Melissa Müller

Before she became known as a biographer and screenwriter, Melissa Müller headed the media and new media section of German Forbes magazine. Her books, focusing on victims and perpetrators of the Third Reich, are international bestsellers, available in more than 25 languages. Anne Frank (Das Mädchen Anne Frank) was unanimously hailed as a “landmark biography” and an “invaluable complement to an immortal testimony”, its film adaptation won several Emmy Awards. Until the Final Hour. Hitler’s Last Secretary was a number one Spiegel bestseller on the list for more than a year and served as template for Oscar-nominated Downfall.