Christa von Bernuth

Christa von Bernuth (born March 5, 1961 in Munich ) is a German writer and journalist .

biography

After graduating from high school in Schondorf am Ammersee , she studied German and French in Munich and, after completing her training at the German School of Journalism, worked as an author for various women's magazines. Von Bernuth lives with her husband in Munich .

Artistic creation

In 1999 von Bernuth made his debut with the detective novel "The woman who lost her conscience".

In the following years she wrote three detective novels about Commissioner Mona Seiler (2001, 2003, 2004), which were filmed with Mariele Millowitsch in the lead role on RTL Television .

In the 2006 novel "Innere Security", Christa von Bernuth drew a portrait of the people and the moods in the GDR in the eighties. In addition, describes the novel compounds of the GDR regime to the terrorists of the RAF . According to her own statement, the events during a trip to the GDR in 1982, during which her companion was arrested on departure and subsequently convicted of alleged espionage , served as the impetus and template for the story .

In 2010, the relationship drama "Who was guilty" was published by Bernuth's first novel that is not part of the crime scene.

Works

Novels

Mona Seiler series

• The voices . Goldmann, 2001, ISBN 978-3442453832
• Unfaithful . Goldmann, 2003, ISBN 978-3442309658
• You were silent then . Goldmann, 2004, ISBN 978-3442460625 (Audiobook 2006, ISBN 978-3866042179 )

Lukas Salfeld series

• The wrong thing in me . dtv, 2014, ISBN 978-3423249928 (audio book 2014)
• The night in you . dtv, 2016, ISBN 978-3423261074 (audio book 2016)

Other

• The woman who lost her conscience . Goldmann, 1999, ISBN 978-3442443741
• Internal security . Piper, 2006, ISBN 978-3492263375
• Who was to blame . dtv , 2010, ISBN 978-3423248136

counselor

• That's how I get ahead in my job . Girlfriend (magazine) Ratgeber, 1993, ISBN 978-3806813814

Film adaptations

• 2003 The Voices (TV film, Olga film for RTL / ORF, 90 min), screenplay: Peter Petersen, based on the novel "The Voices" by Christa von Bernuth. Director: Rainer Matsutani, with: Mariele Millowitsch , Max von Thun . First broadcast: May 6, 2003 RTL
• 2004 Untreu (TV film, Olga film for RTL, 90 min), screenplay: Peter Petersen, Don Schubert. Based on the novel "Untreu" by Christa von Bernuth. Director: Rainer Matsutani, with: Mariele Millowitsch , Max von Thun . First broadcast: May 25, 2004 RTL
• 2005 Back then you were silent (TV film, Olga film for RTL / ORF, 90 min), screenplay: Rainer Matsutani, Peter Petersen. Based on the novel "Back then you were silent" by Christa von Bernuth. Director: Rainer Matsutani, with: Mariele Millowitsch , Max von Thun , Helmut Berger . First broadcast: May 26, 2005 RTL
• 2017 Traitor - Death by the Sea. Based on the novel "Innere Security" by Christa Bernuth. TV film, ZDF, 88 min. Script: Stefanie Veith, Nils Willbrandt, director: Franziska Meletzky, camera: Bella Halben, music: George Kochbeck , actors: Albrecht Abraham Schuch, Hannah Herzsprung, Christian Redl. First broadcast: August 21, 2017, ZDF

Web links

• Literature by and about Christa von Bernuth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website
• Meeting in "Die Welt"
• Entry in the German crime dictionary
• Christa von Bernuth in the Internet Movie Database (English)