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Liliane Oser has always been painting, drawing and crafting. She studied illustration in Hamburg and now draws for various publishers. When she is not on holiday on the farm, she lives with her family in Hamburg.

Regina Wenig was born in the Bavarian Forest and now lives in Frankfurt/ Main. She studied art history and theatre studies. Today she works as a waitress, clown, performer and writes and directs plays.

Seoha Lim is an illustrator. As a child, Seoha wanted to draw beautiful things when she grew up … which brought her to study creative writing and illustration. Since her childhood she has dreamed of a world where animals and humans live in perfect harmony. It is this inaginary world that inspires her illustrations. Today,…

Betty Conhoff, née Arias, comes from beautiful Peru and grew up in a port city on the Pacific. Ever since she can remember, paper and pencil have been faithful companions in her life. Even today, she has the fondest memories of the great evening drives with Dad to buy comics. She now lives in Germany…

Antonia Katt grew up in a house full of books and music as well as in the forest. She has always been an ardent story lover and simply writes what she herself would have liked to read as a child and teenager. After studying German and Romance languages and literature in Germany and Italy, she…

Anna Kindermann, born in 1987 in Berlin, has studied and worked in China and France before leading the Marketing and Foreign Rights departments at Kindermann Verlag from 2015 onwards. In 2020, she then took over the management from her motherBarbara Kindermann. The Twelve Labours of Hercules was Anna Kindermann’s debut as an author.

Dorota Wünsch, born in 1962 in Łódź (Poland), studied Art at the Acadamy of Fine Arts in her birth town before coming to Germany via a guest scholarship at the University of Mainz. She received several awards for her illustrations. For Kindermann Verlag, Dorota Wünsch has already illustrated Squire Ribbeck of Ribbeck in Havelland.

Gerda Muller was born in Naarden in the Netherlands in 1926. She attended the Amsterdam School of Fine Arts and Crafts, where the students were told, however, that outside of advertising there was no way to earn a living with illustrations. So at the end of the 1940s, she set off for Paris with a…

Inés María Jiménez has Spanish and German roots. She has been a freelance author since 2009. She prefers to write books for children and young people, but also non-fiction and stories for adults. She lives in the Ruhr region with her husband, her two daughters and her fuzzy poodle Balou. She loves reading, yoga, long…

Rüdiger Bertram lives with his family in Cologne, where he makes his living writing books for children and young people. He has been doing this for almost 20 years, but he has never written a unicorn book. That’s how the idea for Glitzerbande came about, because Rüdiger Bertram is a big unicorn fan. Really true…

Selim Özdogan was born in Cologne in 1971. He wanted to become a writer even as a child. Since 1995 he has published novels, stories, audio books and has received numerous prizes and scholarships. The Ant and the Frog is his first children’s book.

Clara Sophie Klein (born 1995) grew up in Copenhagen and grew up even more in Bonn. She studied design at Münster University of Applied Sciences with a focus on illustration and has been working freelance ever since. She is a part-time bartender, hobby cellist, full-time illustrator with a focus on book illustration and editorial.  

Ernst Kahl, born 1949 , is an author, painter and musician. His cartoons have appeared in Pardon, Konkret and Titanic, among others. Kahl was awarded the First Prize of the Cartoonale Düsseldorf, the Wilhelm Busch Prize, the Göttingen Elk and the Filmband in Gold for the screenplay of the Detlev Buck film “Wir können auch…

Will Gmehling, born in 1957, painted pictures for adults for a long time until he started writing books for children. In 1998 his first children’s book Tiertaxi Wolf & Co. was published by Sauerländer Verlag. Many picture and children’s books followed, which were translated into numerous languages. The children’s novel Freibad [The Lido] received several…

Eleonora Pace is an Italian based illustrator, specialized in picture books and school books. She also works as an art teacher at La Bottega del cigno in Padua, where she gives painting courses for children and adults. eleonorapace.wordpress.com  

Lisa Rammensee was born in Nuremberg in 1990 and is proud of her Franconian roots. Via Trier, where her communication design studies gave her a lot of helpful knowledge about design and layout, she finally came to Hamburg. There she is working on her Master’s degree in illustration at the HAW. Her heart beats for…

Sandra Grimm lives in northern Germany with her husband and children. She has been writing books for young and older children for many years. When wild capybaras or other adventurous creatures come in and tell her stories, she likes to write them down for curious reading children.

Thais Mesquita was born in Brazil in 1989 and has lived in Germany for several years. She studied fine arts in her home country and media art and design at Bauhaus University-Weimar and has been working as a freelance illustrator, designer and 2D artist since 2011. She likes to experiment with different materials, textures and…

Corinna Antelmann, born in Bremen in 1969, has lived in Upper Austria since 2006. She studied literature and film at the University of Hildesheim and worked as a freelance author, dramaturge and lecturer after positions at the Theaterwerkstatt Hannover and Trickompany Hamburg. She has published novels, plays, essays and received numerous scholarships and prizes for…

Katharina Bendixen, born in Leipzig in 1981, studied book science and Hispanic studies in Leipzig and Alicante and lives in Leipzig with her family. She writes books for children and adults. Her texts have been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships, including the Kranichsteiner Literature Promotion Prize (2014), the Heinrich Heine Scholarship (2017) and a working…

Elizabeth Knox is an adventurous and imaginative fiction writer who has published several novels for adults and children, as well as autobiographical novellas. Her writing is never static, and moves from historical drama, to science fiction, to memoir. Her novel, The Vintner’s Luck, first published in 1998, was a huge success with readers and critics…

Alexandra Prischedko was born in 1989 in Zitomir, Ukraine. She studied communication design at Trier University of Applied Sciences and on an Erasmus scholarship at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. She works as an independent communication designer and illustrator. She also teaches drawing and typographic design at Trier University of Applied…

Volker Präkelt, born in Recklinghausen in 1956, is the creative head of the science series “Marvi Hämmer”, broadcast by the German tv channels ZDF and KI.KA. Today he works as a freelance author and director for books, audio books and television. He has penned the nine titles in the non-fiction series BAFF!, among others. Limbradur…

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…