Waldfriedhof Dahlem
Cemetery in Berlin, Germany
Grave of Harald Juhnke The Waldfriedhof Dahlem (Dahlem forest cemetery) is a cemetery in Berlin , in the district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf on the edge of the Grunewald forest at Hüttenweg 47. Densely planted with conifers and designed between 1931 and 1933 after the plans of Albert Brodersen, it is one of Berlin's more recent cemeteries. Its graves include those of writers such as Gottfried Benn , composers such as Wolfgang Werner Eisbrenner and entertainers like Harald Juhnke , and put it among the so-called "Prominentenfriedhöfe" or celebrity cemeteries.
Graves of notable people
Karl Anton (1898–1979), film director and film producerMichael Ballhaus (1935–2017), cinematographerAntoinette Becker (1920–1998), writerCarl Heinrich Becker (1876–1933), orientalist and politicianGottfried Benn (1886–1956), poetHeinz Berggruen (1914–2007), art collectorFrank Michael Beyer (1928–2008), composerHans-Otto Borgmann (1901–1977), film composerBully Buhlan (1924–1982), singer, actorCarl Correns (1864–1933), botanistErnst von Delius (1912–1937), racecar driverAlexander Dinghas (1908–1974), mathematicianFranz Dischinger (1887–1953), civil and structural engineerBlandine Ebinger (1899–1993), actress and chansonnière Karin Eickelbaum (1937–2004), actressCarl Otto von Eicken (1873–1960), physicianAdolf Erman (1854–1937), Egyptologist and lexicographerWolfgang Werner Eisbrenner (1908–1981), composer and conductorFriedrich Fedde (1873–1942), botanistCurth Flatow (1920–2011), dramatist and screenwriterErnst Fraenkel (1898–1975), political scientistRoland Freisler (1893–1945), notorious chief judge of the Nazi People's Court . He is buried in his wife's family plot in an unmarked grave. Ironically, one of his victims, Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld (see below), is also buried in the cemetery.Ludwig Fulda (1862–1939), playwright and translatorKlaus Gysi (1912–1999), politicianErnst Hartert (1859–1933), ornithologistO.E. Hasse (1903–1978), actorHeinz Hentschke (1895–1970), actor, director and librettistGünter Herlitz (1913–2010), businessman (Herlitz stationery company )Klaus Höhne (1927–2006), actorCarl Hofer (1878–1955), painterHelene Jacobs (1906–1993), resister La Jana (1905–1940), dancer and actressWerner Janensch (1878–1969), paleontologist and geologistHarald Juhnke (1929–2005), actor and entertainerJosef Paul Kleihues (1933–2004), architectFriedrich Wilhelm Kopsch (1868–1955), anatomistHilde Körber (1906–1969), actressHans Christian Korting (1952–2012), dermatologist and medical researcherRobert H. Lochner (1918–2003), journalistBobby E. Lüthge (1891–1964), screenwriterWolfgang Lukschy (1905–1983), actorMarie-Elisabeth Lüders (1878–1966), politicianLeny Marenbach (1907–1984), actressArnold Marquis (1921–1990), actorErich Mühsam (1878–1934), author and anarchist, murdered in Oranienburg concentration camp Zenzl Mühsam (1884–1962), anarchistRudolf Nelson (1878–1960), composer and theatre directorHermann Noack (1895–1958), Art and bronze caster; gravestone with relief tablet based on a model by Ernst Barlach Bernd Rosemeyer (1909–1938), racecar driver, with his wife Elly Beinhorn , aviatorHeinrich Sahm (1877–1939), mayor of Berlin and administrator of Free State of Danzig Günter Schabowski (1929–2015), politician of East GermanyWolfgang Schleif (1912–1984), film directorKarl Schmidt-Rottluff * (1884–1976), painterWalther Schreiber (1884–1958), mayor of West BerlinFranz Schreker * (1878–1934), composerUlrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld (1902–1944), resisterRenée Sintenis * (1888–1965), sculptorWerner Sombart * (1863–1941), sociologistCamilla Spira (1906–1997), actressHerbert Stass (1919–1999), actorIlse Steppat (1917–1969), actressIvan Stranski (1897–1979), Bulgarian physical chemistKäte Stresemann (1883–1970), wife of the German Chancellor, Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Gustav Stresemann Erwin Stresemann * (1889–1972), zoologistWolfgang Stresemann * (1904–1998), conductor and composerWilhelm Tank (1888–1967), painterGeorg Tappert (1880–1957), painterGünter Tembrock (1918–2011), zoologistHeinrich Tessenow * (1876–1950), architectIlse Trautschold (1906–1991), actress and comedianKurt Ulrich (1905–1967), film producerAlfred Vohrer (1914–1986), film directorFritz Arno Wagner (1884–1958), cinematographerWilliam Wauer * (1866–1962), sculptor and film directorRichard von Weizsäcker (1920–2015), politician, presidentSybil Werden (1924–2007), actress and dancerTheodor Wiegand (1864–1936), archaeologistHeinz-Günter Wittmann (1927–1990), biochemistJürgen Wolters (1940–2015), professor of econometricsJohannes Würtz (1875–1958), founder of the Behindertenpädagogik (exact location of grave is unknown)
Bibliography
Hannelore Prüfer, Der Berliner Gartendirektor Albert Brodersen (1857–1930) , in: Berlinische Monatsschrift, Heft 10/1997, Seiten 77/78 online at Edition Luisenstadt
Klaus Hammer: Historische Friedhöfe & Grabmäler in Berlin , Stattbuch Verlag Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-922778-32-1
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