Wiki is mostly right. It does not show a full work history and leaves out some theatre work ( songs and a libretto for Leonce and Lena, Berliner Ensemble, and lyrics for Peter Pan, Berliner Ensemble).

So this is my version:

Arezu Weitholz was born 1968 and grew up in rural Niedersachsen. She worked as a bank clerk for Deutsche Bank, studied economic sciences for two years and became a journalist at Max magazine in 1992. After an internship in the fashion-, travel- and music-department, she became the magazine’s pop music editor until 1996. For one year she relocated to South Africa and played as a DJ in clubs and at parties, mostly Drum&Bass and HipHop. 1997 she returned to Europe to work as a journalist for Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine and Spiegel Spezial, the monthly magazine of DER SPIEGEL.
In 2000 she moved to London and worked there as a foreign correspondent for German media, magazines and newspapers.

There she worked with German artist Herbert Grönemeyer and collaborated with him on his lyrics for Mensch, the multimillion bestselling album, which is until today the most successful German record of all time, winning her 9 times platinum. Subsequently she became a lyricist for many other German bands and artists (see Wikipedia).

Her first book, a volume of poetry about fish: Mein lieber Fisch, was published by weissbooks, an independent publishing house in 2010, she illustrated it herself. Her fish poems became an instant hit, and the book and its softcover sold about 10.000 copies. More fish poetry books followed, the last one being a “best of”, published in 2017: Der Fisch ist ein Gedicht.

Her first novel Wenn die Nacht am stillsten ist, a fictional memoir, was published in 2012 to great critical acclaim. Her second novel was published in 2020: Beinahe Alaska. The story about a woman travelling to Alaska and not getting there, won her the Hans Fallada literature awards in 2022.

In 2022 she created the concept for and wrote Zu Mensch, an illustrated novel about the “making of” the album Mensch, together with German illustrator Katrin Funcke.

2024 her third novel Hotel Paraíso was published by mare and won the Leseschatz Preis.

Her writing and her illustrations have been published by Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, the Sunday edition of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, as well as in women’s magazines.

She currently works and lives in Berlin and Schleswig-Holstein. Her agent is Birgit Schmitz, who also runs toc publishing, a beautiful small publishing house: birgit@toc.berlin.

For foreign rights, please contact:
Fish poetry, Zu Mensch: Kunstmann Verlag
Hotel Paraíso, Beinahe Alaska: mare Verlag
Wenn die Nacht am stillsten ist: something@elvislebt.com
Lyrics and Illustrations: something@elvislebt.com