Bianka Minte-King

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Bianka Minte-König signs a book at the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair

Bianka Minte-König (born July 28, 1947 in Berlin ) is a German writer and professor of literature, media and theater education .

Life

Born in Berlin as the daughter of a bookseller, Bianka Minte-König lives in Braunschweig - Riddagshausen and on the island of Mallorca . She is married and has two children, a daughter born in 1983 and a son born in 1990.

Minte-König studied literature, journalism and education at the Ruhr University in Bochum . She completed her studies in 1974 with a Magistra Artium (MA) in pedagogy with a thesis on children's television. In 1975 she received her doctorate in literary studies and its didactics .

After completing her studies, she initially worked as a research assistant at the Adolf Grimme Institute for Media Research of the German Adult Education Association (VHS Association), where she supervised two research projects of the VHS Association in cooperation with ZDF and NDR . During her time at the institute, she worked in scientific publications a. a. "With media and communication theory questions" and wrote "extensive lexicon and manual contributions". At the age of 28, she moved to the Braunschweig / Wolfenbüttel University of Applied Sciences in 1975 , where she has been teaching literature, media and theater education as a university teacher in the social affairs department since 1980 . It “deals with communication science issues in these teaching areas in theory, research and practice”. She also worked for three years as the university 's women's representative , for a long period as a member of the faculty council and for six years (1995–2001) as dean of her faculty. In her function as women's representative, she campaigned “especially for the promotion of girls in natural science and technology courses as well as for the appointment of women in technical fields”.

In Riddagshausen, an old barn was converted into a cultural center for children ( KinderMedienScheune ) under Minte-König's direction , which includes a gallery for children's and picture book illustrators ( KinderMedienGalerie ), a specialist and research library for picture books ( BraunschweigerBilderBuchArchiv ) and an institute for research and planning of children's media and for the mediation of readings by authors ( KinderMedienInstitut ). At the same time, Minte-König directed the children's theater Fabula for ten years and wrote plays for it. She has also organized writing workshops where women and girls could learn and try out autobiographical writing. The Braunschweig picture book exhibition and the Eulenspiegel picture book prize of the city ​​of Schöppenstedt also emerged “from their work and through their initiative” .

Literary career

Bianka Minte-König began writing books for children and young people in 1996 at the age of 49, some of which were translated into up to 22 languages ​​and became bestsellers. In Germany, a good 1.7 million copies of her youth books had been sold by the beginning of 2009 - including more than 1.2 million books in the Freche Mädchen series, launched in 1998 alone, with around 20 titles - around half a million abroad.

Some of the titles in the Naughty Girls' books written by Minte-König were set to music as audio books or radio plays - some of them with her daughter Gwyneth Minte as the speaker . In addition, there are other publications within the book series Love & Secret (seven titles) and in the narrative children's non-fiction book series Komm mit (approx. Ten titles).

Since July 2007, she has also had a number of novels for young women written by her daughter Gwyneth Minte . At about the same time, four of her Naughty Girls books were filmed for the cinema as well as the first volume of a new manga series Naughty Girls - Naughty Manga! released.

reception

The perception by literary criticism has so far been rather sporadic and focuses primarily on the successful and high-turnover youth book series by Bianka Minte-König - the author's assessment therefore goes hand in hand with the consideration of a genre she has played a leading role in. According to this, the genre “newer girlie literature” is valued very little overall, despite its popularity with the target audience and the resulting sales success.

In 2003, Hans-Heino Ewers introduced the "newer girlie literature" in a main seminar with a focus on children's and youth literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, with special mention of Bianca Minte-König with the note: "Superfluous to emphasize that this format, so little valued by research and criticism, is extremely popular with the target group. "

Florian Felix Weyh comments on Deutschlandfunk on the series of girls' books with glittering covers and stickers as a sign of a publishing competition, "who can make the young readers even better as a native tribe with glass beads". The following comment is made about the author: “Minte-König writes with a mallet.” Her series “Love and Secret” would also have “managed the mercantile feat of putting pure booklet novels - esoteric nonsense plus tortured kitsch romance - into the program of an otherwise respected youth book publisher.” And that the author teaches media and literature pedagogy as her main occupation, "makes one tremble gently - and hope that her supposed Jekyll & Hyde existence strictly separates the personalities."

Two other voices, on the other hand, justify the author's success with the proximity to her intended target group.

The “Reading Forum Bavaria” of the State Institute for School Quality and Educational Research (ISB) admits to the author when reviewing one of her serial girl books that she “moves very close to the mentality and the fragile feelings of young people” and, with her language, “the youth -Slang quite exactly " hit.

The film adaptation of Naughty Girls, based on several books from the girl series by Bianca Minte-König, is also well received by the Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , when it ends its criticism with the comment: “A harmless, happy teenage comedy that lives exclusively through looks at the adolescent but shrewd eyes of the "cheeky girls". "

bibliography

Children's non-fiction books

with illustrations by Hans-Günther Döring in the series Come with the Thienemann Verlag :

  • Come on, school is starting. 1999, as a mini edition 2001.
  • Come with me, it's very Christmas. 1999.
  • Come with me, we will discover spring. 2001.
  • Come on, we'll discover winter. 2001.
  • Come on, let's discover summer. 2002.
  • Come on, we'll discover the seasons. Anthology, 2003.
  • Come on, we'll discover the sea. 2004.
  • Come on, we'll build a house. 2005.
  • Come to kindergarten with me. 2007, as a mini edition 2008.
  • Come to school with me. 2008.

Youth book series

also from Thienemann Verlag:

→ Naughty girls - naughty books

  • Naughty Girls 2
    • Cell phone love. 2000, 2007.
    • Witch tricks & love spells. 2001.
    • Love quiz & horse kiss. 2001, 2008 (special edition for the film).
    • Love potion & chocolate kiss. 2003, 2008.
    • Superstars & love stress. 2004, 2008.
    • Love test & kiss of muses. 2004, 2008.
    • Love song & school festival kisses. 2005.
    • SMS & love stress. 2006.
    • Cheeky flirts & love dreams. 2009.
    • Naughty and from it:
      • Milas vacation diary: Mallorca 2010.
      • Mila's vacation diary: Paris 2012.
  • Kiki
    • Schoolyard flirt & catwalk dreams. 2002, 2007.
    • No smooching and thieves of the heart. 2003.
    • Love frustration & pop star kiss. 2005.
    • Guys & other disasters. 2007.
    • Vows of love and other disasters. 2009.
    • Schoolyard kisses & other disasters. 2010.
  • Leonie.
    • Love ... embarrassing. 2006.
    • Love ... totally crazy. 2007.
    • Love ... completely chaotic. 2008.
    • The wild roses ... boys alarm!
  • Vinni.
    • Dress rehearsal. 1998.
    • Theater fever. 1999.
    • Heart flicker. 2001.


→ love & secret

  • Esmeralda's curse. 2002, 2008.
  • School of Dark Dreams. 2004, 2008.
  • Scream from the past. 2006, 2008.
  • SMS from beyond. 2007.
  • Mist of oblivion. 2007.
  • The whispering heart. 2007.
  • Love letters to a dead woman. 2008.
  • The Bad Girls at Warfield Manor. 2009.

Manga style comics

Published by Tokyopop Verlag , Hamburg, or appear as the author of the book series Freche Mädchen - naughty Manga! The following comics in manga style with drawings or draftsmen by Inga Steinmetz , script and editing: Yuki Kowalsky:

  • Cell phone kiss & love puzzle. 2008.
  • Witchcraft & Sweet Dreams. 2009 ISBN 978-3-86719-426-6 .
  • Love letter and Zickenzoff

filming

Settings

For the settings of their Naughty Girls books, u. a. her daughter Gwyneth and the two girl group singers Marleen Heitzmann and Sabrina Ziegler von Samajona used as actors. The radio play Handy-Liebe achieved bestseller status.

In Audio Verlag , Berlin, have appeared since 2003 on the basis of their youth books following audio books as reading and radio plays :

Naughty Girls ... -audio plays
title Speaker music Director Duration
Cell phone love. 2003 ISBN 978-3-89813-273-2 Marleen Heitzmann, Sabrina Ziegler (both from Samajona ), Gwyneth Minte, Jutta Zingsheim, Klaus Christopher, Max Schrebb, Clara Hensel, Alex Medori, Nadja Lindner, Daniel Hauser, Wiebke Wolter Samajona Albert Fetzer 75 min.
Witch tricks & love spells. 2003 ISBN 978-3-89813-274-9 Marleen Heitzmann, Sabrina Ziegler (both from Samajona ), Gwyneth Minte, Jutta Zingsheim, Klaus Christopher, Max Schrebb, Clara Hensel, Alex Medori, Nadja Lindner, Daniel Hauser, Wiebke Wolter Samajona Albert Fetzer 77 min.
Love quiz & horse kiss. 2004 ISBN 978-3-89813-306-7 Marleen Heitzmann, Sabrina Ziegler (both from Samajona ) Samajona Albert Fetzer 78 min.
Naughty girls. Radio play for the movie. 2008 ISBN 978-3-89813-725-6 Emilia Schüle , Selina Shirin Müller , Henriette Nagel , Anke Engelke , Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht   Sabine Stiepani 80 min.
Naughty Girls ... Audiobooks
title Speaker Director Duration
Love potion & chocolate kiss. 2008 ISBN 978-3-89813-718-8 Gwyneth Minte Ulrich Biermann 158 min.
Superstars & love stress. 2008 ISBN 978-3-89813-719-5 Gwyneth Minte Sabine Stiepani 142 min.
Love test & kiss of muses. 2008 ISBN 978-3-89813-768-3 Gwyneth Minte Sabine Stiepani 143 min.
Vows of love and other disasters. 2008 ISBN 978-3-89813-769-0 Gwyneth Minte Sabine Stiepani 158 min.
Cheeky flirts & love dreams. 2009 ISBN 978-3-89813-914-4 Gwyneth Minte Sabine Stiepani 158 min.
My love - your love. 2009 ISBN 978-3-89813-863-5 Bianka Minte-König, Gwyneth Minte Sabine Stiepani 158 min.
My kisses - your kisses. 2010 ISBN 978-3-89813-939-7 Bianka Minte-König, Gwyneth Minte Sabine Stiepani 140 min.
Schoolyard kisses & other disasters. 2010 ISBN 978-3-86231-005-0 Gwyneth Minte Sabine Stiepani 158 min.
My friends - your friends. 2011 ISBN 978-3-86231-090-6 Gwyneth Minte, Bianka Minte-King Sabine Stiepani 139 min.
Heart palpitations & kiss finals. 2011 ISBN 978-3-86231-061-6 Gwyneth Minte Sabine Stiepani 140 min.

In 2008, books from the Love & Secret series are set to music for the first time , with Nana Spier as the narrator.

Love & Secret Audiobooks
title Speaker Director Duration
SMS from beyond. 2008 ISBN 978-3-7857-3623-4 Nana Spier   135 min.
Mist of oblivion. 2009 ISBN 978-3-7857-3673-9 Nana Spier    

Youth novels

In Heyne Verlag , Munich, published or displayed by her and Gwyneth Minte in the novel series: love? so far the following titles:

  • Volume 1 love? But of course! 2007.
  • Volume 2 love? Again and again! 2007.
  • Volume 3 love? Right now?! 2007.
  • Volume 4 love? Only with you! 2008.
  • Volume 5 love? Forever! 2008.
  • Volume 6 love? No ifs and buts! 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-40543-1 .

Scientific publications

  • Bianka Minte-König: Television and video in German lessons: on didactics of audiovisual reception and Production media . Fink, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7705-1876-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bianka Minte-König, MA, Prof. Dr. phil. In: fh-weltenbuettel.de. University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig / Wolfenbüttel, accessed on September 9, 2008 .
  2. ↑ City Chronicle Braunschweig. Entries for the year 1988. In: braunschweig.de. City of Braunschweig, accessed on September 10, 2008 : “25. to November 27, 1988: 13th Braunschweig picture book exhibition in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum "
  3. ^ Laudation for Philip Waechter on the occasion of the award of the 10th Eulenspiegel Prize of the City of Schöppenstedt 2005/2006 for his picture book "Rosi in the Ghost Train". ( Memento from April 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (RTF Download)
  4. ↑ Ann Claire Richter: Hebrew and Arabic she submits. In: newsclick.de. March 12, 2009. Retrieved March 12, 2009 .
  5. ↑ University of Frankfurt ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Hans-Heino Ewers on newer girlie literature in the advanced seminar of German studies / literary studies with a focus on children's and youth literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with the topic from comedy to comedy: laughter culture multimedial , 2003  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / user.uni-frankfurt.de
  6. ↑ Deutschlandfunk - Florian Felix Weyh : Brave Girls, Cheeky Publishers - About the boom in the girls' book series in German publishers. Feature on Deutschlandfunk , January 12, 2008
  7. ↑ Reading Forum Bavaria - Review by Albert Hoffmann on Bianka Minte-König: Liebestrank und Schokokuss , 2003
  8. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: OÖNachrichten - film review of the Upper Austrian News on Freche Mädchen based on several books from the girls' series by Bianca Minte-König.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nachrichten.at
  9. ↑ a b Bianka Minte-König. In: Authors & Illustrators. Thienemann Verlag ( Memento from December 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Stuttgart, has published the following books for young people so far
  10. ↑ Authors. Profile of Bianka Minte-König. ( Memento from April 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Naughty girls. (No longer available online.) Constantin Film, archived from the original on September 4, 2008 ; Retrieved September 4, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frechemaedchen.film.de
  12. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Bianka Minte-König.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dav.aufbau-verlag.de
  13. ↑ Bianka Minte-König. In: Heyne. Authors. M. Retrieved September 4, 2008 .


personal data
SURNAME Minte-King, Bianka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer of books for children and young people
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin