List of personalities of the Kleinmachnow community
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ' N , 13 ° 13' E
The Brandenburg community of Kleinmachnow was the birthplace, place of work and death of numerous personalities. The rural character of a manor village at the beginning of the 20th century, but also the proximity to the capital Berlin and the film studios in Babelsberg , attracted many artists , actors and writers . Here is an overview of people who lived and worked in Kleinmachnow, regardless of their place of birth.
actor
- Susanne Bormann (* 1979 in Kleinmachnow), actress; grew up in Kleinmachnow
- Harald Effenberg (* 1957 in Pätz ), actor; has lived with his family in Kleinmachnow since 2001.
- Paul Henckels (* 1885 Hürth / Rhineland; † 1967 in Kettwig, today Essen-Kettwig ), played in more than 230 films from 1923 to 1961; moved into the Villa Am Weinberg 5 in Kleinmachnow in 1936 and later gave it up because of hostility towards his Jewish wife.
- Friedrich Kayssler (* 1874 in Neurode , † 1945 in Kleinmachnow), state actor and writer; was accidentally shot by Soviet soldiers in front of his house in Kleinmachnow in April 1945.
- Deborah Kaufmann (* 1970 in Kleinmachnow), actress
- Anne Kasprik (* 11 June 1963 in Berlin as Anne Kasprzik ), actress; lives in Kleinmachnow
- Hildegard Knef (born December 28, 1925 in Ulm † February 1, 2002 in Berlin ), actress, singer; lived in Kleinmachnow from 2001 to 2002
- Agnes Kraus (born February 16, 1911 in Zehlendorf ; † May 2, 1995 in Berlin-Lichtenberg ) "People's Actress" lived for many years in Kleinmachnow and was buried there in the forest cemetery
- Frank Lüdecke (* 1961 in Berlin), cabaret artist, author, director, artistic director of the cabaret "Distel". He has lived in Kleinmachnow with his family since 2000.
- Christoph M. Ohrt (* 1960 in Hamburg ), actor; lived in Kleinmachnow (from 2012 in Berlin)
Writer and publisher
- Martin Ahrends (* 1951 in Berlin-Zehlendorf), writer and editor ; has lived as a freelance writer in Kleinmachnow since 1994
- Gerhard Bengsch (* 1928 in Berlin; † 2004 in Kleinmachnow ), writer and screenwriter for several DEFA feature films as well as television films for German television ; lived in Kleinmachnow from 1956
- Lily Braun (* 1865 in Halberstadt , † 1916 in Berlin), writer, social democrat and women's rights activist; lived at Erlenweg 29 in Kleinmachnow since 1909 (grave in the garden of the house)
- Harald Effenberg (* 1957 in Pätz ), actor; lives in Kleinmachnow
- Paul Eipper (* 1891 in Stuttgart ; † 1964 in Feldafing ), writer and editor ; lived in Kleinmachnow
- Helga Göring , also Helga Bonnet (* 1922 in Meißen , † 2010 in Berlin ) actress; lived in Kleinmachnow
- Gisela Heller (* 1929 Breslau ), writer and editor , lived in Kleinmachnow
- Walter Janka (* 1914 in Chemnitz , † 1994 in Kleinmachnow), publisher; lived in Kleinmachnow since the 1960s
- Wolfgang Joho (* 1908 in Karlsruhe , † 1991 in Kleinmachnow), writer; lived in the Medonstr. 23 in Kleinmachnow
- Walter Kiel (* 1907 in Lipprechterode ; † 1986 in Burgas, Bulgaria), author of various specialist books on agriculture; lived in Kleinmachnow on Geschwister-Scholl-Allee.
- Stefan Kolditz (* 1956 in Kleinmachnow), writer , playwright and writer of scripts for film and television. The television production An die Grenz (2007), in which Kolditz processed his own experiences from military service with the border troops of the GDR , received great attention .
- Ilse Korn (* 1907 in Dresden ; † 1975 in Kleinmachnow), writer, married to Vilmos Korn.
- Vilmos Korn (* 1899 in Kikinda ; † 1970 in Kleinmachnow), writer and journalist.
- Friedo Lampe (* 1899 in Bremen ; † 1945 in Kleinmachnow), writer; since 1943 lived in Ilse Molzahn's house in Kleinmachnow in Heimdallstrasse. 62 (today Geschwister-Scholl-Allee )
- Marianne Lange-Weinert (* 1921 in Magdeburg ; † 2005 in Kleinmachnow), cultural functionary, editor, translator and author; lived in Kleinmachnow for many years
- Hanns Maaßen (born 1908 in Lübeck , † 1983 in Mahlow ), journalist and freelance writer ; lived in Kleinmachnow since 1971
- Hans-Albert Pederzani , pseudonym AG Petermann (* 1923 in Berlin) German writer and director, lived in Kleinmachnow
- Marianne Schmidt (born June 30, 1929 in Berlin; † 2017), literary scholar and writer; lived in Kleinmachnow since the 1950s
- Fred Wander (* 1917 in Vienna, † 2006 in Vienna), Austrian writer; lived in Kleinmachnow from 1958 until his return to Vienna in 1983, first Wolfswerder , then Ernst-Thälmann-Str. 22 ; is buried in Kleinmachnow
- Maxie Wander (* 1933 in Vienna; † 1977 in Kleinmachnow), Austrian writer; married to Fred Wander
- Christa Wolf (* 1929 in Landsberg an der Warthe as Christa Ihlenfeld ; † 2011 in Berlin), writer; lived in Kleinmachnow from 1962 to 1976
- Gerhard Wolf (* 1928 in Bad Frankenhausen ), writer and publisher; married to Christa Wolf
Musicians and composers
- Peter Christian Feigel (* 1966), German conductor, arranger and musical director
- Lotte Lenya (also Lotte Lenja ; * 1898 in Vienna as Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer ; † 1981 in New York City ), Austrian-American actress and singer; Lenya was an interpreter and propagandist of the works of Weill.
- Stefan Rauh (* 1963), German conductor, composer and music publisher ( Sonat-Verlag ), has lived in Kleinmachnow since 2013.
- Arnold Schönberg (* 1874 in Vienna, † 1951 in Los Angeles ), Austrian composer and music theorist of Jewish origin; 1911-13 was a guest in Ferdinand Lepcke's house of sculptors on Gradnauer Strasse; The Arnold-Schönberg-Ring in Kleinmachnow is named after him
- Kurt Weill (* 1900 in Dessau , † 1950 in New York), German and American composer, known for the Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht ; Bought a house in Kleinmachnow in 1931 and moved in with his wife Lotte Lenya in March 1932. After the seizure of power of the National Socialists both emigrated in 1933, first to Switzerland.
Directors
- Karl Gass (* 1917 in Mannheim ; † 2009 in Kleinmachnow), director for documentary films, reports and portraits as well as in administrative functions in the film sector and as a television presenter and author. With over 120 works, Gass was one of the most important documentary filmmakers in the GDR and is considered a pioneer and master of DEFA documentary film; He lived in Kleinmachnow and in 1961 founded his own DEFA division in Kleinmachnow.
- Richard Groschopp (* 1906 in Kölleda , † 1996 in Kleinmachnow), director and cameraman for DEFA; lived in Kleinmachnow since 1958.
- Hans Joachim Hildebrandt (born September 27, 1929 in Magdeburg ) lives and worked in Kleinmachnow; staged z. B. Police call 110
- Hans-Joachim Kasprzik director and screenwriter (born August 14, 1928 in Beuthen , † October 10, 1997 in Berlin ) often directed contemporary and historical films
- Lutz Köhlert (* 1927 in Falkensee ; † 2012), director and screenwriter, rector of the University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" (1969–1973), grave in the forest cemetery
- Wolfgang Luderer (born September 4, 1924 in Dresden , † March 2, 1995 in Berlin ), director and screenwriter. His directorial work on series such as Fernsehpitaval , Zur See and Forsthaus Falkenau are well known . Grave in the forest cemetery.
- Konrad Petzold (* 1930 in Radebeul ; † 1999 in Kleinmachnow), film director who directed numerous DEFA children's films and so-called " DEFA Indian films "; lived in Kleinmachnow.
Politician
- Cornelia Behm (* 1951 in Kleinmachnow), member of the German Bundestag and spokeswoman for the Bundestag faction Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen for agricultural policy as well as for forest policy, rural areas and regional economic policy; was agricultural-technical assistant and research assistant at the Institute for Plant Protection Research Kleinmachnow (1972–1990), parliamentary group leader of the citizens' group in Kleinmachnow (until 2001) and mayor candidate in Kleinmachnow (2001)
- Peter Bloch (born May 30, 1900 in Berlin; † July 20, 1984 in West Berlin ) lived in Kleinmachnow from 1938 to 1950, was a co-founder of the CDU's local branch in June 1945, its first chairman, deputy chairman of the Brandenburg state association of the CDU as well as member of the Landtag Brandenburg and its presidium.
- Hinrich Enderlein (* 1941 in Luckenwalde ), historian, politician of the FDP and from 1990 to 1994 Minister for Science, Research and Culture in Brandenburg ; lives in Kleinmachnow
- Georg Gradnauer (* 1866 in Magdeburg , † 1946 in Berlin ), social democratic politician, MdR; lived in Kleinmachnow in 1934 until he was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1944 .
- Adolf Grimme (* 1889 in Goslar , † 1963 in Degerndorf am Inn ), social democratic cultural politician; lived in Kleinmachnow from 1930 until his arrest in 1942 by the Gestapo because of a connection with the Red Orchestra . The Adolf Grimme Ring in Kleinmachnow and the important Adolf Grimme Prize for television programs are named after him.
- Ernst Lemmer (* 1898 in Remscheid , † 1970 in West Berlin ), politician of the DDP and CDU ; organized community administration in Kleinmachnow after the end of the war
- Wilhelm Ohnesorge (* 1872 in Graefenhainichen ; † 1962 in Munich ), Reichspostminister in the time of National Socialism ; made Hakeburg his private residence and set up a research institute there that dealt with issues of importance to the war effort.
- Max Reimann (* 1898 in Elbing ; † 1977 in Düsseldorf ), KPD chairman, lived in Kleinmachnow during his exile until 1968. According to him, which is Max Reimann street named in Kleinmachnow.
- Fritz Rücker lived as Minister for National Education, Science and Art in the Brandenburg State Government, based in Potsdam
- Jörg Schönbohm (* 1937 in Neu Golm ; † 2019 in Kleinmachnow ), politician and lieutenant general ret. D .; lived in Kleinmachnow
- Fritz Hermann Schwob , as Minister for Labor and Social Affairs in the state government of Brandenburg, was a member of the Kleinmachnow CDU local group chaired by Peter Bloch
SED party college
Between 1948 and 1954 was on the grounds of Hakeburg the seat Party School Karl Marx of the SED . The Hakeburg developed into the ideological center of the GDR. The following people were employed at the party university:
- Fritz Beyling (* 1909 in Burgörner , † 1963 in Berlin), politician KPD and SED; was head of the central editors' junior school of the central committee agitation department of the SED at the party university (1950/51)
- Wolfgang Leonhard (* 1921 in Vienna; also Wladimir Leonhard ; † 2014 in Daun), political writer; taught at the history faculty (1947–1949)
- Frida Rubiner (* 1879 in Mariampol ( Lithuania ), † 1952 in Kleinmachnow), communist ; As dean of the faculty, she taught basic questions of Marxism-Leninism
- Carola Stern (* 1925 in Ahlbeck ; † 2006 in Berlin; actually Erika Assmus ), publicist and journalist ; Lecturer as agent of the American Counter Intelligence Corps (1950/51)
- Kerstin Kaiser (* 1960), graduate Slavist and chairwoman of the left parliamentary group and opposition leader in the Brandenburg state parliament ; from 1984 to 1989 as a teacher in the intensive language training of the party school at the central committee of the SED "Karl Liebknecht" in Kleinmachnow
Other personalities
- Tina Bara (* 1962 in Kleinmachnow), photographer , professor for artistic photography at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art
- Nelly Marie Bojahr (* 1988 in Greifswald ), Miss Germany 2007; lives in Kleinmachnow
- Bushido (* 1978 in Bonn ), German rapper; has acquired a property in Kleinmachnow
- Rainer Ehrt (* 1960 in Elbingerode (Harz) ), graphic designer and illustrator; lives and works in Kleinmachnow
- Paul Eipper (* 1891 in Stuttgart , † 1964 in Munich), author of animal books; lived in Kleinmachnow around 1939–1949
- Hubert Faensen (* 1928 in Sandau ; † 2019), art historian and publishing director (Union Verlag; Koehler & Amelang); lived in Kleinmachnow since 1956, was a long-time member of the community council
- Fridolin Frenzel (* 1930; † 2019), Bauhaus painter ; lived and worked in Kleinmachnow
- Heinrich Funke (* 1867 in Trebbin , † 1936 in Kleinmachnow); is until today the only honorary citizen of Kleinmachnow; was a forester on the Hake'schen Gutshof from 1895 , later head of the estate. After the estate district was dissolved and changed into the Kleinmachnow community, he was the first community leader from 1920 to 1931.
- Gerhard Geidel (* 1925 in Kleinmachnow, † 2011), marine painter and illustrator; lived in Kleinmachnow
- Karl-Heinz Gerstner (* 1912 in Berlin-Charlottenburg , † 2005 in Kleinmachnow), journalist; enthused a large audience in the GDR with his economic articles in newspapers and on television; lived from March 1953 in Kleinmachnow at Zehlendorfer Damm 132
- Hartmut Köhler (* 1940 in Kleinmachnow; † 2012 in Trier), Romance studies, professor of Romance literature at the University of Trier
- Harald Kretzschmar (* 1931 in Berlin), caricaturist and employee of the satirical magazine Eulenspiegel ; lives in Kleinmachnow
- Ferdinand Lepcke (* 1866 in Coburg , † 1909 in Berlin), sculptor; worked in Kleinmachnow
- Horst Mahler (* 1936 in Haynau ), 1970 founding member of the left-wing terrorist Red Army faction ; became a member of the right-wing extremist NPD in 2000 , which he represented as a lawyer in the NPD ban proceedings until 2003 and later left again; Anti-Semite and Holocaust denier ; lived in Kleinmachnow for a long time.
- Elisabeth Pungs (* 1896 in Bremen; † 1945 in Berlin), resistance fighter against National Socialism; lived in Kleinmachnow from 1932 to 1936.
- Herbert Sander (* 1938 in Nordhausen ; † 2018 in Potsdam ), painter and graphic artist, creator of the symbol of the independent peace movement "Swords to Plowshares" in the GDR.
- Otto Schlumberger (* 1885 in Wunsiedel , † 1958 in Berlin), phytomedicist and agricultural botanist ; was President of the Central Biological Institute "Ost" in Kleinmachnow (1949–1952)
- Ingo Sommer (* 1942 in Paderborn), architectural historian and university professor; lives and works in Kleinmachnow.
- Margarete Sommer (* July 21, 1893, † June 30, 1965), social worker, Catholic resistance fighter against National Socialism; From 1941, as successor to cathedral provost Bernhard Lichtenberg, she headed the relief organization at the Bishop's Office in Berlin , thereby saving the lives of hundreds of Jews; fled from the communists from Kleinmachnow in 1950
- Adolf Sommerfeld (* 1886 in Kolmar ; † 1964 in Baden ), building contractor; opened up new settlement areas in Kleinmachnow with standardized single-family houses in almost industrial construction ("Sommerfeld-Siedlung")
- Werner Väth (born September 9, 1945 in Mittelinn , † November 19, 2012 in Berlin), political scientist and Vice President of the Free University of Berlin; Grave in the forest cemetery Kleinmachnow
- Philipp Walsleben (* 1987 in Potsdam ), professional cyclist, German champion, world champion (U23) and European champion (U23); lives in Kleinmachnow
literature
- Nicola Bröcker, Celina Kress: settle southwest. Kleinmachnow near Berlin. From the villa colony to the town house settlement. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2004, 2nd edition 2006, ISBN 3-936872-30-9 .
- Harald Kretzschmar: Paradise of Encounters. The artist town of Kleinmachnow. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86730-082-7 .
- Nicola Bröcker: Kleinmachnow near Berlin. Living between town and country 1920–1945. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-7861-2629-4 .
- Harald Kretzschmar: Meeting of the originals. Prominent in and around Kleinmachnow; with portrait drawings . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945256-35-0 .
Web links
- Literaturport.de: Author Lexicon Kleinmachnow
- Märkische Allgemeine: Waldfriedhof Kleinmachnow ( Memento from May 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ CDU Kleinmachnow: Address at the ceremony 60 years of CDU Kleinmachnow ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 22, 2005; Ernst Lemmer: Some things were different. Memories of a German Democrat . Langen Müller, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7844-2592-5 .
- ↑ Peter Bloch: Between Hope and Resignation. As CDU politician in Brandenburg 1945 - 1950. Ed .: Siegfried Suckut. With a foreword by Johann Baptist Gradl , Cologne 1986, p. 85 f .; ISBN 978-3-8046-8673-1
- ↑ Kleinmachnow community: From forester to community leader