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Margret Nissen

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Margret Nissen (born 19 June 1938 as Margarete Speer) is a German photographer. She is the daughter of Albert Speer, who was a member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle and the Third Reich's chief architect. He served twenty years in prison for crimes against humanity after World War II.

Margret was named after her mother. She lived in Obersalzberg until the end of the war. After the imprisonment of her father the family moved to Heidelberg. She studied archeology at the university in Heidelberg. On 14 April 1962 she married the archeologist Hans Nissen and they lived a couple of years in Baghdad. Margret set out to become a mainly selftaught photographer. Since 1980 her work has primarily been shown at exhibitions in Berlin. As a photographer of architecture she has worked at the Berlin exhibition "Topographie des Terrors".


Literature

Margret Speer: Sind Sie die Tochter Speer? Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, München 2004. ISBN 342105844X