Jennifer Teege

Jennifer Teege (born June 29, 1970 in Munich ) is a German writer and copywriter , co-author (with Nikola Sellmair) of the autobiography : Amon. My grandfather would have shot me .

Career

Jennifer Teege is a daughter of Monika Hertwig geb. Göth and granddaughter of the concentration camp commandant of the Płaszów concentration camp near Cracow Amon Göth (1908–1946) and his partner Ruth Irene Kalder (1918–1983). Kalder was the secretary of the manufacturer Oskar Schindler . Göth was executed as a war criminal in 1946.

In November 1945 Ruth Irene Kalder gave birth to Amon Göth's daughter Monika Kalder in Bad Tölz . In 1948 Ruth Irene Kalder applied for a name change to the name Göth. She gave an interview to BBC journalist Jon Blair on January 28, 1983 and died of suicide the next day .

Monika Göth gave birth to daughter Jennifer in 1970, who came from a brief relationship with a Nigerian student. Jennifer was adopted by a foster family in Munich- Waldtrudering at the age of seven .

Teege studied in Israel for five years . It was not until 2008, at the age of 38, 25 years after the death of her grandmother, that Jennifer learned about her parentage from an interview with Ruth Irene Göth. As a result, she got into a serious life crisis . Working on her biography helped her overcome the crisis. The book has also been published in Danish, English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Dutch, Polish and Spanish translations.

2019 it was included in the anthology New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby added.

Jennifer Teege is married and has two sons.

literature

• Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair: Amon. My grandfather would have shot me . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-06493-8 .
• Matthias Kessler, Monika Göth : I have to love my father, right? Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002 ISBN 978-3-8218-3914-1 .

Web links

• FAZ September 14, 2013
• Die Welt September 21, 2013
• ARD Planet Wissen October 26, 2015
• "Amon. My grandfather would have shot me" - Interview, THADEUSZ, RBB (video, 28 min.)
• Q&A with Jennifer Teege - Interview on C-SPAN (video, 58 min., English)
• "If something is there, you have to face it" Chrismon. The Protestant Magazine, 08.2018, pp. 29–31.