Dora Heldt

Dora Heldt (born November 10, 1961 as Bärbel Schmidt in List on Sylt ) is a German writer .

Life

She was born in 1961 as the daughter of a Bundeswehr soldier on Sylt and grew up in different locations. After training as a bookseller in Bad Godesberg and years of work as a representative for the German paperback publishing house , which she also did for several years after her breakthrough as a bestselling author, she drew attention to herself as Dora Heldt with her novels about Christine and her idiosyncratic father Heinz. She lives with her family in Hamburg .

Act

Bärbel Schmidt has been publishing under the pseudonym Dora Heldt, the name of her grandmother, since her first novel Ausgeliziert (2006) . Her debut novel was already on the bestseller list (35th place in January 2006), but it wasn't until her third book, Urlaub mit Papa , that she achieved her breakthrough as a bestselling author in 2008. The title made it to number 5 on the Spiegel bestseller list. A film adaptation of the book made for ZDF in the summer of 2009 with Julia Stinshoff (Christine), Lambert Hamel (Heinz) and Steffen Groth (Johann) in the leading roles was shown on 15. Broadcasted November 2009 as a Sunday film. It was the first film adaptation of one of her books, and more followed. The book has also been translated.

With her novel Kein Wort zu Papa , she made it to number 1 on the bestseller list for the first time in 2010. Further No. 1 placings followed: In the heat, it is at least not cold (2011), wind from the west with strong gusts (2014), We Are the Good (2017), Three Women at the Lake (2018). The novels Tante Inge abuts (2009), Congratulations, you have won! (2013) and her first crime novel Böse People (2016) moved up to number 2 on the bestseller list.

In addition to novels for adults, she has also published Siebenmeter für die Liebe , a book for young people about first love and handball . She was an active handball player herself for many years.

Her works have also been published as audio books by Jumbo Verlag (GoyaLIT), some of them spoken by herself.

Works

Novels

• Inseparable. Novel. dtv , Munich 2006, ISBN 3-423-24573-5 .
• Loved. Novel. dtv, Munich 2006; New edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-21665-4 .
• Seven yards for love. Youth book. dtv, Munich 2008. (New edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-423-71586-7 ).
• Vacation with dad. Novel. dtv, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-25303-1 .
• Aunt Inge runs away. Novel. dtv, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-24723-8 .
• Not a word to papa. Novel. dtv, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-24814-3 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list in 2010 and 2011 )
• At least it's not cold when it's hot. Novel. dtv, Munich 2011. (New edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-21628-9 . ( 1st place on the Spiegel bestseller list from October 10 to 16, 2011 ))
• Congratulation, you won! Novel. dtv, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-423-28007-5 .
• Wind from the west with strong gusts. Novel. dtv, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-423-26039-8 .
• Bad people. Detective novel. dtv, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-26087-9 .
• We are the good. Detective novel. dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-26149-4 .
• Three women at the lake . Novel. dtv, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-26206-4 .

Volumes of stories

• Wiehnachten as jümmers ... (op platt) stories. Quickborn-Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-87651-381-2 .
• Snow is just beautifully made water: winter stories. Stories. dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-21694-4 .
• Summer. Now! Sunny stories . dtv, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-21728-6 .

Columns

• Now between us ... The secret of black cardigans and other very important findings. Columns. dtv, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-423-21509-1 .
• Basically everything is very simple. About the end of the world, about free brain cells and parking spaces for women. Columns. dtv, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-21644-9 .
• I can think of something else ... From chubby bumblebees, men on the phone and other earth-shattering questions. Columns. dtv, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-21744-6 .

Audio books

• 2008: vacation with dad. Read by Ulrike Grote , 3 CDs 200 min., ISBN 978-3-8337-2271-4 .
• 2009: Aunt Inge runs away. Read by Ulrike Grote, 3 CDs 220 min., ISBN 978-3-8337-2277-6 .
• 2009: Inseparable. Read by Ulrike Grote, 3 CDs 213 min., ISBN 978-3-8337-2438-1 .
• 2010: Not a word to papa. Read by Dora Heldt, 3 CDs 195 min., ISBN 978-3-8337-2644-6 .
• 2011: Loved. Read by Dora Heldt, 3 CDs 197 min., ISBN 978-3-8337-3718-3 .
• 2011: Loved. Read by Katja Riemann , 3 CDs 215 min., ISBN 978-3-8371-0885-9 .
• 2011: seven meters for love. Read by Josefine Preuß , 2 CDs 125 min., ISBN 978-3-8337-2682-8 .
• 2011: At least it's not cold when it's hot. Spoken by the author, 3 CDs 210 min., ISBN 978-3-8337-2775-7 .
• 2013: Congratulations, you've won! Spoken by the author, 3 CDs 230 min., ISBN 978-3-8337-3036-8 .
• 2014: Now among us ... Spoken by the author, 2 CDs 79 min., ISBN 978-3-8337-3294-2 .
• 2016: Basically everything is very simple. Spoken by the author, 2 CDs, ISBN 978-3-8337-3574-5 .
• 2017: Spring happiness & summer magic. Stories, poems and musical dreams, spoken by Dora Heldt, Julia Nachtmann , Karl Menrad u. a., 1 CD, ISBN 978-3-8337-3723-7 .
• 2018: Three women at the lake. Novel. Voiced by Anneke Kim Sarau , GoyaLIT, ISBN 978-3-8337-3901-9 .

Film adaptations

• Dora Heldt: Vacation with Papa , directed by Mark von Seydlitz , November 15, 2009, ZDF
• Dora Heldt: Aunt Inge runs away , directed by Mark von Seydlitz, February 27, 2011, ZDF
• Dora Heldt: Not a word to papa , directed by Mark von Seydlitz, January 22, 2012, ZDF
• Dora Heldt: At least it's not cold in the heat , directed by Mark von Seydlitz, November 11, 2012, ZDF
• Dora Heldt: Loved , directed by Mark von Seylitz, February 10, 2013, ZDF
• Dora Heldt: Inseparable , directed by Mark von Seydlitz, February 16, 2014, ZDF
• Dora Heldt: Congratulations, you won! , Directed by Mark von Seydlitz, May 4, 2014, ZDF
• Dora Heldt: Wind from the west with strong gusts , directed by Dirk Regel , May 8, 2016, ZDF

Web links

• Literature by and about Dora Heldt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Dora Heldt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner GmbH: Bärbel Schmidt / Dora Heldt (50). In: BuchMarkt. November 10, 2011, accessed on January 17, 2019 (German). 
2. ↑ book report. Retrieved January 17, 2019 (German). 
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