Leonard Erlbruch, born in Wuppertal in 1984, studied illustration at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. While still a student, he illustrated several children’s books, including Grandfather and the Wolves (Carl Hanser Verlag). Since graduating in 2013, he has worked as a freelance illustrator. Leonard Erlbruch’s Kinderzimmerkalender (Children’s Bedroom Calendar) has been published annually…
Authors & Illustrators
Claire Caillebotte is a graduate illustrator from HEAR (Haute école des arts du Rhin, Strasbourg). She works in the the area of children’s publishing, the press and documentary books. Her favourite technique is gouache which she sometimes mixes with coloured pencils. Claire is also a harpist, and plays and gives harp lessons in Strasbourg. www.clairecaillebotte.com
on 28 August 2022
Friederike Dammermann, born in Braunschweig in 1972, studied Art and German in Hamburg and Bremen with stays abroad in New York, Paris and Nimes. Besides her job as a teacher in Flensburg, she writes and illustrates children’s books. “An Elephant in Our Town” won the silver medal of the Key Colours Award 2020 in Belgium….
on 28 August 2022
Heike Herold lives and works in Cologne. Since receiving her diploma, she has worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator for various publishers. Among other awards, she received the Troisdorf Picture Book Scholarship in 2016. Heike Herold gives workshops and has participated in exhibitions at home and abroad with her illustrations. heikeherold.jimdofree.com
on 28 August 2022
Brigitte Schär is a writer, performer and singer. She travels the world with her multimedia reading programmes. Her books and CDs for children and adults have been translated into 16 languages and have won many awards, including the Swiss Children’s Book Prize. The author lives in Zurich. www.brigitte-schaer.ch
on 28 August 2022
Nils Mohl, born in 1971, lives as a freelance writer and scriptwriter in his native city of Hamburg and owns a caravan on the North Sea island of Amrum. He has been awarded numerous prizes for his work, including the German Children’s Literature Award (2012), the Oldenburg Children’s and Youth Book Prize (2011), the Austrian…
on 19 August 2022
Regina Kehn was born in Hamburg in 1962 and studied illustration there. In 1989 she received adiploma in the field of children’s books. Since then she has been working as a freelance illustrator. Shehas already received several awards for her work.
on 17 August 2022
Laurel Snyder is a multi-award-winning American poet and children’s author. She has published eight novels for children and young adults, several picture books and two collections of poetry. Snyder teaches creative writing for children and young adults at Hamline University. Together with her family, she lives far from the sea, in Atlanta, Georgia.
on 15 August 2022
Andreas Völlinger grew up in the Ruhr region and has grown up to some extent. Already during his studies of communication science and English in Essen and Wellington/New Zealand, he wrote articles for various magazines, shot short films and wrote the texts for numerous comics. This was followed by an internship in script editing and…
on 15 August 2022
Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker was born 1982 in the Krems Valley, Austria. He studied in Vienna and runs the family farm. Kaiser-Mühlecker has won numerous awards for his literary work, including the Austrian State Prize. Siegfried Lenz said of Kaiser-Mühlecker’s work, “wonderful the way you write” and Peter Handke sees him “in a row with Stifter and…
on 15 August 2022
Juliette MacIver is the author of 18 picture books. She has received the Storylines Notable Book Award six times, and has had multiple nominations for awards in NZ, Australia and the U.S. She recently won Best Picture Book in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Juliette lives with her husband and four…
on 10 August 2022
Sarah Davis grew up in New Zealand. She won the 2009 Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Crichton Award for Best New Illustrator. She recently won Best Picture Book in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Sarah lives in Sydney, Australia.
on 10 August 2022
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.
on 9 March 2022
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.
on 9 March 2022
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,…
on 9 March 2022
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…
on 9 March 2022
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…
on 8 March 2022
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.
on 8 March 2022
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…
on 8 March 2022
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…
on 6 March 2022