Marienetta Jirkowsky was born on 25 August 1962 in Bad Saarow, the only daughter to the skilled bricklayer Klaus Jirkowsky, and his wife, Astrid, employed by the Reifenkombinat Fürstenwalde, a tire manufacturing plant, where Marienetta would eventually take an apprenticeship and employment as a textile processor.
Numerous newspaper and magazine articles indicated that by this time, Marienetta Jirkowsky was three months pregnant [REF].