Authors & Illustrators

Birge Tetzner would like to go on a journey through time herself. Unfortunately, no one has invented a suitable time key yet. So she sends the archaeologist’s son Fred on a journey into the past. Birge loves to look for stories in history. When she is not dreaming up a new adventure for Fred, she…

Birgit Schössow is from Hamburg and studied Illustration at the Fachschochschule für Gestaltung in Hamburg. She now lives on the Baltic Sea and illustrates, designs, writes texts, makes animations and also the music for children and adults. Some of her covers for “The New Yorker” have been published in the “Society of illustrators”, New York…

Maurèen Poignonec was born in the summer of 1992 from the union of an Italian and a Breton. Since then, she loves Italian cuisine. She lives and works in Poissy in the studio that is her room, and vice versa. In November 2014, during her final year at the Corvisart School of Graphic Arts in…

No longer a journalist, nor a columnist for children’s literature, but still a Breton, Sandra Le Guen now devotes herself to writing fiction. Energetic, poetic, optimistic, sensitive, funny or committed, her stories play the strings of sensitivity and emotions. Author of A l’horizon published by Maison Eliza in 2018, she has since published books with…

Sibylle Wulff studied “Conservation and Restoration of Paintings and Polychrome Sculptures” in Stuttgart and Newcastle. Since 2007, she has been in charge of the over 600-year-old Custody / Art Collection of the University of Leipzig as a restorer.

Fabienne Meyer studied “Conservation and Restoration of Art on Paper, Library and Archive Materials” in Stuttgart. She did her doctorate on pollutants in museums and works as a restorer at the Museum of Prints and Drawings of the National Museums in Berlin.

Martina Leykamm studied communication design in Nuremberg and London. She has lived in Berlin since 2000 and works as a freelance illustrator for book publishers, newspapers, magazines and companies. martinaleykamm.de

Numerous children’s and gift books by Thomas Endl have been published by well-known publishing houses. Some of his books were named “Book of the Month” by the German Academy for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Yet he actually trained as a journalist and filmed documentaries for television as a director. He has dreamlike conditions for…

Katinka Manzau-Feddern is a freelance designer and illustrator. After studying textile design at the State Academy of Fine Arts, she discovered a love for illustrations and the collage technique. A few years ago, she also discovered the joy of teaching and offers workshops for collage techniques. In addition to working in the free artistic field,…

Malene Walter, born in Soltau in 1991, completed her training as a businesswoman for marketing communication and subsequently built up an internet community. She worked as a child minder in a rural family hotel and while doing so opened her online shop for art prints and commissioned works. Eventually, she ventured into self-employment and has…

FRANZ SUESS, * 1961, lives and works in Vienna. In 2018 he was a finalist with Paul Two at the Leibinger Stiftung Comic Book Prize Stuttgart (2019 also a finalist with Schlieren), in the same year he received the Romulus Candea Prize for his picture book Last Night (Luftschacht 2018, text: Elisabeth Führlinger).   Published…

Joséfine Mjahed is a French illustrator. She prints some of her illustrations in silkscreen, a technique that allows her to obtain bright and vivid colours that perfectly match her graphic universe. She also creates illustrations for the cultural sector and more recently for the press and radio. www.malijo.fr

Kaleidoscube is a German development studio from Stuttgart with a strong focus on narration and atmosphere. The team met while studying together at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and has since worked on various (animation) films and interactive projects. “A Jugglers Tale” is their first own video game, which is available for PC and consoles and has…

Michaela Konrad, born in Graz in 1972, lives and works in Vienna and Santa Cruz (Tenerife). She received her artistic training at the Centro Municipal de Arte Gráfico in Santa Cruz, with the draughtsman Tommi Kuehberger and she studied for a year at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Michaela Konrad’s work spans a…

Dörte Horn was born in 1978 and works as a freelance journalist and communications expert in Switzerland. The idea for the book came to her after her excavator-obsessed, poorly sleeping son Oskar could only say “excavator” for a long time and she therefore spent more time at construction sites than she would have liked.  

Corinna Böckmann already worked as a graphic designer and illustrator for various agencies during her school years. As a big fan of the North Sea, she moved to Hamburg for a few years during her studies. Today, the mother of three children lives near Cologne with her family and a fuzzy poodle. Together with Andrea…

Andrea Poßberg studied geography, sociology and political science (M.A.) in Düsseldorf, which took her as far as Siberia. She likes the beach and the sea, preferably with big waves. To relax, she swears by knotting her arms and legs in yoga. She lives in Grevenbroich with her publisher Südpol, husband and three children and developed…

The author Tàssies was born as Josep Antoni Tàssies Penella in Barbastro in Aragón, Spain, in 1963. He studied Journalism at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His drawings have been published in Spanish newspapers like El País (Madrid), La Vanguardia (Barcelona) and El Periódico de Catalunya (Barcelona), where he has drawn lengthy series of portraits…

Roser Rimbau was born in Girona, Spain in 1968. She is a former journalist, former corrector and former percussionist, but she has no intention to stop writing for children. In 2006 she received La Galera’s Comte Kurt award for En Naïm s’ha descolorit (Naïm has lost color). Takatuka also published her story, El Gol (The…

The Rosa Sardina Collective is made up of twelve illustrators from different backgrounds and experiences who coincided in the Illustration department at the Escola de la Dona in Barcelona, and who believe in collaborative work as a way to change the world. They use collage technique, where they use their drawings to create textures.