Monika Czernin

Monika Czernin (* 1965 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian author and filmmaker .

Life

Monika Czernin studied pedagogy, political science, philosophy and journalism at the University of Vienna , completing her degree in 1992 as a Magistra. During her studies she worked for ORF radio and later for ORF television in the ORF office in Berlin. Afterwards she was the cultural editor for the daily newspaper Die Presse . Since 1996 she has been living as a freelance writer and filmmaker on Lake Starnberg .

In 2005 she wrote the novel biography I lived too short about her second great aunt, Nora Kinsky . The story of Nora Countess Kinsky , in 2007 the television documentary The Countess and the Russian Revolution - Nora Kinsky - The Red Cross Baroness , designed by Monika Czernin, was published. Ottokar Czernin is also one of her ancestors , in 2010 she published his travel records under the title Graf Ottokar Czernin: My African Diary .

Her educational books , which she wrote together with Remo H. Largo , are longsellers . With Anna Sacher and her hotel . In Vienna at the turn of the century , it made it onto the Spiegel bestseller lists .

Publications (selection)

• 1999: Every moment a amazement , Walter Verlag, Zurich 1999, ISBN 978-3-530-60053-7 ; Piper-Verlag, Munich / Zurich 2002, ISBN 978-3-492-23695-9 .
• 2001: Picasso's hairdresser. The story of a friendship , together with Melissa Müller , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2001, ISBN 978-3-462-02980-2 .
• 2003: Instructions for use Vienna , Piper Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-492-27511-8 .
• 2003: Happy children of divorce , together with Remo H. Largo , Piper Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-492-04417-2 .
• 2004: Duino, Rilke and the Duineser Elegien , dtv-Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-423-34108-0 ; Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-85498-363-7 .
• 2005: I lived too short. The story of Nora Countess Kinsky , List Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-471-77276-8 .
• 2008: That wonderful feeling of freedom. Frieda von Bülow and the longing for Africa , List Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-471-77279-9 .
• 2011: Lisa, Princess over night , with drawings by Kera Till, Hanser Verlag Children's and Young People's Book, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23784-1 .
• 2011: Adolescent years , together with Remo H. Largo, Piper Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-05445-4 .
• 2013: Marie von Miller : The painter at Oskar von Miller's side , Volk Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86222-119-6 .
• 2014: The last festival of old Europe: Anna Sacher and her hotel , Albrecht Knaus Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-8135-0434-7 . As TB "Anna Sacher and her hotel. In Vienna at the turn of the century", TB Penguin Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-328-10058-4
• 2017: Maria Theresia - Always love me. Letters to her closest friend , together with Jean-Pierre Lavandier, Ueberreuter-Verlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-8000-7664-2 .

Filmography (selection)

• 2001: Picasso's hairdresser (direction together with Felix Breisach)
• 2005: Hitler and the Adel (screenplay with Melissa Müller, director)
• 2007: The Countess and the Russian Revolution - Nora Kinsky - The Red Cross Baroness (screenplay, director and leading actress)
• 2008: Old walls - new ideas. People in Europe (Director)
• 2010: The Dream of the Promised Land - Theodor Herzl and modern Israel (script together with Melissa Müller, director)
• 2012: Bergwelten - On the meaning of life: Viktor Frankl - On the 15th anniversary of death (screenplay and director)
• 2014: Universum History - Diplomatic Liaisons - The mistresses of the Congress of Vienna (script together with Melissa Müller and director)
• 2015: Remo Largo - A life for our children (documentary 52 min, script and direction together with Aldo Gugolz)
• 2017: Universum History - Maria Theresia - Majesty and Mother (screenplay and direction)
• 2018: Universum History - Ataturk - father of modern Turkey (screenplay and director) / Ataturk - visionary, revolutionary, reformer
• 2018: The last hours of an empress - Elisabeth and the anarchists (together with Anna Sigmund)

Web links

• Short biography and reviews of works by Monika Czernin at perlentaucher.de
• Works by and about Monika Czernin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Monika Czernin in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Monika Czernin: curriculum vitae . Retrieved February 12, 2016.
2. ^ Education and Democratic Revolutions in East Central Europe: A Comparative Case Study Using the Examples of the Czech Republic and Slovakia . Diploma thesis 1992, University of Vienna.
3. ↑ derStandard.at: "I lived too short", The story of Nora Countess Kinsky . Article from January 16, 2006, accessed on February 12, 2017.
4. ↑ Random House: Monika Czernin . Retrieved February 12, 2017.
5. ^ Count Ottokar Czernin: My African diary . Retrieved February 12, 2017.
6. ↑ Anna Sacher and her hotel. In: randomhouse.de. Random House Publishing Group, accessed September 4, 2017 .