Ina Seidel's reputation has been shadowed by her enthusiastic support of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
15 Facts About Ina Seidel
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Ina Seidel has maintained some relevance in German popular culture despite a dramatic post-1945 decline in popularity.
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Johanna Mathilde "Ina" Seidel was born in Halle, to Hermann Seidel and Emmy Loesevitz, the eldest of her parents' three children.
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Ina Seidel's father, Seidel was a senior surgeon at the city's main hospital.
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Ina Seidel's uncle, Heinrich Seidel, was an engineer and a poet-novelist.
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In 1907 Ina Seidel married her cousin, the evangelical minister and author Heinrich Wolfgang Seidel.
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Ina Seidel later built a career as a reporter, critic and essayist using the pseudonyms "Christian Ferber" and "Simon Glas".
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Between 1914 and 1933 Ina Seidel published five volumes of lyric poetry.
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In Das Labyrinth Ina Seidel told the life story of Georg Forster.
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On 29 January 1932 Ina Seidel was admitted to membership of the Prussian Academy of Arts.
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Ina Seidel was only the second woman to receive this honour.
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Ina Seidel was one of many who demonstrated support for National Socialist ideology.
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Postwar, Ina Seidel immediately resigned her membership of the Prussian Academy of Arts.
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Ina Seidel faced strong criticism because of her record of strong public support for the Hitler government.
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In 1955 Ina Seidel was admitted to membership of the western Academy of Arts in West Berlin.