authority", monitoring the media on behalf of ministers. The job came with high status and a large office in Berlin: she also found the posting highly educative. She moved back to Saxony in 1962 and took over at "Für Dich", an illustrated newspaper targeting women. A "test edition" was produced in December 1962: starting in 1963, "Für Dich" then appeared as a weekly publication for nearly three decades. "Für Dich" had few obvious rivals and, at its peak, achieved a circulation in East Germany of almost a million copies. Freyer served as its editor in chief between 1962 and 1968. The job involved frequent interaction with Lotte Ulbricht, the leader's wife, who took a close interest in the magazine. Recalling the situation many years later Yvonne-Ruth would insist that she had enough backbone, relevant experience and political dexterity to handle it. As before, Freyer's editorial duties were combined with other political responsibilities. Between 1964 and 1969 Freyer served as a national presidium member with the DFD. For some of this time she also served as a member of the so-called "Women Commission" set up by and reporting to the Politburo, which was the inner caucus of the powerful Party Central Committee. Between 1968 and 1981 Yvonne-Ruth Freyer was editor in chief of the high-profile (and, some thought, unapologetically escapist) women's magazine "Sibylle". Personal In October 1981 Yvonne-Ruth Freyer married the journalist Lothar „Kolja“ Killmer (1919–2000). It was her first marriage and his second. Her husband's first wife, Anja Killmer-Korn, had died five months earlier. Anja, who came originally from Vienna, had been a resistance activist during the Hitler years and was twenty-three years older than her husband. Yvonne-Ruth had known both of them since 1946, having met "Kolja" Killmer on a course back then. There are suggestions that she had come close to becoming his first wife, before having to relocate from Saxony in order to spend a term at the Karl-Marx Party Academy near Berlin. Although she was already 60, and her husband 62, when they married, the two of them went on to enjoy an exceptionally happy 18 years of marriage together. Notes References People from Berlin East German journalists East German women Journalists from Berlin German women journalists Women magazine editors Women newspaper editors Socialist Unity Party of Germany members Communist Party of Germany members 1921 births 2014 deaths 20th-century German women German newspaper editors