Kristine Bilkau

Kristine Bilkau (* 1974 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

Born and raised in Hamburg, she studied history at the University of Hamburg . She then worked as a journalist for women's and business magazines . In 2008 she was a finalist in the literature competition Open Mike in Berlin and in the following year she was a scholarship holder of the authors' workshop of the Literary Colloquium Berlin . In 2010 she received a scholarship from the Artists' Village Schöppingen . In 2013 she took part in the Bavarian Academy of Writing at the Munich Literature House. In 2015 she published her first novel Die Glücklichen . He describes the quiet social decline of a nuclear family into the precariat . The following year, Suhrkamp Verlag published an anthology with texts by young authors on the subject of home , foreign and identity with a text by Kristine Bilkau. A theater adaptation of “Die Glücklichen”, which was performed in February 2017, was included in the program of the Münchener Kammerspiele .

She lives with her family in Hamburg.

Sleek, brutal and sexy: James Bond as an example of the construction of masculinity in the media . VDM, Müller, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-8364-1524-8 .
The lucky ones . Luchterhand, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-630-87453-1 .
A love in your mind . Luchterhand, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-630-87518-7