Her grandmother was, who had a two-year relationship with Amon Göth until the end of the Second World War, and with whom she had a daughter, , who was born in November 1945 and whom he never met.
Teege studied at the Sorbonne, and learned Hebrew in Israel where she studied for five years.
At the age of 38, Teege unexpectedly found out about her family history, by picking up a book in a Hamburg library that happened to be her mother Monika Hertwig's biography and where she discovered that Amon Göth was her grandfather, which caused her to plunge into a severe depression.
She decided to combat her depression and come to terms with this revelation by writing her book My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me.
Her book was a success and became a New York Times bestseller.
Translations of the book, which was originally published in Teege's native language, German, have been made into Danish, English, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
In 2021, Noa Berman-Herzberg, Teege's Israeli friend and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, partnered with Osi Wald to direct a local animated biographical short film titled Holy Holocaust.
Berman-Herzberg narrates the film, while German-Israeli actress Gabriela Börschmann voices Teege.
In Holy Holocaust, Berman-Herzberg narrates how her friendship with Teege was affected by the latter being Göth's granddaughter and the publication of My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me.
Holy Holocaust premiered on September 1, 2021, as a Jerusalem Film Festival entry.
In November 2022, The New Yorker uploaded Holy Holocaust on its website and official YouTube channel.
1970
Jennifer Teege (born 29 June 1970) is a German writer.
Her maternal grandfather was Austrian SS Nazi concentration camp commander and war criminal Amon Göth.
2015
Her 2015 book My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past was a New York Times bestseller.
Teege, who was born Jennifer Göth to a Nigerian father and an Austrian-German mother, grew up in foster care.
