Barbara Junge was born November 4, 1943, in Neunhofen, under her maiden name Becher. After finishing school she graduated from university with an interpreter diploma. In 1968, she married the filmmaker Winfried Junge, and in 1969, she started out for the DEFA studio for documentary films where she worked as a dubbing director and was in charge of the foreign-language versions of the films.

From 1978 on, she also did the archival documentation for her husband's "Golzower Chroniken". When Winfried Junge's long-time cutter Charlotte Beck died, she joined her husband's work and began to edit – from "Diese Golzower – Umstandsbestimmung eines Ortes" (1983/84) on – all of the films together with her husband. Since "Diese Briten – diese Deutschen" (1988), they also did the writing and directing together.

In March of 1991, the Junges ended their work for the DEFA studios. In the following years, they continued their work for "Golzower Chronik" – partly supported by TV stations – for Klaus Volkenborn's "Journal-Film". In 1994, Klaus-Dieter Schmutzer's "a jour Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH" became their new production company. Since then, Barbara and Winfried Junge regularly put out feature-length documentary films about the lifes of the individual Golzow protagonists by combining previously unreleased material with new takes.

After the last part of the series, "Eigentlich wollte ich Förster werden – Bernd aus Golzow" (2002/2003), Barbara and Winfried Junge concluded their "Golzow-Zyklus" with the four-part documentary film "Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind... Die Kinder von Golzow" (2005-2008).

Since 1996, Barbara Junge is a member of Berlin's Akademie der Künste, in the section film and media arts.

Winfried and Barbara Junge are living in Berlin.