Monika Held

Monika Held at a reading in the Frankfurt " Haus am Dom ", August 2017

Monika Held (* 1943 in Hamburg ) is a German writer and journalist .

Life

Monika Held grew up in Hamburg and Cuxhaven as the daughter of a sales representative and a pensioner. The parents set up their own small pension in Cuxhaven - Duhnen in the 1950s . The daughter had after GCSEs there first publishing executive to learn before a traineeship at the Hanover press was allowed to begin and journalist was. After her traineeship, she worked for Hamburger Abendecho and Reutlinger Generalanzeiger and finally for company magazines. Then she switched sides and covered working conditions, the union movement and strikes for the union press for many years. She was a permanent freelancer for Hessischer Rundfunk and produced radio features for SR , SWF / SWR , SFB / rbb and WDR . From 1991 she was a permanent writer at Brigitte magazine . In addition to everyday journalistic work, he wrote nonfiction books and finally novels. Monika Held has been a freelance writer since 2000, living in Frankfurt am Main and North Friesland .

Awards

• 1985: IG Metall Prize for reports from the world of work
• 1998: German Social Prize of the Federal Association of Independent Welfare Care (BAGFW)
• 1999: Elisabeth Selbert Prize of the State of Hesse
• 2011: Medal Wdzięczności - medal of gratitude from the European Solidarność Center

Works

• Nice, perfect working environment. Methods and manipulations of the factory press. With Hella Schlumberger, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 978-3-434-10079-9 .
• Profession: secretary. Reports, minutes, analyzes. Mosaik Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 978-3-570-06973-8 .
• Do you know Auschwitz. Original audio play, Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt 1989
• Frankfurt, a German city remembers. With Inge Kurtz and Florian Schwinn , radio play documentary in CD box, pool documentation, Hessischer Rundfunk, Berlin, Frankfurt 1994
• Generation Plus: The lie that growing old is fun. With Christa Geissler, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-89602-433-6 .
• Eye pictures. Roman, Eichborn, Frankfurt / Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-8218-0934-2 .
• Melody for a handsome man. Roman, Eichborn, Frankfurt / Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-8218-5752-7 .
• Generation Plus lives its future: The awakening of the elderly - conversations, reports and portraits. With Christa Geissler, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89602-755-9 .
• An indomitable woman. Margarete Mitscherlich in conversation with Kathrin Tsainis and Monika Held. Diana Verlag, Munich 2007, TB 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-35239-1 .
• The horror disappears on site. Roman, Eichborn, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-8479-0529-5 .
• Rubble brat. Roman, Eichborn, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-8479-0570-7 .
• Summer child. Roman, Eichborn, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-8479-0626-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Monika Held in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author's website for Eichborn Verlag at Lübbe