Günther Weisenborn was a German writer and fighter in the German Resistance against Nazism. He was notable for collaborating with Bertolt Brecht, along with Hanns Eisler, Slatan Dudow, on the play, Th
Portrait of Weisenborn, 1946
Günther Weisenborn (c.) with Harro Schulze-Boysen and Marta Husemann
Die Illegalen premiered on March 21, 1946, at Berlin's Hebbel Theater. (Pictured: Ernst Wilhelm Borchert)
The Red Orchestra was the name given by the Abwehr Section III.F to anti-Nazi resistance workers in Germany in August 1941. It primarily referred to a loose network of resistance groups, connected thr
Günther Weisenborn
…returned to Germany in 1937 and began leading a double life, working with the Nazi cultural establishment, while he worked with the Resistance group, the Red Orchestra. In 1941, he began working as dramaturge at the Schiller Theater and he was married to Margarete "Joy" Schnabel (1914–2004), whom he met in 1939, .when…
2010 sculpture by Achim Kühn [de], at Schulze-Boysen-Straße 12, in Lichtenberg, Berlin
Harro Schulze-Boysen; East Germany (1964)
Memorial stone for Arvid and Mildred Harnack at Friedhof Zehlendorf cemetery in Berlin-Zehlendorf, Onkel-Tom-Straße 30–33