Die Spiegel-Affäre
Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of nuclear war, two exemplary post-war male figures challenge an almost archaic feud: Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss and journalist Rudolf Augstein.
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as Rudolf Augstein
AliveBorn: October 21, 1968
Age: 57
Berlin, Germany
as Franz Josef Strauß
AliveBorn: April 25, 1966
Age: 60
Munich, West Germany [now Germany]
as Conrad Ahlers
AliveBorn: September 1, 1977
Age: 49
Leverkusen, Germany
as Hans Detlef Becker
AliveBorn: September 26, 1972
Age: 53
Munich, Bavaria, West Germany
as Claus Jacobi
AliveBorn: March 25, 1983
Age: 43
Jena, Thuringia, East Germany
as Leo Brawand
AliveBorn: July 26, 1972
Age: 54
Berlin, Germany
as Siegfried Buback
DeceasedBorn: October 19, 1958
Died: May 12, 2026
Age at death: 67
as Elke Maria Carlsson
AliveBorn: December 1, 1981
Age: 44
Vienna, Austria
as Marianne Strauß
AliveBorn: January 1, 1971
Age: 55
Hermannstadt, Romania
as Konrad Adenauer
DeceasedBorn: January 19, 1931
Died: April 26, 2020
Age at death: 89
as Volkmar Hopf
AliveBorn: November 2, 1954
Age: 71
Schruns, Germany
as Katharina Augstein
AliveBorn: October 23, 1968
Age: 57
Berlin, Germany
as Josef Augstein
AliveBorn: September 21, 1958
Age: 67
Steinheidel-Erlabrunn, Germany
as Oberst Martin
AliveBorn: September 20, 1972
Age: 53
Essen, Germany
as Frau Jacobi
AliveBorn: April 24, 1980
Age: 46
Guben, Germany
as Sekretärin
AliveBorn: July 17, 1987
Age: 39
Naumburg an der Saale, Germany
as Hans Globke
AliveBorn: January 1, 1949
Age: 77
Berlin, Germany