Ingrid Noll - Diogenes Verlag

Book fact sheet
Ingrid Noll
Die Sekretärin
General Fiction
96 pages
7.5 x 11.5 cm
appears 2000
Published by Diogenes as Die Sekretärin
English Title: The Secretary
World rights are handled by Diogenes
Bestseller
Spiegel Bestseller
Cinema Adaptation
2009: Ladylike. Jetzt ers recht!
Director: Vanessa Jopp
Storyboard: Christian Schnalke
Actors: Monika Bleibtreu, Gisela Schneeberger,
Günther Maria Halmer
2000: Kalt ist der Abendhauch
Director: Rainer Kaufmann
Storyboard: Ralf Hertwig
Actors: Fritzi Haberland, August Diehl, Heinz
Bennent, Gisela Trowe
1999: Die Häupter meiner Lieben
Director: Hans-Günther Bücking
Actors: Heike Makatsch, Christiane Paul
1999: Der Hahn ist tot
Director: Hermine Hunthgeburt
Actors: Gisela Schneeberger, August Zirner
1997: Die Apothekerin
Director: Rainer Kaufmann
Actors: Katja Riemann, August Zirner, Jürgen Vogel
Revenge is sweet. Secretaries, charwomen and housewives – there comes a
moment when enough is enough for all of them, and they cherish
thoughts of getting even with their bosses or husbands for the humiliation
received at their hands.
1993: Bommels Billigflüge
Director: Claus-Michael Rohne
Storyboard: Ingrid Noll
Actors: Rosemarie Fendel, Dominique Horwitz, Tina
Ruland
Awards
2016
2005
2002
1994
Ehrenkommissarin der Bonner Polizei
›Friedrich-Glauser-Preis – Ehrenpreis der
Autoren‹ für das Gesamtwerk
Verleihung der ›Verdienstmedaille des
Landes Baden-Württemberg‹ durch
Ministerpräsident Erwin Teufel
›Friedrich-Glauser-Preis‹ für Die Häupter
meiner Lieben
Praised by the press
»Ingrid Noll is one of the best German storytellers.« – Angela Gatterburg / Der Spiegel,
Hamburg
»Ingrid Noll has a distinct talent for finding the
horror in day-to-day life.« – Karin Oehmigen /
SonntagsZeitung, Zürich
»Ingrid Noll is often referred to as Germany's
›Queen of Crime‹, and she fully deserves this title.«
– The Sunday Times, London
»Riveting reading – we are captivated precisely
because it is all so familiar.« – Dieter Hildebrandt /
Sender Freies Berlin
Ingrid Noll’s books have been
published in 27 languages.
Ingrid Noll was born in 1935 in Shanghai. She
studied German philology and art history in Bonn,
has three children and four grandchildren. After her
children left home, she began to write crime
stories, which all became instant bestsellers. ›Head
Count‹ received the ›Glauser Prize‹ and is just one
of her novels to have been successfully adapted for
the screen.
Foto: Renate Barth / © Diogenes Verlag
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