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Marlies Quantity with her husband Wolfgang Quantity (2010)

Marlies Menge (* 1934 ) is a German journalist .

Private life

Marlies Menge grew up in Potsdam . In the mid-1950s she left Potsdam-Babelsberg and moved to Hamburg . In 1961 she settled in West Berlin . Her work always dealt with the GDR . After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she moved to Babelsberg in Brandenburg.

With her husband, the author Wolfgang Quantity , Marlies Quantity has three sons. The couple lived together in a villa in the Berlin district of Zehlendorf and in a house on Sylt until Wolfgang Menge's death .

Journalistic activity

Together with the photographer Rudi Meisel, Marlies Menge was the first accredited “Zeit” correspondent in the GDR since 1977/78 - and both stayed there until 1990. Meisel and Quantity captured everyday life in the GDR there. She was also the author of the column “From my notebook” in “ Die Zeit ” (articles from 1987 to 1992 are in the online archive). Since 1990 she has been a reporter from the new federal states.

Award

Selected Works

  • Tips for traveling to the GDR. Woodapple. Berlin 1974.
  • Cities that nobody knows anymore: reports from the GDR. With Rudi Meisel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-446-12923-5 .
  • Pictures of Germany. 5. Family festivities. With Rudi Meisel. Cantz`sche print shop, 1986.
  • The Saxons, the state people of the GDR. Piper Verlag GmbH, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-492-02511-0 .
  • Mecklenburg: Travel pictures from the GDR. With Rudi Meisel. Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-462-01986-4 .
  • Nothing works without us. The revolution in the GDR. With a foreword by Christa Wolf . DVA, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-421-06566-7 .
  • Back to Babelsberg. View of a united country. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-462-02219-9 .
  • The invisible border or life in two worlds. With Ernst-Michael Brandt, Hans Harald Bräutigam and Klemens Polatschek. Luchterhand, 1993.
  • Mecklenburg. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1996.
  • Cities that nobody knows anymore. With Rudi Meisel. Carl Hanser, 1999.
  • Walks. With Roger Melis. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-350-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/site/40208852/default.aspx
  2. ↑ http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/site/40208852/default.aspx
personal data
SURNAME Crowd, Marlies
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1934