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…
Authors & Illustrators
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.
on 8 January 2023
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.
on 8 January 2023
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
on 8 January 2023
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…
on 8 January 2023
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,…
on 8 January 2023
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…
on 8 December 2022
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…
on 4 October 2022
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
on 2 October 2022
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…
on 27 September 2022
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…
on 26 September 2022
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.
on 14 September 2022
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…
on 13 September 2022
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…
on 13 September 2022
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…
on 11 September 2022
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…
on 9 September 2022
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.
on 9 September 2022
Lars Meyer was born between two seas in the far north of Germany. He studied law, but finds that writing fantastic stories is more exciting than harping on paragraphs. For him, comics are art, films a passion and books food for the soul. He keeps fit with bodyweight training and running in the woods –…
on 5 September 2022
Marie Doerfler (*1993 in Regensburg) is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. She studied communication and graphic design at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, Falmouth University and then illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. She currently lives and works in Regensburg and Vienna. Her illustrations are inspired by nature, the everyday and…
on 4 September 2022
Nele Brönner, born in Marburg/Lahn in 1977, lives and works as an illustrator, freelance artist and comic artist in Berlin. She studied visual communication at the UdK Berlin, the Politecnico di Milano and the Accademia di Brera. Her work is published in magazines, books and newspapers (taz, Le Monde diplomatique,Stadtaspekte). www.nelebroenner.com
on 4 September 2022