Nanen García-Contreras was born in Guadix (Granada). She obtained a degree in Fine Arts specializing in painting in Granada and later studied Design and Printmaking in Seville. She currently combines her passion for telling stories through images with teaching visual arts in secondary schools and also with ceramics, animation, sculpture, engraving… She understands creation as…
Authors & Illustrators
Florian Pigé is a graduate of the Émile Cohl School of Fine Arts in Lyon. During his time there, he discovered his passion for children’s literature. In his work, he focuses on the simplicity of form and explores different materials. In 2019, the original “Si petit” was given to all children born or adopted there…
on 4 April 2021
Matze Döbele was born in 1975 in the Black Forest and knows about roots, mushrooms and Pine cones therefore look great. His illustrations were awarded and exhibited internationally. He lives and works as a freelance Illustrator with his family in Hamburg. www.derdoebele.de
on 25 March 2021
Stefanie Kolb has been passionate about drawing since she was a child, preferably tousled animals and all kinds of people. After studying art in Mainz and training as a computer graphic artist in Berlin, she went on to illustrate for various companies, publishing houses, advertising and film agencies. Today she lives as a freelance illustrator…
on 25 March 2021
Anja Günther was born in Zwickau in 1982 and studied architecture in the Vogtland. Here she learned and discovered not only the design of buildings, but also her passion for graphic design and illustration. And so she has been working on various creative projects for many years. Through her daughters, she discovered her love for…
on 25 March 2021
Henrike Lippa-Wagenmann was born in 1983. She’s an enthusiastic musician and lives and works with her husband, dog and turtle on the edge of the forest in Gütersloh. She discovered her love for music as a child and since 2005 she has been running the integrative art and music school in her hometown. Besides making…
on 25 March 2021
The illustrator Britta Bolle loves to create new worlds and prefers not to look at the world through adult eyes. After studying illustration in the Netherlands, she returned to Germany in 2013, where she now lives and works. She has found her professional passion by specializing in illustrations for children. brittabolle.de
on 25 March 2021
Anna Aparicio Català (Barcelona, 1991) has a degree in Fine Arts (majoring in Drawing) from the University of Barcelona and studied illustration at the Escola de la Dona de Barcelona (Women’s School of Barcelona). She combines her work as an illustrator with that of an assistant in the children’s section of a public library. She…
on 23 March 2021
Hanna Jansen is an author with commitment and passion. Fourteen children from all over the world, mostly from Africa, found a new home with her and her husband. She is particularly interested in the question of how people from very different origins and cultures can live together and enrich one another. After most of her children…
on 21 March 2021
Andrea Karimé, born in 1963, grew up in Kassel between the German and Lebanese language and culture. She studied art and Music education, trained in creative writing and as a storyteller and worked as a teacher. She was awarded the Austrian Children’s Literature Award for Tee mit Onkel Mustafa (Picus, 2011), and the Children’s Book…
on 21 March 2021
Verena Hochleitner was born in Vienna in 1969 and studied Graphic Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. For many years she has enjoyed living in Vienna with a view of the flak tower in Augarten. She is a freelance graphic artist, illustrator and author, mainly illustrating children’s books and designing books.
on 9 March 2021
Nicolas Gorny actually wanted to become a superhero as a child. But since neither an intergalactic magic ring nor the bite of a radioactive spider gave him the desired powers, he had to follow a different destiny. Today he writes and illustrates children’s books, collects comic books and is known as the “world’s worst dancer”….
on 26 February 2021
Frank Maria Reifenberg is a trained bookseller and has been writing books for children and young people since 2003. He has been awarded the Leipzig Reading Compass several times and has been nominated for the German-French Children’s Book Prize and the Catholic Children’s Book Prize. His books have been translated into many languages. frankmariareifenberg.wordpress.com
on 26 February 2021
Sonja Kurzbach was born in East Frisia in 1983 and moved to Bremen after graduating from high school, where she trained and worked as a media designer. In 2013, she won a scholarship to AID Berlin through a competition, which eventually drew her to the capital. Away from the drawing table, she loves karate, screen…
on 26 February 2021
Michael Roher, * 1980 in Lower Austria, trained as a social worker in Vienna. His love for the circus, for drawing and design as well as for working with people determines his activities and projects. He has received numerous awards for his children’s books, including: Dixi Children’s Literature Prize, Romulus Candea Prize, Illustration Prize of…
on 25 February 2021
Nicole Mahne was born in Verl, East Westphalia in 1972. She had to struggle through a difficult time at school before she was finally allowed to study German, linguistics and education. She has been working as a freelance editor and copywriter since 2006. She lives in Bielefeld with her husband, daughter, dog and cat. She…
on 22 February 2021
The artist and illustrator Katharina Naimer was born in Lower Bavaria in 1979. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Until 2017, she ran the children’s studio PABLiTO and worked mainly on art and creative projects with children, before she turned back to her own artistic work. Her work focuses on fairytale…
on 22 February 2021
Tine Schulz (* 1981), works as an illustrator and artist for publishers, magazines and organizations – preferably for children and everything that is fair, social, sustainable and makes the world a little better. After training as a media designer, a few years as a graphic designer and studying communication design, she now works as a…
on 18 February 2021
Dita Zipfel, born 1981, is a writer of illustrated childrens books, theater plays, screenplays and novels. She was just awarded with the German Youth Literature Award 2020 and the Korbinian – Paul Maar-Preis 2020. www.ditazipfel.de
on 18 February 2021
Finn-Ole Heinrich, born in 1982, is one of the most acclaimed young german authors. His short story collection die taschen voll wasser was published by mairisch Verlag in 2005, picking up enthusiastic reactions from readers and critics, as did his following books Räuberhände and Gestern war auch schon ein Tag. His books for children (published at Hanser Verlag and later…
on 18 February 2021