Béatrice Rodriguez was born in 1969 and lives in a little town in the French Department Nièvre. She studied Art in Strasbourg and today works as a freelance illustrator for many renowned publishing houses, e.g. Actes Sud Junior, Lito, Bayard, Milan and Nathan. Her picture book The Chicken Thief was a great success in Germany and other…
Authors & Illustrators
Isabel Pin was born in 1974 in Versailles, she studied illustration and painting in New York, Salzburg, Hamburg and Paris. Her work has been presented in exhibitions in Bologna and Paris. Among the awards that Isabel Pin’s books have won are: Austrian Children’s and Young Adult Book Award, First Prize of hte Institute Charles Perrault…
on 15 June 2015
Christiane Pieper is a well known German illustrator for whom illustrating children’s books is a dream vocation. She has worked for some of Germany’s most prestigious publishing houses, and has illustrated over 40 books in all, receiving among other recognitions, the Troisdorf Bilderbuchpreis. She is particularly interested in capturing moods and movement in her pictures…
on 15 June 2015
Eva Muggenthaler was born 1971 in Fürth, studied Illustration in Hamburg. Her picture books Der Schäfer Raul and Der weiße und der schwarze Bär were both nominated for the German Youth Literature Award.
on 15 June 2015
Thomas M. Müller, born in 1966, studied at the HGB in Leipzig and at the School of Design in Lucerne. In 2005 he became a professor at his Alma Mater in Leipzig. Apart from illustrating books, he has also designed posters, cartoons and graphics. An artist of international renown, his works have been part of…
on 15 June 2015
Tobias Krejtschi, born in 1980 in Dresden, studied Illustration in Hamburg. Still a student he won different illustration contests. Clever Mama Sambona, his first picture book, was nominated for the “Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis“ (German Youth Literature Award) and won the Troisdorf Picture Book Award. Illustrator’s own website
on 15 June 2015
Ulf K. was born in 1969 in Oberhausen, Germany, right in the heart of the Ruhrgebiet. It was there, in the shadows of the blast furnaces, that he spent his childhood and adolescence, as well as studied graphic design at the University of Essen. In 1996, he was briefly pulled to Paris, but became so…
on 15 June 2015
Werner Holzwarth was born in 1947 near Stuttgart, attended school there, and then studied at the Berlin University of the Arts. Before finding international success as a children’s author with The Story of the Little Mole Who Went in Search of Whodunit, he worked as a copywriter, as the creative group head of a major advertising agency,…
on 15 June 2015
Wolf Erlbruch was born in Wuppertal in 1948. He studied graphic design at the Folkwangschule für Gestaltung in Essen. After graduating in 1974 he worked as a freelance illustrator in the advertising industry. Since the end of the 1980s Erlbruch has been writing and illustrating children’s books. In 1990 he was appointed a professor at…
on 15 June 2015
Antje Damm was born in Wiesbaden in 1965, she studied architecture in Wiesbaden, worked and lived as a freelance architect in Berlin and Nuremberg and today lives near Gießen with her husband and their four daughters. One senses her strong bond to children and their way of thinking in her books. Her question book Ask Me! has…
on 15 June 2015
Nadia Budde was born in Berlin in 1967. After completing secondary school she apprenticed as a retail display designer. She began studying graphic arts at the Berlin College of Art in Weissensee in 1992 and later studied at the Royal College of Art in London. She completed her degree in 2000 and since then has…
on 15 June 2015
Aljoscha Blau was born in St. Petersburg in 1972 and studied illustration and graphic arts in Hamburg. He has had exhibitions in Paris, New York, Hamburg and Bologna and has illustrated numerous picture books. Two of his books were awarded the “Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis” and his book Rote Wangen (Aufbau Verlag) received the Bologna Ragazzi Award….
on 15 June 2015
Rotraut Susanne Berner was born in Stuttgart in 1948. She studied graphic design at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. After completing her studies she worked in advertising, and has worked independently as a graphic designer and illustrator since 1977. She has very successfully illustrated many books, including such works as “Sonntagskind” by Gudrun Mebs…
on 15 June 2015
Sonja loves painting pictures and telling stories. After studying and working some years as a graphic designer in her hometown Munich and Brussels, she decided to pack her suitcase and move to Barcelona to study Illustration at the “Llotja” Arts and Crafts School. Since then she lives between brushes and all kinds of wonderful tales, working…
on 23 January 2015
Tobias Krejtschi, born in 1980 in Dresden, studied Illustration in Hamburg. Still a student he won various illustration contests. Clever Mama Sambona (Die schlaue Mama Sambona), his first picture book, was nominated for the German Children’s Literature Award and has also won the Troisdorf Picture Book Award. www.tobiaskrejtschi.de
on 18 December 2014
Susanne Göhlich, born in Jena in 1972, lives in Leipzig. She started drawing whilst studying History of Art in Leipzig and stuck to it. Today she works as a freelance illustrator of posters, children’s and school books. Moritz Verlag published her board book “Words of the Bible” and Klett Kinderbuch her illustrations to the splendid…
on 18 December 2014
Ina Krabbe was born in Bremen in 1967. She studied history, philosophy, economics and architecture and worked in a book shop and a PR agency before she started doing what she had always liked best. drawing and writing.. She lives and works in a small village near Bremen with her wife, children and three chickens….
on 15 August 2014
was born in Volksdorf, a suburb of Hamburg, in 1955. She studied illustration at the Hamburg University for Applied Sciences from 1975 until 1981. In 1980 she became a member of a group of illustrators in Hamburg, the “Hamburger Illustratorengruppe”. She published her first picture books in 1981, worked for various publishing houses and magazines,…
on 21 July 2014
born in Wiesbaden in 1965, she studied architecture in Wiesbaden, worked and lived as a freelance architect in Berlin and Nuremberg and today lives near Gießen with her husband and their four daughters. One senses her strong bond to children and their way of thinking in her books. Her question book Ask Me! has been translated into…
on 21 July 2014
Henning Wagenbreth, born in Eberswalde in 1962, is Professor for Illustration and Graphic Design and the University of Arts in Berlin. His picture book Moon and Morning Star was awarded the “Golden Letter” as part of the international competition “Most beautiful books from around the world” and the first prize as “The most beautiful German…
on 25 October 2013