Gabriel Grüner and Volker Krämer were two journalists for Stern magazine who were shot by Yugoslavian soldiers at a check point at the Dulje Pass on the west side of Kosovo, near the village of Dulje, Prizrenski Podgor about 25 km from Prizren, two days after the Kosovo War had ended on June 13, 1999. The pair of journalists were the first civilians from a NATO country to be killed during the war. Their translator Senol Alit was also killed on site. Gabriel Grüner Personal Gabriel Grüner was born on August 8, 1963 in Mals, Italy. He studied at the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria. Grüner's girlfriend was Beatrix Gerstberger, who was six months pregnant with their first child Jakob at the time of his death. He was killed at the age of 35 and was buried in Italy. Gerstberger, also a journalist, wrote a book where she documented her own story about Grüner and collected the stories of other women who had lost their husbands. Career Grüner started his journalism career in 1991, and worked for eight years before he was killed. He was reporting from around the world and had been to Afghanistan, Algerien, Sudan. He was awarded several awards for his great works, such as the World Press Photo Award and the Royal Society of Photography. Volker Krämer Personal Volker Krämer was possibly born on October 12, 1943 in Germany. "Volker has done an extraordinary job, so he has been able to work for the Stern for so long, because he can choose between the best photographers in the world and therefore he is very good at work, which was also fun to him," stated one of his classmates. Not much information can be recovered from his personal life. He was encouraged in his career by his mother. He took notes on different things in addition to taking photographs. However, photography was what he loved to do. He and his mother would travel together and he would take photos that inspired him. He worked for the Stern magazine for many years. He once said: "When I am a reporter, I move in the everyday lives of normal people, and through the camera I notice how absurd and partially funny which sometimes looks." Career Krämer worked for the Stern magazine for about thirty years. He had been with the company longer than Grüner. He started his career as