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Halina Kirschner works as a freelance illustrator and designs books, posters, program booklets and much more. Her books »Trecker kommt mit« (with Finn-Ole Heinrich & Dita Zipfel) and »Das ist das Bauhaus!« were awarded »Most Beautiful German Books«. Most recently, she illustrated »Trieste Centrale« by Jaroslav Rudiš.   

Christine Werner has been working as a freelance author and journalist for ARD radio for 25 years, writing and producing mainly reports, especially on socio-political and social issues. For this she is on the road a lot. She likes to spend the night with friends, live temporarily in other families and draws inspiration from them….

Beate Hanika, born in Regensburg in 1976, is a photographer and worked as a model for several years. Today she writes poems, short stories and novels for young people and adults, for which she has won several awards. She lives with her family near Regensburg.

Merle Goll, born in 1975 on the Kiel Fjord, went to England as an au pair after her A-levels, studied Graphic Design in Bristol and still lives on the island. In the meantime, the mother of two lives in Twickenham and works there as an illustrator. There are no fish in her bathtub, but her…

Birge Tetzner would like to go on a journey through time herself. Unfortunately, no one has invented a suitable time key yet. So she sends the archaeologist’s son Fred on a journey into the past. Birge loves to look for stories in history. When she is not dreaming up a new adventure for Fred, she…

Birgit Schössow is from Hamburg and studied Illustration at the Fachschochschule für Gestaltung in Hamburg. She now lives on the Baltic Sea and illustrates, designs, writes texts, makes animations and also the music for children and adults. Some of her covers for “The New Yorker” have been published in the “Society of illustrators”, New York…

Sibylle Wulff studied “Conservation and Restoration of Paintings and Polychrome Sculptures” in Stuttgart and Newcastle. Since 2007, she has been in charge of the over 600-year-old Custody / Art Collection of the University of Leipzig as a restorer.

Fabienne Meyer studied “Conservation and Restoration of Art on Paper, Library and Archive Materials” in Stuttgart. She did her doctorate on pollutants in museums and works as a restorer at the Museum of Prints and Drawings of the National Museums in Berlin.

Martina Leykamm studied communication design in Nuremberg and London. She has lived in Berlin since 2000 and works as a freelance illustrator for book publishers, newspapers, magazines and companies. martinaleykamm.de

Numerous children’s and gift books by Thomas Endl have been published by well-known publishing houses. Some of his books were named “Book of the Month” by the German Academy for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Yet he actually trained as a journalist and filmed documentaries for television as a director. He has dreamlike conditions for…