Peter Wensierski (born 1954 in Heiligenhaus, Düsseldorf-Mettmann district) is a German author, journalist and documentary filmmaker. He has been working for the news magazine Der Spiegel since 1993.
He also became known for his books (including Beaten in the Name of the Lord) related documentaries on television and as a winner of the Federal Film Award for Berliner Blau and a “European Television Award” in 1993 for a film about Berlin-Marzahn.
Books in order of publication (in English and German):
Generation GDR: Truth, Freedom and One Man’s Last Journey – 2025
Jena paradise. The last journey of Matthias Domaschk. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2023.
Klaus Mehner: Parallel Worlds East-West. Photographs from Berlin 1964–1990. Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2021.
Window to freedom.The radix-blätter. Underground publishing and printing house of the GDR opposition. mitteldeutscher verlag, Halle 2019.
with Michael Sontheimer: Berlin – Stadt der Revolte. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, .
The uncanny lightness of revolution: How a group of young people from Leipzig dared to rebel in the GDR. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2017.
The forbidden journey. The story of an adventurous escape. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2014.
Beatings in the name of the Lord. The repressed history of children in care homes in the Federal Republic. Spiegel-Buchverlag in der Deutschen Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2006.
with Annette Bruhns: Gottes heimliche Kinder. Daughters and sons of priests tell their fate. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2004.
Ecological Problems and Criticism of Industrial Society in the GDR Today. Forschungsbericht 1984–1986, Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1988.
Nothing grows from top to bottom – environmental destruction and protest in the GDR. Fischer-Verlag, Frankfurt/Main 1986.
with Wolfgang Büscher: Null Bock auf DDR – Aussteigerjugend im anderen Deutschland. (= Spiegel-Buch, Band 47), Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1984.
with N. Haase, L. Reese: VEB Nachwuchs – Jugend in der DDR. Rowohlt-Verlag, Hamburg 1983.
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