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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.

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…

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…