Dr Karina Urbach is a German/British historian and novelist. She has taught at British and German Universities and from 2015-2020 was a member of Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study. She continues as a senior research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research at London University.
Karina has worked on numerous BBC, PBS and ZDF documentaries.
Her non-fiction includes Go-Betweens for Hitler which was selected by History Today as one of the best books of 2015; Bismarck’s Favourite Englishman; Queen Victoria and Alice’s Book: How the Nazis stole my grandmother’s cookbook which was a Spectator and Prospect magazine of the book of the year 2022. It was turned into an award-winning TV documentary.
Her first German novel Cambridge 5: Zeit der Verräter won the 2018 Crime Cologne Award. Her second espionage novel Das Haus am Gordon Place (Vienna ’48) won the German Crime Award 2024.