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Melissa Müller Born 1967
Vienna, AustriaOccupation Writer and journalist Nationality Austrian Subjects Biography Melissa Müller (born 1967, Vienna) is an Austrian journalist and author.
After working as an au pair for some time in London, Müller decided first for a study of the management economics and German Studies, afterwards she worked for different restaurant editorships and magazines.
In the mid-1990s she decided to write the book Anne Frank: The Biography and to research the historical gaps in The Diary of the Anne Frank.[1] In 2001, the movie Anne Frank: The Whole Story, based on Müller's book, premiered on ABC.
While researching for a subsequent project about artists in the Third Reich, she became acquainted with Traudl Junge, the meeting developing into the biographical memoir Until the Final Hour. It describes Junge's life as one of Hitler's secretaries, and was a major source for the movie Downfall.
References
- ^ Kakutani, Michiko (29 September 1998). "When a Spirited Teen-Ager Faced the Unimaginable". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/27/daily/frank-book-review.html?_r=5. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
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Categories:- 1967 births
- Living people
- Austrian journalists
- Austrian writers
- People from Vienna
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