Melissa Müller

This article is about the journalist and writer Melissa Müller. For the pole vaulter, see Melissa Mueller .

Melissa Müller (* 1967 in Vienna ) is an Austrian freelance journalist and writer .

Life

Melissa Müller first studied German and business administration . She then worked for various business newsrooms and magazines in Vienna and Munich.

In the mid-1990s she decided to write a biography about Anne Frank and to fill the historical gaps in Anne Frank's diary through research. She interviewed historians, archives, contemporary witnesses, traveled a. a. to Israel and the USA . The book Das Mädchen Anne Frank , with which Melissa Müller attracted international attention, was published in 1998 and has been translated into more than 20 languages. Three years later, the film adaptation of Anne Frank appeared with Ben Kingsley and Hannah Taylor-Gordon in the leading roles. The film won an Emmy Award. In 2012, Müller worked in Katharina Hoier's documentary The Diary of Anne Frank - The Story of Treason .

While researching a follow-up project about artists under National Socialism , Müller met Traudl Junge . Originally, the author wanted to ask Adolf Hitler's secretary about the “Fuehrer's” taste in art. However, the biography Up to the Last Hour emerged from the conversations . Hitler's secretary tells her life. The book stayed on the bestseller lists for about a year, was translated into 25 languages, and served as one of the foundations for the 2004 Oscar-nominated film The Downfall , which also features two scenes from the interview In the Blind Spot - Hitler's Secretary contains.

Melissa Müller lives with her family in Munich.

Works

• The little kings of the world of goods. Children in the sights of advertising. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-593-35679-1 .
• The girl Anne Frank . Biography. with an afterword by Miep Gies . Claassen, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-546-00151-6 . New edition expanded to include unknown material: Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-18902-1 .
• with Monika Czernin : Picasso's hairdresser. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-462-02980-0 .
• Until the last hour. Hitler's secretary tells her life. Claassen, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-546-00311-X .
• with Reinhard Piechocki: Alice Herz-Sommer - “A Garden of Eden in the middle of Hell.” A century of life. Droemer, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-426-27389-6 .
• with Monika Tatzkow and others: Lost pictures, lost lives - Jewish collectors and what became of their works of art. Elisabeth-Sandmann, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-938045-30-5 .

As editor

• Two tracks in the snow. Brandstätter, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85447-499-7 .
• The paradise on earth. Brandstätter, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85447-538-1 .
• To the nineteenth hole. Brandstätter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85447-559-4 .
• From the blue haze. Brandstätter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85447-560-8 .
• Kindly please! Brandstätter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85447-561-6 .
• Fancy a second book. Brandstätter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85447-581-0 .
• Up up and away! Brandstätter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85447-594-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Melissa Müller in the catalog of the German National Library