Joy Weisenborn

Margarete "Joy" Weisenborn (5 September 1914 in Essen, 2004 in Heide) was a German resistance fighter against Nazism as well as a writer and later a singer.

Life Weisenborn, born Margarethe Shnabel was the daughter Johannes Julius Schnabel who owned a small manufacturing factory in Wuppertal. Weisenborns father died when she was in middle school, and the family were forced into poverty, leading her to rebel.

Arrest On 26 September 1942, Joy and Günther Weisenborn were arrested. Weisenborn was imprisoned in the women's remand prison at 79 Kantstraße in Charlottenburg from 28 January 1943 and released in April 1943. Günther Weisenborn was sentenced to death by the Reichskriegsgericht and sent to Luckau prison, until he was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.

After World War II From 1969, after the death of Günther Weisenborn, she lived in Agarone, Switzerland. In old age, when the steps and stairs “on the mountain” were making her life difficult, she decided to move to a shared apartment in Ascona and then finally moved again to Heide, just before her death, so as to be near her son Sebastian.

In July 2017, their son, released a documentary film "Die guten Feinde" (The Good Enemies) that features his parents along with many members of the Rote Kapelle, that attempts to draw a portrait of the group.