Carola Stern was born on November 14, 1925 in Ahlbeck, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. She was a writer, known for The Summer of the Samurai (1986), Walter Ulbricht - Porträt eines Stalinisten (1962) and The World at War (1973). She was married to Heinz Zöger. She died on January 19, 2006 in Berlin, Germany.