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 ( or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor ...

official

Albert Speer Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (; ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production, Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of W ...

(1905–1981). Margret was named after her mother. She lived in

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until the end of the war. After the imprisonment of her father, the family moved to

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; ; ) is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fifth-largest city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with a population of about 163,000, of which roughly a quarter consists of studen ...

. She studied

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (; ), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is Germany's oldest unive ...

. On 14 April 1962, she married the archaeologist Hans Nissen, and she took his family name. Together, they lived in

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in the

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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

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. As a photographer of

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, 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.

References

External links

Gypsum and coal - Photographies by Margret Nissen

1938 births Living people Photographers from Bavaria German women photographers Speer family {{Germany-photographer-stub