Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg
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Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg, real name Beate Hartung (20 June 1926 – 17 September 2017[1]) was a German teacher and author.
Born in Hamm, Schmeichel-Falkenberg studied German and English at the University of Göttingen and then worked as a journalist for the BBC in England. Later she returned to Münster and worked as a teacher. With her second husband Manfred Schmeichel, she founded a special education school in Mössingen, which is part of today's Stiftung KBF.[2]
Schmeichel-Falkenberg worked for some time at Westdeutscher Rundfunk as a presenter in the programme Hier und heute and at the University of Münster at the Institutum Judaicum.
She was co-founder of the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft and the Kurt Tucholsky-Gesellschaft. In the "Society for Exile Research" she headed the working group "Women in Exile".
Schmeickel-Falkenberg lived in Mössingen where she died at the age of 91 and [3] was buried in the local cemetery.[4]
