Marie Kondo

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Marie Kondō (2016).
Marie Kondō (2015).

Marie Kondō ( Japanese 近藤 麻 理 恵 , Kondō Marie ; born October 9, 1984 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese consultant and bestselling author whose three books have been translated into 27 languages ​​and sold 7 million times worldwide. In English, her last name even became the verb to kondo , which means to clean up a closet .

Career

Kondō works as a regulatory advisor. She gives courses and seminars in which she teaches throwing away and tidying up and presents these as a starting point for an inner order. In 2011 she published the book Jinsei ga Tokimeku Katazuke no Mahō , in which she introduces her methods to create and maintain order. The book sold more than 1.3 million copies in Japan and was the second highest-selling book in Japan in the first half of 2012. In 2012 she published a follow-up volume. Based on both books, the Japanese television station NTV is producing a television series of the same name.

At Rowohlt Verlag , works by Marie Kondō have been published in German since March 2013 . Both books were also published in Chinese in Taiwan . In 2019, the series Tidying up with Marie Kondo from the streaming provider Netflix started . The series led to an increased reception of Kondo in the media.

In the USA, Marie Kondo also offers special face-to-face seminars with which you can be trained as a Certified KonMari Consultant as part of a 7-stage qualification procedure (including online exams) . There are already certified consultants in freelance work in many countries around the world .

In her book she describes her clean-up method as the "Konmari method", which includes the following principles:

  1. Tidy everything up at once, in a short time and perfectly
  2. All things to clean up are collected in a heap
  3. Decide what to keep based on the question: does it make me happy when I pick up this item?
  4. Every item that you keep is assigned its place
  5. All things have to be properly stowed there

Kondo is married and has two daughters. She lives in Los Angeles .

Publications

  • Jinsei ga Tokimeku Katazuke no Mahō ( 人生 が と き め く 片 づ け の 魔法 ), Sunmark Shuppan, Tokyo 2011, ISBN 978-4-7631-3120-1 .
    • German edition: Magic Cleaning: How proper tidying up changes your life. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-499-62481-0 .
  • Jinsei ga Tokimeku Katazuke no Mahō 2 ( 人生 が と き め く 片 づ け の 魔法 2 ), Sunmark Shuppan, Tokyo 2012, ISBN 978-4-7631-3241-3 .
    • German edition: Magic Cleaning 2: How to keep your home and soul tidy. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-62895-5 .
  • Mainichi ga Tokimeku Katazuke no Maho (毎 日 が と き め く 片 付 け の 魔法) ,. Sunmark Shuppan, Tokyo 2014, ISBN 978-4-7631-3352-6 .
  • Irasuto de Tokimeku Katazuke no Maho = The Illustrated Guide to the Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (イ ラ ス ト で と き め く 片 付 け の 魔法). Sunmark Shuppan, Tokyo 2015, ISBN 978-4-7631-3427-1 .
    • German edition: The great magic cleaning book: About the happiness of tidying up. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-499-63381-2 .
  • Manga de Yomu Jinsei ga Tokimeku Katazuke no Mahō (マ ン ガ で 読 む 人生 が と き め く 片 づ け の 魔法). Sunmark Shuppan, Tokyo 2017, ISBN 978-4-7631-3551-3 .
    • German edition: The KonMari method: How to put love, job and everyday life in order. A Manga Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-499-63461-1 .
  • Children's book together with Salina Yoon: Kiki & Jax räum auf Rowohlt, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-499-00355-4 .
  • Joy at Work: Tidy and successful in working life Rowohlt, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-8052-0056-1 .

Filmography

  • 2013: 人生 が と き め く 片 づ け の 魔法, NTV TV series
  • 2019: Tidying Up With Marie Kondo ( Tidying Up With Marie Kondo , Netflix Original TV Series)

literature

  • Haringke Fugmann : Tidying up as a sacred act. On the ideological background of the bestseller "Magic Cleaning" by Marie Kondo. EZW -tex 252, Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions, Berlin 2017, ISSN  0085-0357 .
  • Christina Juerges, Ph.D. : Adieu mug - Does it spark joy ?. Sense of Home 03/04/2019, Herbert Burda Media Verlag.

Web links

Commons : Marie Kondo  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 近藤 麻 理 恵 さ ん （２８） 「と き め き」 を 基準 に し た 片 づ け 指南 書 が ベ ス ト セ ラ ー . (No longer available online.) In: zakzak. Sankei Digital, January 9, 2013, archived from the original on June 24, 2013 ; Retrieved May 29, 2013 (Japanese). 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.zakzak.co.jp
  2. ↑ Marie Kondo on Netflix: Who is Marie Kondo? , express.co.uk, January 7, 2019
  3. ↑ Who is Marie Kondo, star of Netflix show Tidying Up? , metro.co.uk, January 8, 2019
  4. ↑ a b Mikael Korgerus: Cleaning up forever. A mess in the room is a mess in the heart, says Marie Kondo, the tidiest woman in the world. In: Das Magazin , Tamedia , Zurich February 20, 2016, pages 8–16.
  5. ↑ a b 人生 が と き め く 片 づ け の 魔法 . NTV, accessed May 29, 2013 (Japanese).
  6. ↑ ISBN 978-986-175-247-1 and ISBN 978-986-175-307-2 .
  7. ↑ a b Tidying Up with Marie Kondo | Netflix Official Site. Retrieved January 11, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Vera Szybalski: The "Konmari" method: What is kept is what makes you happy. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
  9. ^ Marie Kondo: Kon Marie Consultants. Marie Kondo, accessed September 12, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Üsé Meyer: Order in Japanese. Radically clearing out should make you happy. The Japanese Marie Kondo wrote a bestseller about it - we tested the method. In: Observer Extra , Zurich September 30, 2016, pages 35–36.
  11. ↑ Marie Kondo: The Teaching of the Perfectly Ordered Children's Room , fr.de , September 26, 2017
  12. ↑ Megumi Fujikawa: Should You Kondo Your Kids? . In: Wall Street Journal . August 9, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2019: "... 2-year-old Satsuki Younger sister Miko, 10 months, Ms. Kondo's husband, Takumi Kawahara, 33, ..."
  13. ↑ As Marie Kondo gets her own Netflix show, can she help me tidy up? . iNews. December 31, 2018. Accessed January 12, 2019.
  14. ↑ DOMAINS: Marie Kondo Now Has a Reality Show: Netflix's 'Tidying Up' , The New York Times , January 2, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Kondo, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 近藤 麻 理 恵 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese consultant and bestselling author
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo