Monika Bittl

Monika Bittl Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Monika Bittl (born January 9, 1963 in Beilngries ) is a German author .

Life

Monika Bittl completed a daily newspaper traineeship from 1982 to 1984, lived in Sicily for two years and studied German and psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1986 to 1992, completing a Magistra Artium. In 1993/94 she received a scholarship from the Munich Film School (script workshop); since 1993 she has been living as a freelance writer in Munich. In 2011 she was appointed tower clerk in Munich . In 2014 she was the first woman to be elected “Author of Freedom” by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation . As an unusually "enormously versatile author" (Süddeutsche Zeitung), Bittl works very successfully in various areas: She writes scripts, narrative non-fiction books, novels, essays, journalistic articles and teaches creative writing at the HFF Munich and the "Jugend Film Fernsehen" institute.

As a screenwriter, she specializes in Bavarian material and topics. In her first five novels she often described historical women. In the narrative non-fiction book she takes tragicomic stocktaking of today's reality of life for women. She also worked as a journalist, among others for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Focus . Until 2016 she wrote essays for NovoArgumente, among others .

With "You have to be able to let go", Bittl presented a British black comedy in September 2018, which was highly praised and described by the book journal as "fast, clever and hilarious".

“I remembered myself as younger - reading toxin for women over 40” was number one on the Spiegel bestseller list -Paperback for 27 weeks in 2016 . In total, it was on the Spiegel bestseller list for two years and thus advanced to a German mega-seller. It has been translated into Chinese, Russian and Dutch, among others. “I want to stay the way I was - happiness push-up for women over 40” entered the Spiegel-Paperback bestseller list three days after it appeared in 2017 and also became a bestseller. The following titles, too, would be happily married without my husband - reading wellness for women with attachments and women never lie and become 39 at most - downaging for beginners entered the Spiegel bestseller list of non-fiction books shortly after their publication in August 2018 and December 2019. Bittl's novel You have to be able to let go also reached the Spiegel bestseller list shortly after its publication.

Since I remembered myself younger, every cover has a chicken depicted.

Monika Bittl is married and has a grown son.

Works

Novels

• Irrwetter , Roman, Knaur TB, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-63543-8 .
• Bergwehen , Roman, Knaur TB, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-19801-8 . Template for the ZDF film The Midwife - For Life and Death .
• Freiwild , Roman, Droemer HC, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-19932-9 .
• The Expedition , Roman, Droemer TB, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-426-19802-5 .
• Das Fossil , Roman, Droemer TB, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-426-19976-3 .
• You have to be able to let go , Roman, Knaur TB, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-52323-0 .

Scripts

• Sau sticht , Heimatdrama, ZDF, 1995.
• Pumuckl's Adventure , 5 episodes, BR, 1999.
• Secrets , Comedy, BR 1997.
• Lindenstrasse . 9 episodes, WDR, 1999/2000.

Narrative non-fiction books

• Single parent with husband , together with Silke Neumayer, Knaur TB, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-78477-8 .
• Muttitasking , together with Silke Neumayer, Knaur TB, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-78539-3 .
• The porridge and the nothing , together with Silke Neumayer, Knaur TB, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-426-78669-7 .
• I remembered myself as younger - reading toxin for women over 40 , together with Silke Neumayer, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-426-78763-2 .
• I want to stay the way I was - lucky phew-up for women over 40 , Knaur TB, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-426-78892-9 .
• Without my husband I would be happily married - reading wellness for women with appendix , Knaur TB, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-78965-0 .
• Women never lie and become 39 at most - Downaging for beginners , Knaur TB, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-426-79067-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Monika Bittl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Monika Bittl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Author's website
• Tower clerk
• Author website of the publisher droemer / knaur

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monika Bittl - Life. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 29, 2016 ; accessed on November 16, 2017 . 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.  
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 29, 2016 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. 
3. ↑ Sabine Reithmaier: The ideas fly to her . Southgerman newspaper. October 28, 2015. Retrieved September 11, 2019.
4. ↑ A guest contribution by Monika Bittl: Die Kindoptimierer . In: sueddeutsche.de . August 2, 2013, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed December 18, 2017]).
5. ↑ FOCUS Online: Parents, relax! In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed December 18, 2017]).
6. ↑ Monika Bittl . In: Novo . ( novo-argumente.com [accessed October 14, 2018]).
7. ↑ Different than planned. Retrieved September 12, 2018 . 
8. ↑ SPIEGEL bestseller: LITERATUR SPIEGEL paperback bestseller list . In: Spiegel Online . March 25, 2015 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 1, 2018]).
9. ↑ I remembered myself younger - book report. Accessed February 1, 2018 (German). 
10. ↑ I want to stay the way I was - book report. Accessed February 1, 2018 (German). 
11. ↑ SPIEGEL bestseller: LITERATUR SPIEGEL paperback bestseller list . In: Spiegel Online . March 25, 2015 ( spiegel.de [accessed on August 12, 2018]).
12. ↑ Paperback - book report . In: book report . ( buchreport.de [accessed February 20, 2020]).