Alexandra Hildebrandt

Alexandra Hildebrandt (née Weissmann on 27 February 1959 in Kiev)[1][2] is a German artist, author, political activist and human rights activist. She is currently director of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum[3] and the chair of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft 13. August Association.[4] In 1995, she married the museum's other co-founder and former director Rainer Hildebrandt, and they remained married until his death in 2004.[5] She is internationally noted for leading the construction of the Freedom Memorial, which was controversially demolished in 2005.[6] The focus of Alexandra Hildebrandt's work is the preservation and advancement of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, the rehabilitation of the victims of the GDR-Regime, and the clarification of more destinies of refugees who suffered death at the East-West border. Furthermore, she takes a stand for the worldwide non-violent struggle for human rights, which was a matter very close to her late husbands heart. In 2004 she endowed the international human rights award, the Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Medal, which is given annually in recognition of extraordinary, non-violent commitment to human rights.[7]

Alexandra Hildebrandt
US Ambassador William Timken and Alexandra Hildebrandt at Checkpoint Charlie
Born
Alexandra Weissmann

27 February 1959
Kiev, Ukraine, USSR
OccupationArtist
director of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum
author
human rights activist
political activist
Spouse(s)Rainer Hildebrandt

From 2010 until 2013, Hildebrandt worked hard to secure the release of oligarch turned political activist, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Initially she started with an exhibition in her museum, the renown Checkpoint Charlie Museum, to raise awareness about the fate of Mr Khodorkovsky after Khodorkovskys lawyers and family asked her for help. Eventually, she involved former German Foreign Secretary, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, in her international campaign to free Khodorkovsky. In 2013 Khodorkovsky was released from prison after serving some ten years.[8]

In 2017, at the age of 58, she had her seventh child.[9]

Laureates - Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Human Rights Award

Members of the jury include: Henry Kissinger, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Joachim Gauck, Avi Primor, James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, Sara Nachama and Rainer Haushofer (nephew of Albrecht Haushofer).[20]

Publications
  • "Es wird viel gewaltsames Sterben geben..Rainer Hildebrandt-Ein Leben für die Freiheit, Biografie Teil 1", 2014, ISBN 978-3-922484-70-7
  • Ein Mensch Rainer Hildebrandt – Begegnungen Verl. Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-922484-41-7
  • Die Mauer.Zahlen.Daten, Haus am Checkpoint Charlie Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-922484-43-3
  • "DIE MAUER. Es geschah am Checkpoint Charlie", ISBN 978-3-922484-56-1
  • "Geteiltes Deutschland. Grenzschilder", ISBN 978-3-922484-44-8
  • "Zitate zur deutschen Teilung, zur MAUER und zur Wiedervereinigung", ISBN 978-3-922484-47-9

References
  1. "Zur Person: Alexandra Hildebrandt". Berliner Morgenpost (in German). 7 November 2004. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  2. "Ein Leben wider das Vergessen". Berliner Morgenpost (in German). Berlin, Germany. 10 June 2008. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
  3. Wagner, Susan L. (11 November 2009). "Wayland filmmaker present screening of new work". Wayland Town Crier. Wayland, MA. Archived from the original on 8 November 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
  4. Raabe, Margaret (13 August 2004). "Arbeitsgemeinschaft 13. August dokumentiert 57 weitere Todesopfer an der DDR-Grenze". Welt Online (in German). Germany. Archived from the original on 2009-10-20. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
  5. Richter, Christine (10 January 2004). "Der Freiheitskämpfer". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Berlin, Germany. Archived from the original on 2009-10-20. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
  6. "Berlin Demolishes Cold War Memorial on July 4" (Press release). Republicans Abroad International. 24 June 2005. Archived from the original on 21 July 2009. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 2016-10-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-khodorkovsky/inside-germanys-campaign-to-free-khodorkovsky-idUSBRE9BP0C420131226
  9. This woman is expecting her seventh child - at the age of 58
  10. Berlin, Berliner Morgenpost- (2005-12-16). "Rainer-Hildebrandt-Medaille für Yitzhak Rabin und Zheng Yichun". www.morgenpost.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  11. "Gewaltfrei für die Menschenrechte: Suzanne Mubarak geehrt". www.tagesspiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-15.
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  14. "Awards and Nominations". Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  15. http://www.focus.de/fotos/yoko-ono-wurde-mit-der-dr-rainer-hildebrandt-medaille-geehrt_mid_1194385.html
  16. "Sohn von Chruschtschow in Berlin geehrt". www.bz-berlin.de. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  17. Schulze, Tobias (2016-12-15). "Preisverleihung an Orbán-Minister: Rechte für Menschenrechte". Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). ISSN 0931-9085. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  18. https://www.mauermuseum.de/en/blog/awarding-dr-rainer-hildebrandt-medal-2018-2/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  19. http://www.christian-schmidt.de/?we_objectID=5626. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  20. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 2016-10-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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