What is Elfriede Brüning?
[[File:Elfriede Brüning (2003) by Guenter Prust.jpg|thumb|Brüning in June 2003.]] '''Elfriede Brüning''' (8 November 1910 &ndash; 5 August 2014), also known as '''Elke Klent''', was a [[Germans|German]] [[Communism|communist]] [[journalist]] and [[novelist]]. She worked for [[newspaper]]s such as the ''[[Berliner Tageblatt]]'', the ''[[Berliner Börsen-Courier]]'' and the ''[[Vossische Zeitung]]''. Brüning was born in [[Berlin]]. In 1930, she joined the [[Communist Party of Germany]]. Before [[World War II]], she was arrested in 1935 for communism-related activities, before being released in 1937. In 1937, she married Joachim Barckhausen, a [[writer]] and [[editor]]. Their daughter, Christiane, born in 1942, also became a writer. After the [[German reunification]], she became a member of [[Die Linke]] ({{Lang-en|The Left}}). Brüning [[Centenarian|turned 100]] in November 2010. Brüning died from [[natural causes]] on 5 August 2014 in Berlin, aged 103.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jungewelt.de/2014/08-08/014.php|title=Vom Alltag in der Etappe|work=[[Junge Welt]]|date=8 August 2014|accessdate=29 August 2014|language=German}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * {{Official|http://www.elfriede-bruening.de}} * {{IMDb name|4730955}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bruning, Elfriede}} [[Category:1910 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:German centenarians]] [[Category:German communists]] [[Category:German journalists]] [[Category:German novelists]] [[Category:German prisoners]] [[Category:Writers from Berlin]] {{Bio-stub}}