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Margret Nissen (born Margarete Speer; 19 June 1938) is a German photographer. She is a daughter of the German architect and high-ranked
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Margret Nissen (born Margarete Speer; 19 June 1938) is a German photographer. She is a daughter of the German architect and high-ranked Nazi Party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...
official Albert Speer
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (; ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he ...
(1905–1981).
Margret was named after her mother. She lived in Obersalzberg
Obersalzberg is a mountainside retreat situated above the market town of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, Germany. Located about south-east of Munich, close to the border with Austria, it is best known as the site of Adolf Hitler's former mountain resi ...
until the end of the war. After the imprisonment of her father, the family moved to Heidelberg
Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
. She studied archaeology
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at the university
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in Heidelberg. On 14 April 1962, she married the archaeologist Hans Nissen, and she took his family name. Together, they lived in Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
, Iraq, from 1965 to 1967, and later lived in Chicago and Berlin. Nissen set out to become a photographer, and was mainly self-taught. Since 1980, her work has primarily been shown at exhibitions in Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
. As a photographer of architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...
, she has worked at the Berlin exhibition "Topographie des Terrors". She published a book about her father, ''Sind Sie die Tochter Speer?'', in 2004.
Literature
*Margret Speer: ''Sind Sie die Tochter Speer?'' Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, München 2004.External links
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1938 births Living people Photographers from Bavaria German women photographers {{Germany-photographer-stub