The Waldfriedhof Dahlem (Dahlem forest cemetery) is a cemetery in Berlin, in the district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf on the edge of the Grunewald forest at Hüttenweg 47. Densely planted with conifers and designed between 1931 and 1933 after the plans of Albert Brodersen, it is one of Berlin's more recent cemeteries. Its graves include those of writers such as Gottfried Benn, composers such as Wolfgang Werner Eisbrenner and entertainers like Harald Juhnke, and put it among the so-called "Prominentenfriedhöfe" or celebrity cemeteries.
Graves of notable people
Karl Anton (1898–1979), film director and film producer Michael Ballhaus (1935–2017), cinematographer Antoinette Becker (1920–1998), writer Carl Heinrich Becker (1876–1933), orientalist and politician Gottfried Benn (1886–1956), poet Heinz Berggruen (1914–2007), art collector Frank Michael Beyer (1928–2008), composer Hans-Otto Borgmann (1901–1977), film composer Bully Buhlan (1924–1982), singer, actor Carl Correns (1864–1933), botanist Ernst von Delius (1912–1937), racecar driver Alexander Dinghas (1908–1974), mathematician Franz Dischinger (1887–1953), civil and structural engineer Blandine Ebinger (1899–1993), actress and chansonnière Karin Eickelbaum (1937–2004), actress Carl Otto von Eicken (1873–1960), physician Adolf Erman (1854–1937), Egyptologist and lexicographer Wolfgang Werner Eisbrenner (1908–1981), composer and conductor Friedrich Fedde (1873–1942), botanist Curth Flatow (1920–2011), dramatist and screenwriter Ernst Fraenkel (1898–1975), political scientist Roland Freisler (1893–1945), notorious chief judge of the Nazi People's Court. He is buried in his wife's family plot in an unmarked grave. Ironically, one of his victims, Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld (see below), is also buried in the cemetery. Ludwig Fulda (1862–1939), playwright and translator Klaus Gysi (1912–1999), politician Ernst Hartert (1859–1933), ornithologist O.E. Hasse (1903–1978), actor Heinz Hentschke (1895–1970), actor, director and librettist Günter Herlitz (1913–2010), businessman (Herlitz stationery company) Klaus Höhne (1927–2006), actor Carl Hofer (1878–1955), painter Helene Jacobs (1906–1993), resister La Jana (1905–1940), dancer and actress Werner Janensch (1878–1969), paleontologist and geologist Harald Juhnke (1929–2005), actor and entertainer Josef Paul Kleihues (1933–2004), architect Friedrich Wilhelm Kopsch (1868–1955), anatomist Hilde Körber (1906–1969), actress Hans Christian Korting (1952–2012), dermatologist and medical researcher Robert H. Lochner (1918–2003), journalist Bobby E. Lüthge (1891–1964), screenwriter Wolfgang Lukschy (1905–1983), actor Marie-Elisabeth Lüders (1878–1966), politician Leny Marenbach (1907–1984), actress Arnold Marquis (1921–1990), actor Erich Mühsam (1878–1934), author and anarchist, murdered in Oranienburg concentration camp Zenzl Mühsam (1884–1962), anarchist Rudolf Nelson (1878–1960), composer and theatre director Hermann Noack (1895–1958), Art and bronze caster; gravestone with relief tablet based on a model by Ernst Barlach Bernd Rosemeyer (1909–1938), racecar driver, with his wife Elly Beinhorn, aviator Heinrich Sahm (1877–1939), mayor of Berlin and administrator of Free State of Danzig Günter Schabowski (1929–2015), politician of East Germany whose mistaken answer lead to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Wolfgang Schleif (1912–1984), film director Karl Schmidt-Rottluff* (1884–1976), painter Walther Schreiber (1884–1958), mayor of West Berlin Franz Schreker* (1878–1934), composer Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld (1902–1944), resister Renée Sintenis* (1888–1965), sculptor Werner Sombart* (1863–1941), sociologist Camilla Spira (1906–1997), actress Herbert Stass (1919–1999), actor Ilse Steppat (1917–1969), actress Ivan Stranski (1897–1979), Bulgarian physical chemist Käte Stresemann (1883–1970), wife of the German Chancellor, Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Gustav Stresemann Erwin Stresemann* (1889–1972), zoologist Wolfgang Stresemann* (1904–1998), conductor and composer Wilhelm Tank (1888–1967), painter Georg Tappert (1880–1957), painter Günter Tembrock (1918–2011), zoologist Heinrich Tessenow* (1876–1950), architect Ilse Trautschold (1906–1991), actress and comedian Kurt Ulrich (1905–1967), film producer Alfred Vohrer (1914–1986), film director Fritz Arno Wagner (1884–1958), cinematographer William Wauer* (1866–1962), sculptor and film director Richard von Weizsäcker (1920–2015), politician, president Sybil Werden (1924–2007), actress and dancer Theodor Wiegand (1864–1936), archaeologist Heinz-Günter Wittmann (1927–1990), biochemist Jürgen Wolters (1940–2015), professor of econometrics Johannes Würtz (1875–1958), founder of the Behindertenpädagogik (exact location of grave is unknown)
Bibliography Hannelore Prüfer, Der Berliner Gartendirektor Albert Brodersen (1857–1930), in: Berlinische Monatsschrift, Heft 10/1997, Seiten 77/78 online at Edition Luisenstadt Klaus Hammer: Historische Friedhöfe & Grabmäler in Berlin, Stattbuch Verlag Berlin 1994,
External links
List of burials at the Waldfriedhof Dahlem