg and Heidenau and has around 790,000 inhabitants. The Dresden metropolitan area has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants. Dresden is the second largest city on the River Elbe after Hamburg. Most of the city's population lives in the Elbe Valley, but a large, albeit very sparsely populated area of the city east of the Elbe lies in the West Lusatian Hill Country and Uplands (the westernmost part of the Sudetes) and thus in Lusatia. Many boroughs west of the Elbe lie in the foreland of the Ore Mounta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
