Marianne Hofmann was born May 28th,1917, in Berlin Germany during the height of World War l. Perhaps her birth at such a tumultuous time, prior to the new birth of Berlin played an important role in shaping her equally tumultuous personality. Marianne struggled through World War ll finding employment for the German military, then an internment in a Russian prison camp. After escaping from that camp, she gathered up her daughter and moved to Fuessen, Germany, as far South as she could. Finding employment for the American Army as a secretary during the day and waitressing and managing a famous German Baumgarten Restaurant in Fuessen, Germany frequented by American soldiers. With the help of a W.A.C. - Marianne and her daughter Christel moved to the United States, where she actually received a service offer to the C.I.A. Marianne found her footing in New York City, she married, purchased a famous delicatessen, then set her sights on cleaning up Manhattan streets, helping clean up her neighborhood by Arden street with a lot of help from the 34th Police Precinct. Like an energetic pendulum, Marianne lived life swinging to both ends of a spectrum, touching countless lives along the way.