Writing is life

The author Beate Rygiert

The die was cast at the age of 12. "I'm going to be a writer," Beate Rygiert (* October 21, 1960 in Tübingen) noted in her diary. From then on, all roads led to the goal: Beate Rygiert earned her master's degree in theater studies, musicology and Italian literature in Munich and Florence, and studied film at the New York Film Academy.

Writing is life

The author Beate Rygiert

The die was cast at the age of 12. "I'm going to be a writer," Beate Rygiert (* October 21, 1960 in Tübingen) noted in her diary. From then on, all roads led to the goal: Beate Rygiert earned her master's degree in theater studies, musicology and Italian literature in Munich and Florence, and studied film at the New York Film Academy.

Since then, she has written bestselling novels, short stories, biographies and screenplays. Her publications under Beate Rygiert and Tabea Bach have reached a circulation of millions and have been translated into 15 languages. She has received the Corine International Book Prize, the Würth Literature Prize, and the Thomas Strittmatter Screenplay Prize, among others, for her work. In addition to writing, she devotes herself to painting and music. Since 2004, Beate Rygiert has been involved in the fight against the HIV virus in Uganda.

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Awards

  • Scholarship holder of the Bartels Foundation at the "Kleiner Margräfler Hof", Basel, 2024
  • Writer in Residence of Centro Studi Ligure at Villa Pini, Bogliasco, Genoa, 2004 and 2022.
  • 2nd prize of the DELIA Literature Award for "The Song of Immortal Love" 2015
  • Corine International Book Award for "When I Fell from the Sky" 2011
  • Scholarship holder of the Fundaciòn Valparaiso, Mojacàr, Spain 2010
  • Writer in Residence at the Artist's Colony I-Park, East Haddam Connecticut, USA 2009
  • Thomas Strittmacher Screenplay Award 2008
  • Writer in Residence of the Bundanon Artist's Enclave in Australia 2008
  • Comburg writer of the city of Schwäbisch Hall 2007
  • Writer in Residence at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland 2007
  • Writer in Residence at the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation at the Chateau de Lavigny, Lausanne, Switzerland 2005
  • Writer in Residence of the Ledig House Foundation in Art/Omi, New York, USA 2003
  • Würth Literature Prize 2002
  • Scholarship of the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg 1997
  • Scholarships from the Förderkreis Deutscher Schriftsteller in Baden-Württemberg 1996, 1999, 2001, 2008, 2018