Heike Specht

Heike Specht (* 1974 ) is a German author . She is known as the author of several biographies .

Life

Specht was born in 1974 and studied history and German in Erlangen and Munich . In 2014 Specht completed his doctorate with a thesis on the history of the Jewish Feuchtwanger family , of which Lion Feuchtwanger was the best-known member . The work was awarded the University Prize of the City of Munich . She worked as a publishing editor at Random House in Munich for eight years before settling in Zurich as a literary agent and freelance writer .

Your side of history - Germany and its first ladies from 1949 to today , Piper, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-492-05819-3
Curd Jürgens : General and Gentleman , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-351-03601-0
Lilli Palmer . The Prussian Diva: Die Biographie , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-351-03567-9
Why Shabbat already begins on Friday: the children's university travels to the world of Judaism , Dt. Verl.-Anst., Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-05948-2
The Feuchtwangers: Family, Tradition and Jewish Self-Image in the German-Jewish Middle Class of the 19th and 20th Centuries , Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0017-0