Heike Mundzeck was born in 1938 in Hamburg. After studying Law, she worked in the cultural department at the newspaper Die Welt. Since 1971, she has been a freelance journalist and television critic for various newspapers. Since 1974, she has made over 100 documentaries on legal, social, historical, family and women's topics, including: "Ich will mein Kind weggeben" (1976), "Justitias Toechter" (1990), "Ich haette geschossen, damals" (1997), "Musik, das war Leben" (1998), and "Leben mit dem Massengrab" (1999), among others.

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