Freya Klier

Overview

Freya Klier born Dresden, East Germany February 4, 1950. Leading East German dissident; author, stage director, and documentary filmmaker. Served one year of 16-month prison term for attempt to escape East Germany, 1969. Founding member of Pankow Peace Circle, 1981; it contributed to nonviolent dissolution of East German state and fall of Berlin Wall. Arrested for treason and deported, 1988; after reunification she led fight against persistent racism.

Quotations

“My eleventh commandment: ‘Thou shalt remember.’" (photo freya-klier)