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Marion Gräfin Dönhoff

German journalist (1909-2002) · Germany · Journalists · Died at 92

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Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff was a German journalist and publisher who participated in the resistance against Nazism, along with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg.

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2002Died11 March 20021999Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political BookAward1996Erich-Kästner awardAwardReinhold Maier MedalAward1995Johann Heinrich Merck HonourAward1987Heinrich Heine PrizeAward1971Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' AssociationAward1966Theodor Heuss AwardAward1964Joseph E. Drexel awardAward1909Born2 December 1909

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Schloss Friedrichstein, the family's estate in East Prussia in 1927. It was the largest castle in East Prussia. The Red Army destroyed it in January 1945.Schloss Friedrichstein, the family's estate in East Prussia in 1927. It was the largest castle in East Prussia. The Red Army destroyed it in January 1945.

Awards

Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book1999
Reinhold Maier Medal1996
Erich-Kästner award1996
Johann Heinrich Merck Honour1995
Heinrich Heine Prize1987
Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association1971
Theodor Heuss Award1966
Joseph E. Drexel award1964
Four Freedoms Award - Freedom of Speech
Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Honorary Doctorate from Columbia University
Honorary Doctor of the University of Birmingham
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Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff was a German journalist and publisher who participated in the resistance against Nazism, along with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. After the war, she became one of Germany's leading journalists and intellectuals, working for more than 55 years as an editor and later publisher of the Hamburg-based weekly newspaper Die Zeit.

Country
Germany
Category
Journalists
Type
Journalist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1909 to 2002 · aged 92

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