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Karina Urbach

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Dr. habil.
Karina Urbach
Born
Karina Urbach
NationalityGerman
Education
Occupation(s)Historian, researcher, professor
EmployerUniversity of London
TitleSenior Research Fellow
MotherWera Frydtberg
Awards
Websitewww.karinaurbach.org.uk
Karina Urbach
bibliography
Books↙8
Articles↙27
Interviews↙2
Books edited↙7
References and footnotes

Karina Urbach is a German historian with a special interest in the Nazi period (1933–45).[1] She has written several books on 19th and 20th century European political and cultural history.[2]

Urbach is currently researching American intelligence operations against the National Socialists in wartime and postwar.[3]

Education and career

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Urbach was a Kurt Hahn Scholar at the University of Cambridge where she took her MPhil in International Relations (1992) and her PhD in history (1996). For her German Habilitation she was awarded the Bavarian Ministry of Culture prize. She taught at the University of Bayreuth, was a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute London (2004-2009) and thereafter at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.[3]

Urbach is a board member of the Otto-von-Bismarck Foundation.[4] In 2015 she became a long term visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study,[3] Princeton, New Jersey.

In 2015 Urbach took part in uncovering a 1934 film clip of a young princess Elizabeth making the Nazi salute.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] She has since then been campaigning with The Times and The Guardian for the release of Interwar period material from the royal archives.[13][14] In 2020 she published Das Buch Alice (Alice's Book). The story of her grandmother Alice Urbach, a Jewish chef in Vienna whose bestselling cookbook was expropriated by the Nazis. Karina Urbach discovered that Alice was not the only Jewish author who had been replaced by an ‘Aryan’ stooge. Alice never saw her book published again under her name, but in 2020 the German magazine Der Spiegel ran a story about the findings of Alice's Book. As a consequence, Alice's publishing house issued a reprint.[15][16][17][18][19] The English language version of Alice's Book appeared in May 2022, published by MacLehose Press and translated by Jamie Bulloch.

Urbach has worked as historical adviser on many BBC, PBS and German TV documentaries.[20][21][22] She has contributed articles to the Wall Street Journal,[23] The Guardian,[24] The Literary Review,[25] Die Zeit,[26] Die Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ)[27] and Die Tageszeitung (TAZ).[28]

In 2017 Urbach published the historical novel Cambridge 5 under the pseudonym Hannah Coler.[29][30][31][32][33] It was shortlisted for the Friedrich Glauser prize and won the Crime Cologne Award in 2018.[34][35][36][37][38]

Urbach is the daughter of the actress Wera Frydtberg.

Bibliography

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Monographs

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  • Alice's Book: How the Nazis stole my grandmother's cookbook, London 2022, ISBN 978-1529416305 [39]
  • Das Buch Alice. Wie die Nazis das Kochbuch meiner Großmutter raubten, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3549100080 [40]
  • Go Betweens for Hitler, Oxford University Press, 2015 [41][42]
  • German translation: Hitlers heimliche Helfer, Darmstadt, 2016 [43]
  • Queen Victoria, A Biography, C.H. Beck, Munich 2011 (third edition 2014) [44]
  • Bismarck's Favourite Englishman. Lord Odo Russell's Mission to Berlin, Tauris Academic Press, London and New York, 1999 [45]

Edited books

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  • with Ulrich Lappenküper (eds.), Realpolitik für Europa: Bismarcks Weg, Paderborn, 2016
  • with Franz Bosbach, John Davis (eds.), Common Heritage, Documents and Sources concerning German-British Relations in the Archives and Collections of Windsor and Coburg, Vol. I, 2015 , Vol. II, 2017 [46]
  • with Jonathan Haslam (eds.), Secret Intelligence and the International Relations of Europe in the 20thC, Stanford University Press, 2013
  • with Brendan Simms (eds.), Bringing Personality back in: Leadership and War. A British-German Comparison 1740-1945, Munich, 2010
  • Royal Kinship. British and German Family Networks 1815-1914, Munich, 2008
  • European Aristocracies and the Radical Right in the Interwar Period, Oxford University Press, 2007
  • with Franz Bosbach and Keith Robbins (eds.), Birth or Talent ? The Formation of Elites in a British-German Comparison, Munich, 2003

Fiction

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  • Cambridge 5, Limes/Random House 2017
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References

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  1. ^ Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) (2015-06-01), Go-Betweens for Hitler, retrieved 2017-11-16
  2. ^ "Dr Karina Urbach MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Cantab), Priv.Doz. (Habilitation)". www.history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  3. ^ a b c "Karina Urbach". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  4. ^ "Über uns". www.bismarck-stiftung.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  5. ^ Whitehead, Tom (2015-07-19). "Queen 'Nazi salute' footage could have been inadvertently released by Palace". Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  6. ^ Shammas, John (2015-07-17). "Queen Elizabeth filmed performing Nazi salute with uncle in 1933 footage". Mirror. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  7. ^ Contrera, Jessica. "After controversial Queen Elizabeth II video, should royal records be public records?". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  8. ^ Laura Smith-Spark; Radina Gigova. "Young Elizabeth's Nazi salute: The Sun sparks furor". CNN. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  9. ^ "Buckingham Palace Might Have Accidentally Released Elizabeth Nazi Salute Footage". International Business Times. 2015-07-19. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  10. ^ Low, Camila Ruz and Harry (2015-07-20). "What is the context of the royal 'Nazi salute' film?". BBC News. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  11. ^ "British archives hiding royal family's links to anti-Semitism in 1930s, says historian". Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  12. ^ Grose, Thomas K. "What Secrets Are the Royal Family Hiding?".
  13. ^ "Peeping through the chinks in the royal armour". Talking Humanities. 2015-08-06. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  14. ^ Urbach, Karina (2015-07-18). "Only with the Blitz did the royal family give up on peace with Hitler". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  15. ^ Schnurr, Eva-Maria. "Wie Nazis einer Jüdin ihren Kochbuch-Bestseller raubten". www.spiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  16. ^ "How the Nazis stole a cookbook". Deutsche Welle. 2020-02-11. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  17. ^ Austria, Sara Tor. "Family's fight for cookbook 'Aryanised' by the Nazis". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  18. ^ "Alice Urbach's Stolen Cookbook". Metropole. 2020-11-17. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  19. ^ "How the Nazis robbed Alice Urbach of her cookbook". The Forward. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  20. ^ Urbach, Karina. "Dr. Karina Urbach: Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications". karinaurbach.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  21. ^ "Karina Urbach". IMDb. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  22. ^ "Die Windsors" (in German). Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  23. ^ "Karina Urbach". Wall Street Journal. 2015-09-25. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  24. ^ "Karina Urbach". the Guardian. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  25. ^ "Literary Review - For People Who Devour Books". Literary Review. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  26. ^ "Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder im PUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl". www.zeit.de. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  27. ^ Urbach, Karina. "Herzog von Edinburgh: Der letzte der idealen Gatten". faz.net (in German). ISSN 0174-4909. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  28. ^ Urbach, Karina (2021-04-11). "Tagebücher von Chips Channon: Blick in den Abgrund". Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). ISSN 0931-9085. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  29. ^ "Hannah Coler". www.randomhouse.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  30. ^ "Hannah Coler: "Cambridge 5 - Zeit der Verräter" - Spionage-Legende Philby ist nicht der Letzte". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  31. ^ "Karina Urbach, Historikerin" (in German). 2017-12-31. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  32. ^ "Hannah Coler: Cambridge 5. Zeit der Verräter - CulturMag". CulturMag (in German). 2017-11-15. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  33. ^ "Hannah Coler ist das Pseudonym der deutschen Historikerin Karina Urbach - Foto". Focus Online (in German). Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  34. ^ Buranaseda, Nadine. "Debütroman - Das Syndikat - Autorengruppe deutschsprachige Kriminalliteratur". www.das-syndikat.com (in German). Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  35. ^ "Crime Cologne Award 2018 / Hannah Coler gewinnt mit "Cambridge 5"". www.boersenblatt.net (in German). Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  36. ^ Naumann, Hannah (2018-10-05). "Hannah Coler gewinnt Crime Cologne Award 2018". Crime Cologne (in German). Archived from the original on 2018-12-28. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  37. ^ ""Crime Cologne Award 2018" geht an Hannah Coler". BuchMarkt (in German). 2018-10-01. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  38. ^ "Viktor Crime Award 2018: Jury nominiert 10 AutorInnen für die Longlist - Mord am Hellweg - Europas größtes internationales Krimifestival". www.mordamhellweg.de. Archived from the original on 2018-10-13. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  39. ^ "Alice's Book". www.foyles.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  40. ^ "Dr. Karina Urbach: Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications". karinaurbach.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  41. ^ Evans, Richard J. (2016-03-17). "Lobbying". London Review of Books. pp. 35–38. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  42. ^ "What is the evidence that King Edward VIII was a Nazi sympathiser? - OpenLearn - Open University". www.open.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  43. ^ "Geheimemissäre Hitlers: Jenseits der Yellow Press". faz.net. 2016-01-18. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  44. ^ Detlev, Mares. "Rezension zu: K. Urbach: Queen Victoria". H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften (in German). Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  45. ^ "Bismarck's Favourite Englishman: Lord Odo Russell's Mission to Berlin". www.history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  46. ^ Haslam, Jonathan; Urbach, Karina (eds.). "Secret Intelligence in the European States System, 1918-1989". www.sup.org. Stanford University Press. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
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