Monika Boess

Monika Böss (2010)

Monika Katharina Böss (born September 17, 1950 in Bingen-Büdesheim ) is a German author.

Life

After completing an administration apprenticeship, she studied mathematics and social sciences.

Since the 1990s, Böss has been publishing novels and short stories on a regular basis , many of which are based in Rheinhessen . Her literary work has received several awards. The novel Marvins Bräute received the Martha-Saalfeld-Förderpreis in 2003 , and twice she won the prize of the cultural foundation of the Mainz-Bingen district. There are also several awards at dialect competitions such as the Stockstadt Literature Days 2016.

In addition to her literary work, Böss is regularly involved in the organization of literary projects, including 2001, 2003 and 2008 at the annual Rhineland-Palatinate cultural summer . Also in 2003, 2009 and again in 2016 she was one of the planners of the Rhineland-Palatinate Literature Days in Ludwigshafen, Bingen and Worms. From 1995 to 2009 she also headed the Wachtenburg literature group in Wachenheim an der Weinstrasse .

Böss has been a member of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate Media Council since November 2017

She lives in Mörsfeld .

Works

Novels

• And than a year passed . Gollenstein , Blieskastel 1998, ISBN 3-930008-74-2
• Hemshof-Blues Rhein-Mosel-Verlag, Bridel / Mosel 1999, ISBN 3-89801-105-4
• Marvin's brides . Wiesenburg-Verlag, Schweinfurt 2005, ISBN 3-937101-54-3
• When the beautiful girls die . Shaker Media , Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86858-191-1
• Aunt Gretel - or The Miraculous Impeccability . E. Humbert Verlag. Neu-Bamberg 2016, ISBN 978-3939285168
• Reinhessen - vun de Hiwwel niwwer zum Rhoi - Wartberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3831329724 .
• "We from the mountain - or the night side of the high Donnersberg", www.bod.de 2018

Short stories and short stories

• The anniversary . cjm-Verlag, Speyer 1994, ISBN 3-929015-25-0
• Cabbage Queen . Wiesenburg-Verlag, Schweinfurt 2002, ISBN 3-932497-73-2
• Out of land . Iatros-Verlag, Dienheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-937439-43-3
• Idylls and other stumbling blocks . Leinpfad-Verlag, Ingelheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-942291-12-5
• Writing places - where literature is created. Rhein-Mosel-Verlag, Bridel / Mosel 2014.
• Christmas in Rheinhessen. Wartburg Verlag, Gudensberg 2016, ISBN 978-3831329335

editor

• A - like unemployed . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag , Frankfurt 1987. ISBN 978-3596252-82-4
• Lioness is looking . Summit book publishing house, Waldsolms / Brandoberndorf 2004, ISBN 978-3937591-11-7
• Parents are responsible for their children . Gipfelbuch-Verlag, Waldsolms / Brandoberndorf 2008, ISBN 978-3937591-54-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Monika Böss in the catalog of the German National Library
• Monika Böss on the side of the Association of German Writers in Rhineland-Palatinate