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3 unusual facts about Niklas Frank


Niklas Frank

Niklas Frank (born 9 March 1939) is a German author and journalist best known for writing a book which denounced his father Hans Frank (a German lawyer who was executed after being found guilty at the Nuremberg trials for his actions, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, arising from his involvement with the Nazi party and as Governor-General of occupied Poland during World War II).

Frank contributed as a writer to the 1967 film A Degree of Murder, and to the 1973 Tatort television series episode Weißblaue Turnschuhe.

1995 saw the first performance of a work commissioned for the Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival), Der Vater (The Father), by Frank and Joshua Sobol, directed by Paulus Manker at the Theater an der Wien.



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