Ingeborg Prior

Ingeborg Prior (born 1939 ) is a German author of biographies and documentary fate stories.

Life

Ingeborg Prior grew up in a small town in Baden-Württemberg . In 1960 she moved to Cologne . After an internship at a daily newspaper, she first worked as a freelance journalist for print media and radio.

During her research for an article about people in the circus, she met the clown Peter Bento, who was married to the circus rider Irene Storms Bento, who was persecuted as a Jew during the Nazi regime . From numerous conversations with those affected, Prior reconstructed the story of the Jewish Lorch-Bento circus family, who survived the Holocaust in the Althoff circus . This resulted in the TV documentary Refuge in the Circus for WDR in 1995, directed by Micha Terjung, and in 1997 the novel The Clown and the Circus Rider . In 2003 the producer and director Mark Schlichter acquired the film rights to the book.

This was followed by a biography of the art historian Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers . In his review for the FAZ , Hans-Peter Riese criticized that Prior had missed a chance to portray Lissitzky-Küppers “in the context of art history and the history of their time”. Prior is co-author of the 2008 autobiographical family history of the Israeli composer Ella Milch-Sheriff Ein Lied für Meine Vater .

Publications

The clown and the circus rider. A love in dark time , novel, Piper Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-89029-196-3 .
The stolen images. The adventurous story of Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers and her art collection , Kiepenheuer and Witsch Verlag, Cologne 2002, ISBN 978-3-462-03084-6 . New edition 2015 by Zu Klampen Verlag under the title Sophie's Legacy. From Hanover to Siberia. The tragic story of the art collector Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers and her stolen pictures .
With Peter Detert: on the brink. When doctors, justice and society fail - my extreme life with borderline disease , Heyne Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-641-03249-4 (eBook)
Ella Milch-Sheriff / Ingeborg Prior: A song for my father , set up publishing group, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-351-02661-5