1. Since the reunification of Germany in 1990, Dahn has been an outspoken critic of the reunification process.
10 Facts About Daniela Dahn
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Daniela Dahn is the daughter of the journalist Karl-Heinz Gerstner and fashion journalist Sibylle Gerstner, founder of the East German fashion magazine "Sibyl", and the older sister of Sonja Gerstner, who famously documented her own mental illness and the professional treatment she received.
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Daniela Dahn was born just two days after the founding of the East German state.
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Daniela Dahn was brought up in Kleinmachnow, Brandenburg in what was then East Germany.
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Daniela Dahn studied journalism in Leipzig and then worked as a television journalist, editing for GDR Television, before turning to freelance writing in 1981.
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In 1989 Daniela Dahn became one of the founders of the GDR opposition group Democratic Awakening.
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Daniela Dahn's nomination was challenged by the Social Democratic Party of Germany and her candidacy was retracted at the last moment, after heated debate among the parties of the Brandenburg state parliament.
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Daniela Dahn serves on the Executive Board of the writers' association PEN and lectures internationally.
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Daniela Dahn is on the Advisory Board of the Humanist Union, and has held the post of Writer in Residence at Sunderland University in the UK.
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In February 2023, Daniela Dahn was among the initial signers of a petition calling for an end to military support to Ukraine in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.