The Mystery of Ingrid Pitt

  THE MYSTERY OF INGRID PITT Four stories: 1. the one she tells in her memoir, Life’s a Scream (1999) 2. the one that emerges from documents 3. the media story – press articles from the 1960s on–how she self-fashioned herself and how the media portrayed her 4. the one in between, of questions, doubts, and research Connecting and radically rewriting the history of two seemingly completely unrelated historical figures: a cult British horror actress/author and a German engineer/athlete with a unique record. His story completes hers, and vice versa. There is Big History in the background. What is true in her autobiographical account, and what did she make up? And why? In her 60s, with a distinguished career behind her, she didn’t need to prove anything to anyone. Was she really born, her parents on the run from the Nazis, at the back of the train station in Częstochowa, Poland? Did she really spend three years in the Stutthof concentration camp? Was her father really a...