Anna Maria Sigmund

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Anna Maria Sigmund (born May 22, 1955 in Waidhofen an der Thaya ) is an Austrian historian and author. She became known for books on the ideologies of the Nazi era.

Life

Sigmund was born as the daughter of a civil servant in Waidhofen an der Thaya . After graduating from high school, she trained as a primary school teacher in Vienna and started teaching. From 1977 she also began studying history and art history at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna with study visits to Marseille and Berkeley . In 1982 she received her doctorate. She has been working as a freelance science journalist and historian since 1985.

She has been married to Karl Sigmund , Professor of Mathematics at the University of Vienna, since 1974 , has a son and lives in Vienna.

Sigmund became known for books on the ideologies of the Nazi era. Several of her books have been translated into numerous languages, including Hebrew, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Hungarian and others

Awards

Works

  • The House of Habsburg - Habsburg houses. Living and living of a dynasty . Ueberreuter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-8000-3581-2 .
  • The women of the Nazis. Volume 1. Non-fiction book. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-8000-3699-1 .
  • Franz Joseph's lost diaries. Böhlau, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-205-99117-6 .
  • Everything was beautiful in Vienna . Heyne, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-15143-7 .
  • The women of the Nazis. Volume 2. Non-fiction book. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-8000-3777-7 .
  • The women of the Nazis. Volume 3. Heyne, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-453-86152-3 .
  • The leader's best friend. Adolf Hitler, his niece Geli Raubal and the "Ehrenarian" Emil Maurice - a love triangle. Heyne, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-453-62001-1 .
  • Dictator, demon, demagogue. Questions and answers about Adolf Hitler . dtv, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-423-24523-9 .
  • “We determine sex life.” Sexuality in the Third Reich. Heyne, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-13728-8 .
  • Corpse roulette. Detective novel . Diana-Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-35575-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography at Lyrikwelt.de, archive version from July 1, 2017, accessed on November 2, 2019
  2. ↑ Homepage Anna Maria Sigmund , accessed on November 2, 2019
  3. ↑ cf. Literature by and about Anna Maria Sigmund in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Sigmund, Anna Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Waidhofen an der Thaya