Karl Heinz Bittel

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Karl Heinz Bittel (born August 26, 1947 in Singen a. H. ) is a German publisher and author .

Life

Karl Heinz Bittel has lived in Munich since 1969 . He completed his training as a qualified librarian at academic libraries. In addition to the subsequent professional activity, he studied political science, history and philosophy in Munich. He broke off his studies when he became personal assistant and press spokesman for Munich's cultural advisor Jürgen Kolbe in 1984 . Together with him he wrote an extensive book about Thomas Mann and his years in Munich. From 1988 to 1999 he worked as a lecturer in a Munich publishing group and as program manager at Knaus Verlag . Bittel was Walter Kempowski's long-time editor and looked after the authors Stefan Heym , Ross King, Pascal Mercier , Lawrence Norfolk , Georg M. Oswald , Rolf Rietzler , Christa Schmidt , Christine Wunnicke and Jean Ziegler , among others . Since 1999 he has worked as a freelance editor and author.

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According to Heller Zauber. Thomas Mann in Munich 1894 - 1933 Bitte's first novel was published in 2008: A kind of betrayal is about the upheavals between Thomas Mann and his son Klaus. "In this key novel, Bittel works out the tragic, deadly father-son conflict in an exciting and confident manner," says Carlos Widmann (Deutschlandfunk). According to Die Welt, Bittel proves himself to be a talented imitator of voices and creates a remarkable piece of literature; the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praises the debut as a “humane book”. In 2009 the autobiographical novel Singen followed. A start to founding a beat band in the sixties. Patrick van Odijk (Deutschlandfunk) thinks that the author has succeeded more than just a biographical homeland novel from the swinging sixties in the provinces. You can feel which worlds collide. The happy reader was published in 2010 . 100 novels for all situations (together with Margit Schönberger), which, according to FAZ, recommends the right book for every dilemma and does not care about categories like E and U. Bittel also published Walter Kempowski's author portraits dealing with greats , and he also writes articles and reviews in newspapers and magazines as well as radio features.

Publications

  • (together with Jürgen Kolbe): Bright magic. Thomas Mann in Munich 1894-1933 . Berlin: Siedler Verlag 1987.
  • Kind of betrayal . Novel. Berlin: Osburg Verlag 2008.
  • To sing. A beginning . Novel. Berlin: Osburg Verlag 2009.
  • (together with Margit Schönberger): The happy reader. 100 novels for all situations . Munich: Knaur Verlag 2010.
  • Ed .: Walter Kempowski: dealing with sizes. My favorite poets - and others . Munich: Knaus Verlag 2011.
  • Articles and reviews in newspapers and magazines as well as radio features.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ My poor Bert, who knows nothing and can do nothing In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 26, 2009.
  2. ^ Karl Heinz Bittel In: droemer-knaur.de .
  3. ↑ Father-son conflict in the man's home In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . April 27, 2008.
  4. ↑ The cold eyes of Thomas Mann In: Die Welt . April 5, 2008.
  5. ↑ My poor Bert, who knows nothing and can do nothing In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 26, 2009.
  6. ↑ When the beat excited the youth In: Deutschlandfunk . January 11, 2010.
  7. ↑ Medicine cabinet. Instead of a doctor and therapy: a book as a life-reading aid . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 17, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Bittel, Karl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Singing at the Hohentwiel