Karina Urbach

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Karina Urbach (* 1968 in Düsseldorf ) is a German historian and author . Urbach specializes in German and British cultural and political relations in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of international relations and the history of the secret service.

Life

Urbach was born in Düsseldorf in 1968 and first grew up in the Gerresheim district . Her mother was the film actress Wera Frydtberg (1926-2008), her father was Otto R. Urbach (1913-1976), a Viennese Jew who traveled to the United States as a student in 1935 and after the Second World War as an intelligence officer for the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) returned to Germany. Otto Urbach later lived in Düsseldorf. His cover legend was an engineer at the US technology group "Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company GmbH" (later 3M ) in Neuss, while he worked for the US secret services - he was able to uncover SS networks that continued after the World War. After the death of their father, Urbach and her mother moved to Munich, where they studied history , political science and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich until 1992 . In 1994 she was a Kurt Hahn Scholar in Cambridge . There she received her doctorate in 1996. She then worked as a research assistant at the University of Bayreuth and at the German Historical Institute in London . She completed her habilitation in 2009. Since that year she has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Historical Research at the University of London and since 2015 a long-term visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (New Jersey). She is married to a British historian (specialty: Russia) and has one son.

In 2015, her study Go-Betweens for Hitler (German: Hitler's secret helpers. The nobility in the service of power ) about the German - and British - aristocrats during the National Socialist era , which Adolf Hitler used as secret liaison to the European Elite behind the scenes to advertise and negotiate for him. For example Carl Eduard, Duke of Coburg , who was a grandson of Queen Victoria and a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA). Or Stéphanie zu Hohenlohe , who, prior to the Munich Agreement, conducted direct negotiations in Hitler's name with the British Foreign Minister, Lord Halifax . It shed light on Edward VIII's connections with Hitler and his plans for an alliance against the Soviet Union . In the same year she advised the British daily The Sun when it published family film recordings from 1933 or 1934, on which the then seven-year-old Queen Elizabeth II could be seen together with her mother and her uncle, who later became King Edward VIII. who shows the Hitler salute - Urbach saw it as a political gesture. The short cinematic is a rare indication of how to the right the royal family stood. Especially the role of King George VI. and his wife , Elisabeth's parents, are still controversial, as they did not oppose Hitler until the war broke out in 1939. The suspicion that the royals were deliberately trying to disguise any connection between the British royal family and the Nazi regime by withholding documents led historians at the time to demand an opening of the royal archives, which contained extensive correspondence between members of the royal family and the NSDAP Politicians as well as German aristocrats included. Since then, Urbach has been committed to opening the archives of the British royal family.

Urbach is also used as an expert when the royals stage themselves in a media-effective manner at weddings and the like, and was involved in BBC documentaries about the Victorian era .

Under the pseudonym Hannah Coler , she published the novel Cambridge 5 - Time of Traitors in 2017 , in which she processed the events of the spy ring of the same name . Urbach was nominated for the Friedrich-Glauser-Preis 2018 and the Viktor Crime Award in the category “Debut detective novel” and received the Crime Cologne Award 2018. Urbach was awarded the Bavarian Habilitation Award and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Otto -von-Bismarck Foundation .

Works (selection)

  • Bismarck's Favorite Englishman. Lord Odo Russell's Mission to Berlin , Tauris, London and New York, 2000, ISBN 978-1-86064-438-2 .
  • European Aristocracies and the Radical Right in the Interwar Period (Ed.), Oxford University Press 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-923173-7 .
  • Royal Kinship. British and German Family Networks 1815-1914 (Ed.), Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-23003-5 .
  • with Brendan Simms (ed.): Bringing Personality back in: Leadership and War. A British-German Comparison 1740-1945, de Gruyter 2010, ISBN 3-110-23294-4 .
  • with Jonathan Haslam (ed.): Secret Intelligence in the European States System, 1918-1989 . Stanford University Press, 2013.
  • Go Betweens for Hitler , Oxford University Press 2015, ISBN 978-0198703662 German edition: Hitler's secret helpers. The nobility in the service of power , WBG Darmstadt 2016 ISBN 3-8062-3383-7 .
  • with Ulrich Lappenküper (ed.): Realpolitik for Europe: Bismarcks Weg, Schöningh 2016. ISBN 978-3-506-78526-8
  • Queen Victoria , The Indomitable Queen, CH Beck, first edition. 2011, exp. Edition 2018.
  • with Franz Bosbach, John Davis (eds.): Common Heritage, Documents and Sources concerning German-British Relations in the Archives and Collections of Windsor and Coburg, Volume I, 2015, ISBN 978-3-428-14416-7 , Volume II , 2018 , ISBN 978-3-428-15190-5 .
  • as Hannah Coler: Cambridge 5 - Time of Traitors , Limes 2017, ISBN 978-3-8090-2682-2 .
  • The book of Alice . How the Nazis stole my grandmother's cookbook, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-549-10008-0 [1]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the Book Talk: Historian Karina Urbach in an interview about CAMBRIDGE 5 , 1 May 2019
  2. ↑ Interview on Bayern 2
  3. ↑ Karina Urbach. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Karina Urbach. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Key to Nothing , portrait in the Rheinische Post
  6. ^ New book: Hitler's secret helpers were aristocratic. In: welt.de . September 15, 2016, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Go-Betweens for Hitler - Karina Urbach , YouTube channel from the Institute for Advanced Study , January 25, 2016
  8. ↑ Queen 'Nazi salute' footage could have been inadvertently released by Palace
  9. ↑ The Windsors and the Hitler Salute - "This is a political gesture"
  10. ^ Royals told: open archives on family ties to the Nazi regime
  11. ↑ http://karinaurbach.org.uk/
  12. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  13. ↑ A German invented the hype about royal weddings
  14. ↑ http://www.die-criminale.de/krimipreise/krimipreise-der-autoren.html
  15. ↑ Viktor Crime Award 2018: Jury nominates 10 authors for the longlist - Mord am Hellweg - Europe's largest international crime festival. Archived from the original on October 13, 2018 ; accessed on January 9, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Crime Cologne Award 2018 / Hannah Coler wins with "Cambridge 5". Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Hannah Naumann: Hannah Coler wins Crime Cologne Award 2018. In: Crime Cologne. October 5, 2018, accessed on January 9, 2019 (German).
  18. ↑ Karina Urbach Wins Crime Cologne Award 2018. Accessed on January 9, 2019 .
  19. ↑ "Crime Cologne Award 2018" goes to Hannah Coler. In: BuchMarkt. October 1, 2018, accessed January 9, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Karina Urbach. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
  21. ^ Committees of the Otto von Bismarck Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Urbach, Karina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coler, Hannah (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf