Katja Spitzer studied art history and history in Halle and illustration in Leipzig and in Luzern (Switzerland). Today she lives in Berlin, creating illustrations for books and teaching children and adults how to draw. www.katja-spitzer.de
Authors & Illustrators
Saša Stanišić was born 1978 in Višegrad (Yugoslawia) geboren; since 1992 he is living in Germany. His short stories and novels (Vor dem Fest, Herkunft a.o.) have been translated into more than 30 languages and he received countless awards, most notably the German Book Prize in 2019. Currently, he lives in Hamburg – and so does his son Nikolai,…
on 18 February 2021
Gitte Spee was born in Indonesia in 1950. When she was eleven years old, she moved to the Netherlands with her family. She studied illustration in Amsterdam. Since then she has illustrated numerous books for international publishers, in Germany she is particularly known for the pictures for Dagmar Chidolue’s Millie books.
on 17 February 2021
Bernadette Vermeij was born in Woerden in the Netherlands in 1979. She works for the Dutch foundation for children who are deaf or hard of hearing in Amsterdam. She is particularly interested in the promotion of language development in children. Let’s Build a Hut! is her first children’s book.
on 17 February 2021
Thomas Kriebaum was born in Vienna in 1968. He lives and works in Vienna. He creates comical drawings for the Augustin or AutoTouring, among others. He received the Outstanding Artist Award 2010 in the category “Caricature and Comic”. https://www.derkriebaum.at/
on 14 February 2021
Rosemarie Eichinger came to Vienna to study history and still lives in Vienna today with her husband, daughter and snail. She works as a freelance writer and has received various awards and grants for her work.
on 14 February 2021
Katrine Clante, born in Copenhagen in 1973, grew up in the Danish countryside. She studied visual communication at the Danish School of Design and has been working as an illustrator since 2003. She has received various prestigious awards. www.katrineclante.dk
on 25 October 2020
Annette Herzog, born near Berlin in 1960, studied Danish and English at the University in Greifswald. She’s been living in Copenhagen since 1991. She has four grown children and has been writing children’s books and audio plays both in Danish and German. www.annetteherzog.com
on 25 October 2020
Katrin Stangl, born in 1977, studied at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art. She uses different techniques to illustrate her own and other authors’ texts. She has been a member of the artist group SPRING since 2009. She teaches drawing at the FH Aachen and gives workshops in Germany and abroad. Her works…
on 15 August 2020
Jennifer Bouron is a French illustrator. After studying fashion, Jennifer worked in children‘s fashion in the Netherlands for three years. She subsequently decided to become a freelance illustrator and print designer. Jennifer has been working with clothing brands such as Lazzari and Lucy & Yak, but also for magazines (Flow, Frankie) and stationery (Lagorn Design)…
on 1 April 2020
Lisa Maria Wagner was born in 1986. Studied psychology in Graz. Drawings for the theater play “No distance left to run”, (theater acme- / dramagraz), Graz 2013. In 2014 she founded the design label lisalottchen and participated in the design festival assembly from 2011 to 2014. Lisa is currently busy with colorful blackmail letters for…
on 29 March 2020
Lili la Baleine—Lili has been drawing from a young age and she didn‘t do much else. As she grew older, her drawing became less. Then she became a school teacher and wasn‘t able to draw at all! Until her nine-months transformation into a whale introduced Lili to traditional and soon after digital drawing. Now she…
on 26 March 2020
Born in 1966, Anna Schindler grew up in a house full of books in the Odenwald with four siblings. She was deeply impressed by personal encounters with Astrid Lindgren and Michael Ende. At the age of 14, she moved to Switzerland. She wrote stories, a play and read. Since 2015, she has immersed herself as…
on 22 March 2020
Katrin Dageför was born in 1966. Following her A-levels, she lived in Montreal for a year, then went to Krefeld to study Graphic Design. Once she had obtained her diploma, she looked for a job in Hamburg, where she worked as Art Director in various advertising agencies. After her parental leave she dedicated herself entirely…
on 22 March 2020
Klaus Ensikat, born in 1937, is one of Germany’s most brilliant illustrators. He won numerous awards for his works. In 1996, he was honoured for all his contributions to children’s literature with the most important internationalmark of honour: the Hans-Christian-Andersen Award. Between 1995 and 2003, Klaus Ensikat held a professorship at the Hamburg Academy of…
on 22 March 2020
Christine Schulz-Reiss (born in 1956) is an author of Children’s books as well as a freelance journalist. She studied history, politics and Communication Sciences in Erlangen and Munich. Afterwards she worked as a political editor and journalist, until she became self-employed in 1991. She is known for her popular series of Children’s Non-fiction books »Who…
on 22 March 2020
Raffaela Schöbitz is a freelance illustrator and author from Vienna. Her graphic novel The Blissful Islands appeared as part of the five-volume debut novel People are Sitting at the Edge of the World Laughing (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2018). In addition to graphic novels, she mainly illustrates children’s books, but also record covers or illustrations for magazines….
on 16 March 2020
Lena Hesse is a German illustrator and graphic artist who mainly works in the field of picture and children’s books. She is a trained media designer for digital and print media and studied design at the Münster University of Applied Sciences and at the Escuela de Arte y Diseño in Valencia. Lena Hesse lives in…
on 15 March 2020
Juan Feliu Sastre (Mallorca, 1971), a versatile artist, studied Engineering, Technical Architecture as well as Geography and History. Founder of the Mallorcan band Vacabou (2002-2014), in which he played an instrument and was a composer, he has collaborated with writers such as Agustín Fernández Mallo, with whom he created the group Frida Laponia, or Bernardí…
on 11 March 2020
Lisa Biggi was born in Italy in 1975. After completing her studies in Philosophy, Lisa Biggi discovered the pleasure of writing and has experimented with it in many ways. She participates in poetry contests and contributes to literary magazines. She has published a book of tragicomic stories and several children’s albums. Lisa writes at night…
on 11 March 2020