Alexandra Hildebrandt is a Ukrainian artist of German descent, as well as co-founder and current Director of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum

Checkpoint Charlie Museum

The Checkpoint Charlie Museum is a museum in Berlin. It is named after the famous crossing point on the Berlin Wall, and was created to document the so-called "best border security system in the world"...

 and the chair of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft 13. August Association. In 1995, she married the museum's other co-founder and former Director Rainer Hildebrandt

Rainer Hildebrandt

Rainer Hildebrandt was a German anti-communist resistance fighter, historian and founder of the legendary Checkpoint Charlie Museum. He was involved in the resistance to the communist regime of the Soviet occupation zone since the 1940s, as a member of the Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit...

, and they remained married until his death in 2004. She is internationally noted for leading the construction of the Freedom Memorial

Freedom Memorial

The Freedom Memorial was a memorial to the victims of the Berlin Wall in the vicinity of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin. It opened on October 31, 2004, and was praised by both victims of the GDR communist regime and human rights advocates alike...

, which was controversially demolished by the Berlin city government in 2005.

Publications

• Ein Mensch Rainer Hildebrandt – Begegnungen Verl. Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-922484-41-7
• Die Mauer.Zahlen.Daten, Haus am Checkpoint Charlie Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3922484433

External links

• Checkpoint Charlie Museum