Starnberg

History

Transport

Main sights

• Starnberger Schloss with the castle garden
• St. Joseph's Church

  Notable people

• Lothar-Günther Buchheim author and painter died at Starnburg.
• German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau had his home there, where he died.
• Oskar Maria Graf, the socially conscious writer, was born in Aufkirchen near Starnberg in 1894. He fought for the Bavarian Soviet Republic in Munich in 1919. He fled his homeland in 1938 with his Jewish wife for the U.S.A., when National Socialism gripped Germany. Graf was never fully able to adjust to life in the United States or, more to the point, away from his homeland, Bavaria.
• The philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas has long lived and worked in Starnberg as a director of the "Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung der Lebensbedingungen der wissenschaftlich-technischen Welt".
• The long-lived actor Johannes Heesters lived in Starnberg until his death.
• King Ludwig II of Bavaria mysteriously drowned in Lake Starnberg at the small town of Berg nearby, on the evening of 13 June 1886.
• The Frankfurt School philosopher Herbert Marcuse died in Starnberg.
• The Austrian writer Gustav Meyrink was a resident of Starnberg from 1911 until his death in 1932 and is buried in the local cemetery. Among his best remembered works is The Golem, which inspired the 1920 classic German Expressionist film .
• Multiple IMO gold medalist winner, Christian Reiher was born in Starnberg.
• Actress Marianne Sägebrecht was born here in Starnberg..
• Multiple members of the Siemens dynasty live, or have lived in Starnberg
• Formula One driver Adrian Sutil was born in Starnberg.
• Maha Vajiralongkorn, 10th king of Thailand
• SS General Karl Wolff lived in Starnberg after the war.