Sarah Haffner
Sarah Haffner | |
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A self portrait drawn in 2002. The colour blue featured prominently in Haffner's life and in her work. | |
| Born | Margaret C. Pretzel 27 February 1940 |
| Died | 11 March 2018 (aged 78) |
| Nationality | German-British |
| Occupation(s) | Artist Author Feminist activist |
| Spouse(s) | Andreas Brandt (artist) (marriage dates 1960-1962) |
| Children | David Brandt (photographer) |
| Parent(s) | Sebastian Haffner (born Raimund Pretzel: 1907-1999) Erika Schmidt-Landry (born Erika Hirsch: 1899-1969) |
Sarah Haffner (born Margaret Pretzel: 27 February 1940 - 11 March 2018) was a German-British painter, author, and active feminist. In West Berlin she engaged with the protest issues of the 1960s, on occasion alongside her father, the journalist and writer Sebastian Haffner. Through a television documentary and a book she was instrumental in the late 1970s in establishing the city's first women's shelter. The range of her painting included portraits, still lifes, landscapes and cityscapes.