sentences:  In 1952, she became the first female head of a juried court, and, in 1969, she led the 9th Große Strafkammer of the regional superior court in Berlin.In 1984 she published a brief memoir, Die Stärke der Stille, translated into English in 2000 as "The Power of Solitude".She was a lifelong living partner of Ulrich Biel, a CDU politician who died in 1996.