Katrin Himmler
Katrin Himmler (* 1967 in Dinslaken ) is a German political scientist and author . At least since working on her book Die Brüder Himmler , published in 2005 . A German family history , she deals scientifically with the activities of her great-uncle, the Reichsführer SS and organizer of the Holocaust and Porajmos , Heinrich Himmler , before and during the Nazi era .
Life
Katrin Himmler grew up in Spain and southern Germany , studied political science and dealt with the topics of racism and interculturality . She lives in Berlin with her son .
Her grandfather was Ernst Himmler , one of Heinrich Himmler's two brothers, by marriage to Richard Wendler .
In 2005 she published the book The Brothers Himmler. A German family story in which she dealt with Ernst and Gebhard Himmler , the two brothers of the Reichsführer SS . In it she questioned the prevailing view that the two brothers were apolitical technocrats .
Katrin Himmler is a protagonist of the 2011 documentary My Family, the Nazis and I ("Hitler's Children") by the Israeli director Chanoch Ze'evi about the descendants of the Nazi perpetrators.
In 2014, together with the historian Michael Wildt , she published the book Himmler privat - Letters of a Mass Murderer at Piper Verlag , in which Heinrich Himmler's newly discovered letters to his wife Margarete (1893–1967) from the years 1927–1933 and 1940–1945, supplemented by letters and the diaries of Margarete and their daughter Gudrun (1929–2018) have been published. The documentary Heinrich Himmler, which was presented for the first time at the Berlinale in 2014, was also made with the assistance of Himmler and Wildt . The decent one ("The Decent One") by the director Vanessa Lapa, which among other things has these letters as a basis.
Fonts
- The Himmler brothers. A German family story. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-10-033629-1 . (Paperback edition 2007 in the Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16686-2 ).
- with Michael Wildt : Himmler private - Letters of a mass murderer , Piper Verlag, 2014, 400 pages, ISBN 978-3-492-05632-8 .
Web links
- Katrin Himmler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Katrin Himmler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website by Katrin Himmler
- Review notes on The Himmler Brothers at perlentaucher.de
- Dorion Weickmann: Lost Illusions: Richard von Schirach and Katrin Himmler destroy the legends of their families. In: The time . November 10, 2005, accessed June 17, 2006.
- Jan Brinkhus: Book review The Himmler Brothers. ( Memento from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . November 14, 2005.
- Lavinia Kleßmann: The horror of one's own history. In: Der Spiegel . July 23, 2008, accessed July 23, 2008.
Individual evidence
- ↑ My family, the Nazis and I ( Memento from July 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (see website Das Erste from June 13, 2012)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Himmler, Katrin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political scientist and author, Heinrich Himmler's great niece |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dinslaken |