Katrin Hattenhauer was not allowed to sit the Abitur, Germany's secondary-school examinations.
10 Facts About Katrin Hattenhauer
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Katrin Hattenhauer moved on to working for the Wittenberg research centre of the East-German churches and completed an internship at the Zionsparish in Dresden.
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Katrin Hattenhauer went on hunger strike at the Thomas-church Leipzig and criticised the constitutional capacity of the SED directly and openly.
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Katrin Hattenhauer was well known in opposition-circles and church-groups in the GDR, she had participated in the Oecomenical Convention and taken part in trans-regional ecological seminars.
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Katrin Hattenhauer was the Leipzig contact person to the ecological library a meeting point of the opposition groups in East-Berlin.
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On 7 November 2014 Katrin Hattenhauer spoke at Germany's ceremonial act, celebrating the 25 year anniversary of the fall of the wall and German reunification at the Brandenburg Gate.
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Katrin Hattenhauer has got one son and is living together with her husband in Berlin and Oxford.
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Katrin Hattenhauer has had exhibitions in numerous places in Europe and in the United States.
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The late Freya von Moltke wrote about her: In the time before and around 1989, Katrin Hattenhauer has dared to demand freedom and has experienced what that can mean for the personal future.
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Katrin Hattenhauer was awarded the Officer's Cross of the German Order of Merit.