Motor vehicle lighting device for a motor vehicle headlamp comprising - at least one light source, - an optical light imaging system associated with the at least one light source and adapted to image the light generated by the at least one light source in the form of a light distribution in front of the motor vehicle lighting device, and - an optical structure which is configured to modify the light distribution to a modified light distribution and has a plurality of optical light-scattering structural elements (50, 60), each structural element having a projection, which projection deflects the light generated by the at least one light source and directed onto the projection with the aid of the at least one light imaging system, in at least one spatial plane in at least one direction, wherein - the optical structure being arranged downstream of the at least one optical light imaging system in the main radiation direction or being a part of the optical light imaging system - the projection is convex and has at least one curved surface (52, 61) and a substantially planar surface (53, 64) opposite the curved surface - which curved surface (52, 61) faces the light (8, 80) generated by the at least one light source and directed onto the structural element (50, 60) by means of the at least one light imaging system, and - the at least one spatial plane is a horizontal plane, and - the modified light distribution is widened in the horizontal plane characterized in that the structural elements are arranged and/or designed in such a way that the light incident on the structural elements scatters in a further, vertically arranged spatial plane in all directions in an angular range of 0° to 45° upwards from the main radiation direction of the motor vehicle lighting device, and the modified light distribution is widened in the vertical spatial plane. - at least one light source, - an optical light imaging system associated with the at least one light source and adapted to image the light generated by the at least one light source in the form of a light distribution in front of the motor vehicle lighting device, and - an optical structure which is configured to modify the light distribution to a modified light distribution and has a plurality of optical light-scattering structural elements (50, 60), each structural element having a projection, which projection deflects the light generated by the at least one light source and directed onto the projection with the aid of the at least one light imaging system, in at least one spatial plane in at least one direction, wherein - the optical structure being arranged downstream of the at least one optical light imaging system in the main radiation direction or being a part of the optical light imaging system - the projection is convex and has at least one curved surface (52, 61) and a substantially planar surface (53, 64) opposite the curved surface - which curved surface (52, 61) faces the light (8, 80) generated by the at least one light source and directed onto the structural element (50, 60) by means of the at least one light imaging system, and - the at least one spatial plane is a horizontal plane, and - the modified light distribution is widened in the horizontal plane