Gabriele Munk was born and raised in Stuttgart. Her desire to shape the environment arose from observing anonymous new construction areas in the 1970s. After graduating from the Elly-Heuss-Gymnasium, this led her to study architecture at the University of Stuttgart, where her passion for urban planning also developed.
As a freelancer, she advised municipalities on urban renewal for eight years. From 1991, she headed a redevelopment department at the city of Stuttgart, and since 2000 she has been deputy head of the planning office in Leinfelden-Echterdingen.
In the 1990s, she and 27 other people founded a building community in the Heusteigviertel. There, a building project was created with 28 residential units with a combined heat and power plant, rainwater utilization and three social housing units. After exciting years in the south of Stuttgart, including six years as a district councilor for the Green Party, her husband and she moved to Weilimdorf in 2003.
In addition to her political commitment as a city councilor, Gabriele Munk is active as deputy chairwoman of the Förderverein Zentrum selbstbestimmt Leben (ZsL) of the Aktive Behinderten Stuttgart (Active Disabled People Stuttgart) and also contributes her positive nature here.