Marcelle Georgine Kellermann (c.1919 – 6 June 2015)[1] was a French writer and teacher, and a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War.

Kellermann was born in Paris and was studying at the University of Clermont-Ferrand when she left her studies to join the Resistance in 1942. She married Ernst Kellermann (also known as Walter Kellermann) (1915–2012),[2] a German Jew whom she met in Paris.[3] Walter became an academic in the UK, where the couple made their home. They had a son and two daughters, one of whom is the actress Barbara Kellerman.

Marcelle Kellermann became a teacher of modern languages in Leeds and at Bingley College of Education in Yorkshire.[4] Her articles on the subject of language teaching included "Two experiments on language teaching in primary schools in Leeds", published by the Nuffield Foundation in 1964.[5] Her monograph in Pergamon Press's Language Teaching Methodology series, The Forgotten Third Skill: Reading a Foreign Language, was published in 1981.[6] She was said to have "pioneered the teaching of French to primary school children".[7]

Later, the couple retired to London, and she wrote a book about her wartime experiences, A Packhorse Called Rachel, published in 2007 by Grosvenor House. The Interpreter, published by CreateSpace in 2014, resulted from her research into the activities of a Nazi officer, "Frank von Heugen", who used his language skills to become an Allied informer.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Illtyd Harrington (23 June 2015). "ILLTYD HARRINGTON: To the leaders – get the catwalk over". Camden New Journal. Archived from the original on 30 March 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  2. ↑ Alan Watson (11 December 2012). "Walter Kellermann obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  3. ↑ Josh Pettitt (25 November 2012). "Trail-blazing scientist who discovered sub atomic particles dies". Ham&High. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  4. ↑ The Education Authorities Directory ... Office of "The School Government Chronicle and Education Authorities Gazette". 1971.
  5. ↑ Aspects of Education: Journal of the Institute of Education, the University of Hull. The Institute. 1965.
  6. ↑ Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1983). Journal of the Indian Institute of Science. Indian Institute of Science.
  7. ↑ The Publisher. 1964.
  8. ↑ Kellermann Marcelle (8 August 2012). The Interpreter. M-Y Books. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-1-906658-19-9.


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