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Gisela Oechelhaeuser (born Gisela Ekardt, 22 January 1944) is a German cabaret performer and impresario with a doctorate in modern languages. Her career was adversely affected in 1999 when it was disclosed that twenty years earlier, while at university, she actively operated as a paid informer for the Ministry for State Security under the one-party German dictatorship of that time.

Gisela Oechelhaeuser, geborene Ekardt (* 22. Januar 1944 in Schmauch, Kreis Preußisch Holland in Ostpreußen) ist eine deutsche Kabarettistin.

Biography
Gisela Ekardt was born, the youngest of her parents' four daughters, in Schmauch, a little village in the marshy flatlands south of what was at that time known as Königsberg in East Prussia. Her father, a Lutheran pastor, died in France during the war. Caught up in the ethnic cleansing of 1944/45, the widowed mother and her children ended up in Apolda, a small manufacturing town near Jena in Thüringia, which was administered as part of the Soviet occupation zone till October 1949, and which was where the children grew up. Their mother worked in a pastoral capacity for Moritz Mitzenheim, the local bishop who had extensive administrative responsibilities for the Lutheran church in the region. Mrs Ekardt was a pious woman. As Gisela would later recall, "She accepted us [her daughters] as we were, without preconceptions.  Of the 200 Marks that she received each month, she tithed a tenth for those who had even less than we did.   For me she did not even have the 35 pfennigs necessary for a piece of fish in a bread-roll.  That bothered me, but I never asked her to save the money she gave to the others people".

Die Pfarrerstochter und gelernte Industrieuhrenmacherin[1] studierte an der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig Germanistik und Romanistik und wurde dort 1975 mit der Arbeit Zu Problemen der ästhetischen Theorie der ‚Kritischen Theorie‘ der Frankfurter Schule über Max Horkheimer und Theodor W. Adorno promoviert.