Anna-Maria Henckel von Donnersmarck

Countess Anna-Maria Ebba Barbara Henckel von Donnersmarck (née Countess Anna-Maria von Berg; born 5 March 1940) is a German literary scout, sociologist, and former political activist. She was active in the West German student movement as a member of the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund.

Early life Henckel von Donnersmarck was born Countess Anna-Maria von Berg-Schönfeld on 5 March 1940 in Magdeburg to Count Karl Ludwig Hans-Hubert von Berg and Countess Barbara von der Asseburg-Neindorf.

In 1945, when she was four years old, her family fled from their home in Saxony during the expulsion of the Germans by the Soviet Army and settled in West Berlin with some of their relatives.

Henckel von Donnersmarck was active in the West German student movement, a left-wing social movement consisting of mass student protests in West Germany rejecting traditionalism and opposing the German political authority's inclusion of former Nazi officials in government.

Since her husband's death in 2009, she has lived in an apartment in Charlottenburg, in Berlin.