Meike Winnemuth

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Meike Winnemuth at the Leipzig Book Fair 2019

Meike Winnemuth (born June 19, 1960 in Neumünster ) is a German journalist and book author .

Life

Winnemuth lives in Hamburg and Munich. After graduating from high school, she studied English and German in Göttingen, Exeter and Berlin from 1979 to 1987 . She then completed the Henri Nannen School for Journalists in Hamburg. As a freelance journalist, she writes for Stern , Geo Saison , A&W Architektur & Wohnen and SZ Magazin, among others .

Among other things, a report published in 1997 in the women's magazine Amica caused a sensation in which Winnemuth described the use of various sex services in a self-experiment.

On October 11, 2010, the quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? she won 500,000 euros as a candidate. After winning, she traveled around the world in twelve months in 2011 and visited twelve cities, each of which she rented an apartment for one month. She summarized her experiences in the book Das große Los , with which she landed a Spiegel bestseller.

Your travel logbook Before me, the world was nominated in 2012 for the Grimme Online Award in the category culture and entertainment . At the LeadAwards 2012 she received an award in the category Weblog of the Year . At the beginning of 2014 she continued her project with the plan to visit twelve German cities and an island in twelve months. On March 3, 2014, she announced on her blog, Back on Los , that she would stop reporting on it. On November 1, 2014, it participated in the mission , the quiz champion of the ZDF in part. In 2015, her book To make it short with texts from her columns was published.

Works

  • Meike Winnemuth with Peter Praschl : Up and away: a novel for two . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-455-10378-2 .
  • Meike Winnemuth with Peter Praschl: Double pack: the ultimate instruction manual for life as a couple . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-426-61853-2 .
  • Meike Winnemuth with Peter Praschl, Kitty Kahane : Two boxes: a factual report about life as a couple . Ars Edition, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7607-1867-1 .
  • The big lot: How I won half a million at Günther Jauch and just drove off . Albrecht Knaus Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8135-0504-7 .
  • To make it short: About the outrageous happiness of being in the world . Albrecht Knaus Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8135-0695-2 .
  • I'm in the garden: Grow and let grow for a year . Penguin Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-328-60045-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kress media service about Meike Winnemuth
  2. ↑ rbb Mediathek ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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 / mediathek.rbb-online.de
  3. ↑ Who lives there? Retrieved August 21, 2015
  4. ↑ Marianne Wellershoff: Mercilessly honest - two AMICA authors tested the sex market in a self-experiment . In: Der Spiegel . No. 29 , 1997, pp. 99 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Bestseller - non-fiction books . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 2013, p. 125 ( online ). Quote: "2 [...] Meike Winnemuth - The big lot"
  6. ↑ Nominated 2012 ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. at the Grimme Institute @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimme-institut.de
  7. ↑ Lead Awards 2012: Winners (PDF; 164 kB)
  8. ^ Meike Winnemuth: Visitation. In: Back on the go. March 3, 2014, accessed October 24, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Winnemuth, Meike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumunster