German historian focusing on German social-democraty.
She started working as a journalist for the social-democratic newspaper Berliner Stimme and in 1977 later worked for the press service of the Social-Democratic Party (SPD) untill 1995.
In 1991 she wrote critical about the SPD in "Die Linke und die Einheit" and left the party in 1995.
from 1983-2003 she used the name Brigitte Seebacher-Brandt.