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Mele Brink was born in Bielefeld in 1968, spent her youth in the East Westphalian hinterland and came to Aachen to study architecture. After successfully completing her degree in the form of a mobile memorial for Lady Di, however, she preferred to go freelance as an illustrator in 1998. Since then, she has produced mainly…

Born in 1978, after graduating from high school and learning a “decent” profession, Andrea Lienesch has concentrated entirely on writing and reading aloud since 2018. To give the characters from her books a voice of their own, she has had herself trained by a vocal coach. She can’t sing or dance and hasn’t studied anything…

David Füleki was born and raised in the Ore Mountains. As a child, he tried his hand at carving traditional Christmas decorations, but this led to such a high demand for sticking plasters that he switched to drawing. Later he studied media sciences and began working full-time as a comic artist and illustrator.

Stephanie Marian finds her inspiration in everything that is beautiful. She studied design with a focus on illustration at the MSD – Münster School of Design. Animal whisperer | Word wit and irony | Heartily laugh. Also out loud. | Actually an owl. Now mother and lark. | Passionate chocolate and art eater.

Andrea Weisbrod, born in Koblenz in 1966, did her doctorate in history on the political role of mistresses in the 18th century. In 2000, she moved with her family from Hamburg to Paris and gained some experience in journalism, after which she wrote her first novels and children’s books. As a freelance author and teacher…

Andrea Offermann, born in Cologne in 1980, studied illustration, animation design and printing technology in Los Angeles, Hamburg and Florence. Since then she has been working as a freelance illustrator, mainly for children’s and youth book publishers. Her work has won several awards, including the Youth Jury Prize of the Austrian Youth Book Prize and…

Natalia Bzdak is a freelance illustrator and designer. She works for various magazines, cultural institutions and companies. Her constant goal is to bring content, ideas and concepts to the point in a visually loving way. In terms of visual language, she loves to play with ambiguity. To present things, like interpersonal relationships, in a narrative…

Ramón D. Veiga was born in El Ferrol in 1970. He holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of La Coruña and has been working in the field of publishing since 1996, which he combines with his collaboration with various blogs.

Iván R. was born in Nigrán in 1980. After having worked as an illustrator for publishing houses, cinema, press, television and advertising for fifteen years, he discovered a new illustrative language on textile medium, which led him to teach illustration and design at a fashion school, a task he combines with his work in his…

Petra Steckelmann is a child of the seventies and was born in Hamburg. After stopovers in various professions, she now lives in her native city as a freelance writer of books for children and young people and finds the ideas for her books on long walks along the banks of the Elbe.  

Patrick Bonato, born in Rum in Tyrol in 1983, grew up drawing in Innsbruck, then studied graphic design at the Angewandte in Vienna. In addition to numerous travels, he spent time abroad in Lucerne (studying illustration), where he has lived and worked as a graphic designer and illustrator since graduating. www.patrickbonato.com

Alexandra Helmig, born in Düsseldorf in 1975, studied creative writing at the LMU Munich and acting in Hamburg. Today she works successfully as an actress for theatre, film and television, is active as a narrator and author and has already received many awards for her work.

Stefanie Harjes was born in Bremen in 1967 and studied illustration and painting in Hamburg and Prague. She has been working as an illustrator and book artist in her Hamburg studio “Überm Wind” for 27 stormy years. She organises workshops, seminars and lectures for children, young people and adults worldwide and has been awarded numerous…

Maike Siebold works as a product poet (copywriter) in a communications agency. She took her first professional steps in the area of children’s and youth work. She has a pronounced weakness for dessert, a penchant for points and loves Swing. Her family includes three sons, two stepchildren, a fat cat and a great husband. www.maike-siebold.de…

Ulrike Baier was born in Erlangen in 1965. Drawing and painting were her favourite pastimes even as a child. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and still paints pictures for adults and especially for children. She has published several picture books, received awards for her illustrations from the Stiftung Buchkunst, among…

Anna Maria Praßler was born in Swabia, Bavaria in 1983. She writes screenplays and prose, was nominated for the German Film Award and read at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt. She lives in Berlin with her family.

It all started (a long time ago) with a very personal re-adaptation of The Bald Cantatrice and its performance in front of a bewildered but enthusiastic family audience. Many years later, her fascination for stories – illustrated stories in particular – led Hélène to work in children’s publishing, then in a school of applied arts,…

Yukiko Noritake was born in Aichi, Japan in 1989. She is a Japanese illustrator and artist based in Sartrouville, near Paris. She graduated from the illustration department of the École de Condé Paris in 2018, she published her first book Voyage au Pays des odeurs (Actes Sud junior) which was her final year project and…

Kathrin Schrocke was born in Augsburg in 1975. She studied German and psychology and then worked for several years as a press officer in the publishing industry and as a lecturer in adult education. She has been a freelance author since 2005. Her novels for young people on realistic and socially critical themes have been…

*1972, studied animation in Potsdam-Babelsberg and has already illustrated many children’s and youth books for many different publishers. Melanie Garanin lives near Berlin with her family and a bunch of animals. There have never been hawks in her henhouse. But crazy lovers have. Her autobiographical book “Nils” recently received a lot of attention. www.melaniegaranin.com

Robert Gwisdek aka Käptn Peng *1984 in Berlin, is a German actor, musician and book author. As a musician he is known under the stage name Käptn Peng and is the singer and lyricist of the alternative hip-hop band Käptn Peng & Die Tentakel von Delphi. His novel “Der unsichtbare Apfel” (The Invisible Apple) was…

Giselle Clarkson is an illustrator from Wellington, New Zealand. She once drew a picture of some biscuits that was shared online so many times that they put her on TV. As well as illustrating children’s books, Giselle is a regular contributor to the NZ School Journal. She writes a comic about children’s books for The…

Heiko Hentschel is a film illustrator, storyteller and full-time maniac. When he’s not working as a cartoonist on animated films or consuming the worst films of all time on continuous loop, he invents hair-raising adventure stories, scary-beautiful creatures and bittersweet happy endings. He lives in Hamburg with his partner. He is probably eating right now….

Lena Hach was born in Hesse in 1982. She attended a school for clowns and studied English, German and creative writing. She first worked as a journalist and then devoted herself to children’s and youth literature. In the meantime, many of her books have been published. “Der verrückte Erfinderschuppen” [The Crazy Inventors’ Hut] was awarded…

Ann Cathrin Raab, born in 1979, studied Illustration in Hamburg and has worked as a freelance illustrator since 2007.. She is a member of the Hamburg illustrators’ group “Die Krickelkrackels”. Her picture book Zeckengeflüster (Hinstorff, 2008) was nominated for the Oldenbourg Children’s Book Award, received the prize of the  Biennal of Illustrations Bratislava and honored…

Gavin Bishop ONZM, Tainui, Ngāti Awa, is a leading New Zealand illustrator. He has published over 70 books internationally and been translated into 12 languages. He has written for television and theatre, as well as a libretti for the Royal New Zealand Ballet. His awards include the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement 2020, the…

Pilar Serrano Burgos (Madrid, 1977) has a degree in Primary Education and specializes in that of young children. She works as a teacher in a public school. Since 2014, the year she debuted as an author, she has published about fifteen books that have been translated into Chinese, Korean, English, Italian and Catalan.

Joaquín Camp (Buenos Aires, 1987) studied Illustration and Graphic Design at the University of Buenos Aires. He has worked for publishers around the world and in the printed press. His illustrations have been seen in exhibitions in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Peru and Japan. He currently lives in Madrid.

Josephine Wolf, born in Berlin in 1992, is an illustrator and communication designer majoring in children’s and educational media. Besides illustrating children’s books, animated movies, and games she is currently working on her frst graphic novel and supports diverse smart educational thinkers, for example Tetrapix and the Education Innovation Lab.

Martin Baltscheit, born in Dusseldorf in 1965, studied communication design at Folkwangschule Essen and started his career as a cartoonist. Nowadays he works as an author, illustrator, and speaker. He madehis debut as a movie director in 2017 and was honoured with the “Kinderhörspielpreis” (Children`s Audio Drama Award) by the MDR, a German radio and…

Barbara van den Speulhof is a passionate story creator. Picture books as door openers to the world of fantasy and empathy are a special concern of her heart. Some of her books have also enjoyed international popularity or have made their way onto the theatre stage. She also writes, produces and directs radio plays. When…

Mirjam Zels was born in Regensburg in 1989 and grew up in Dresden. She trained in illustration and graphic design in Nuremberg, Hamburg and Tel Aviv. Just like Amelie, Mirjam Zels very much enjoys travelling the world and to herself, researching, collecting stories and new adventures and celebrating all the wonderful encounters along the way….

Jens Rassmus, born in Kiel in 1967, studied illustration in Hamburg and Dundee, Scotland. He has been illustrating and writing children’s books for many years, for which he has received numerous awards, including the Austrian Children’s and Young People’s Book Prize three times and a nomination for the German Children’s Literature Award. Jens Rassmus lives…

Julia Willmann, born in 1973, writes for children and adults. Her texts were published in anthologies and literary magazines before her debut novel was es ist (fontis Verlag) was published in 2017. The work on Rascha und die Tür zum Himmel [Rascha and the Door to Heaven] was supported by the Amanda Neumayer Scholarship in…

Karin Koch, born in 1961, works as a physiotherapist in her own practice and lives in a small village near Karlsruhe. She writes children’s books, short stories and dialect. She has received several awards for her dialect stories. In 2008, she received the Rotraud Dankar Authors’ Prize and in 2009 she was a prize-winner at…

Nanen García-Contreras was born in Guadix (Granada). She obtained a degree in Fine Arts specializing in painting in Granada and later studied Design and Printmaking in Seville. She currently combines her passion for telling stories through images with teaching visual arts in secondary schools and also with ceramics, animation, sculpture, engraving… She understands creation as…