Marianne Thamm is a South African journalist, author and stand-up comedian. She is the assistant editor of the ''

Daily Maverick ''Daily Maverick'' is a South African daily online publication and weekly print newspaper, with offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Its readership is spread across South Africa and the world, with approximately 8 million readers per month. I ...

'' and has written several books. In 2016 she released the memoir, ''Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and me''.Video – Between The Lines: Hitler, Verwoerd & Marianne Thamm
Daily Maverick. 27 September 2016

Background

Thamm was born in

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where her

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father had been a prisoner of war and met Thamm's mother, a Portuguese domestic worker. Thamm describes herself as a “half-Portuguese, half-German, recovering Roman Catholic atheist lesbian immigrant”. She lives in

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with her partner and two daughters.Past imperfect: Michele Magwood talks to Marianne Thamm about her ‘memoir of sorts’, Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela And Me
The Sunday Times. 17 October 2016

References

Living people 1961 births People from Gauteng People from Pretoria South African women journalists South African memoirists South African autobiographers South African non-fiction writers South African people of German descent South African people of Portuguese descent White South African people South African LGBT journalists South African atheists South African women comedians Former Roman Catholics Women memoirists South African women columnists {{SouthAfrica-journalist-stub