Nina Grunenberg

Beginning her career in West Germany during the 1950s and '60s, when political journalism was largely a male prerogative, she wrote reports on social life in her country.

She also contributed frequently to the Hamburg-based weekly newspaper Die Zeit, whose editorial staff she joined in 1961, 1965 or 1969 (sources differ).

[3] Starting in 1969, she was based at the Die Zeit's main office in Hamburg as an editor for education and academic policies.

[4][5] In 1992 Die Zeit set up a new section named “The Knowledge Department” (”das Ressort Wissen”).

[3] In 1986 Nina Grunenberg married, as her husband's second wife, the astrophysicist Reimar Lüst, who was president of the Max Planck Society from 1972 to 1984 and a pioneer of space research.