Ingeborg Euler

Ingeborg Euler
Born	6 September 1927 Breslau, Silesia, Germany
Died	20 Mar h 2005 Kladow (Berlin), Germany
Occupation	cabaret artiste writer television journalist
Spouse(s)	(1928-1965)
Children	1. Babett 2. Bastian 3. Kattrin 4. Susann 5. Kerstin

Ingeborg Euler (6 September 1927 - 20 March 2005} began her public career as a cabaret artiste and author. After the early death of her husband, the campaigning "Auschwitz journalist" , she herself became more widely known as a German television journalist.

Ingeborg Euler was born in Breslau (as Wrocław was known at that time), her parents' only child. Her upbringing was a secure one apart from the impact on the entire family of her father's traumatic wartime experiences. By the time she enrolled at school, in 1934, they were living in Dresden. In 1937, after only three years at primary school, she moved on to secondary school in the Steglitz quarter of Berlin, then in 1942 passing her school final exams (abitur) as a pupil at the secondary school in Zossen, just outside Berlin. At school she participated in drama, playing a lead male role - that of Ferdinand in Schiller's play, Kabale und Liebe ("Intrigue and Love") in a wartime production by the school's drama society.

War ended in May 1945. The country faced a desperate shortage of working age population, notably among teachers, and under the scheme imposed by the military administration, she embarked on a career as a "new teacher" at a school in without needing to train and qualify in the way that would have been required in more normal times. However, in 1946 she enrolled at Berlin University (subsequently known as "The Humboldt") where she was the youngest female student of her year group at the philosophy faculty. After the war the western two thirds of Germany had been divided into four large military occupation zones. Berlin had been subdivided into four separate occupation zones. The eastern part of the city, incorporating the university, was part of the Soviet occupation zone. As a student Inge Euler also pursued her active interest in stage work, appearing alongside Ursula Herking and Jo Herbst in student cabaret shows.

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