Vera Brühne

Vera Brühne (February 6, 1910 in Essen – April 17, 2001 in Munich) became famous throughout Germany as a victim of miscarriage of justice. In 1961/62, she was convicted, together with Johann Ferbach, of having murdered the physician Otto Praun and his lover. Ulrich Sonnemann considered the case as a new Dreyfus affair.[1] In 1979, she was pardoned by Bavarian governor Franz Josef Strauss.[2]

Dramatization

• Vera Brühne (2001), film

References

1. SONNEMANN, U. Der bundesdeutsche Dreyfus-Skandal: Rechtsbruch und Denkverzicht in der zehn Jahre alten Justizsache Brühne-Ferbach. 1970.
2. So war's 1962. Der Fall Vera Brühne (www.wdr.de)

External links

• Vera Brühne on IMDb
• Literature by and about Vera Brühne in the German National Library catalogue
• Lebenslänglich für Vera Brühne. Deutsche Welle.
• Der Tod kam nicht um 19.45 Uhr. In: Der Spiegel, 1973, n. 39.
• Die wahrhaftige Lügnerin. In: Die Zeit, n. 22/2001.
• Film Documentation „Die großen Kriminalfälle: Lebenslänglich für Vera Brühne“, by Michael Gramberg, WDR, May 11, 2000.