Monika Bittl
Monika Bittl | |
|---|---|
 Monika in 2018 | |
| Born | 9 January 1963 Germany |
| Died | 28 October 2022 (aged 59) Beilngries, Germany |
| Occupations | Writer, journalist, screenwriter, lecturer |
Monika Bittl (9 January 1963 – 28 October 2022) was a German writer, journalist, screenwriter and lecturer of creative writing.
Life
Monika Bittl completed a daily newspaper traineeship from 1982 to 1984, lived in Sicily for two years[1] and studied German and psychology at LMU Munich from 1986 to 1992, graduating with a Magister Artium. In 1993/94, she received a scholarship from the Munich Film Academy (HFF) (screenplay workshop); From 1993, she lived as a freelance author in Munich. In 2011, she was named Munich Tower Writer.[2] In 2014, she was the first woman to be elected "Author of Freedom" by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. As an "enormously versatile author" (Süddeutsche Zeitung), Bittl worked very successfully in various fields: She wrote screenplays, narrative non-fiction, novels, essays, journalistic articles and taught creative writing at the HFF Munich and at the "Jugend Film Fernsehen" institute.[3]
As a screenwriter, she specialized in Bavarian material and topics. In her first five novels, she often described historical women. In the narrative non-fiction, she created tragicomic inventories of the reality of women's lives today. She also worked as a journalist, among others for the Süddeutsche Zeitung[4] and the Focus.[5] Until 2016 she wrote essays[6] among others for NovoArgumente.
In September 2018, Bittl released You have to be able to let go sometimes, a British black comedy that was highly praised and described by the Buchjournal as "fast-paced, clever and hilarious".[7]
I remembered myself as younger - reading botox for women over 40 was number one on the Spiegel bestseller list paperback for 27 weeks in 2016. It was on the Spiegel bestseller list for a total of two years[8] and thus became a German mega-bestseller.[9] It has been translated into Chinese, Russian and Dutch, among other languages. I want to stay as I was - happiness push-up for women over 40[10] entered the Spiegel Paperback bestseller list in 2017 three days after its release and also became a bestseller. The follow-up titles Without my husband I would be happily married - reading wellness for women with attachments and Women never lie and don't live to 39 at the most - down-aging for beginners also entered the Spiegel non-fiction bestseller list shortly after their publication in August 2018 and December 2019.[11] Bittl's novels You have to be able to let go sometimes and You should clean out more often also reached the Spiegel bestseller list shortly after their publication.[12][13]
Since I remembered myself younger, a chicken has been depicted on every cover.
Bittl was married. She died at the end of October 2022 at the age of 59 and left behind a son.
References
- ↑ "Monika Bittl — Life". Archived from the original on 2016-03-29. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung (28 October 2015). "The ideas fly to her" (in German). Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ↑ "The child optimizers". A guest article by Monika Bittl. 2013-08-02. ISSN 0174-4917. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ↑ FOCUS Online. Parents, relax!. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ↑ Monika Bittl. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ↑ "Different than planned" (in German). Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ↑ SPIEGEL bestseller: LITERATUR SPIEGEL paperback bestseller list. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
{{cite book}}:|newspaper=ignored (help) - ↑ "I remembered myself as younger – buchreport" (in German). Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ↑ "I want to stay as I was - buchreport" (in German). Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ↑ "SPIEGEL bestseller: LITERATUR SPIEGEL paperback bestseller list". Der Spiegel. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ↑ Paperback – buchreport. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ↑ DERSPIEGEL (25 March 2015). "SPIEGEL-Bestseller: Paperback Fiction". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 23 August 2024.