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.
Authors & Illustrators
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
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
Rüdiger Bertram lives with his family in Cologne, where he makes his living writing books for children and young people. He has been doing this for almost 20 years, but he has never written a unicorn book. That’s how the idea for Glitzerbande came about, because Rüdiger Bertram is a big unicorn fan. Really true…
on 6 March 2022
Selim Özdogan was born in Cologne in 1971. He wanted to become a writer even as a child. Since 1995 he has published novels, stories, audio books and has received numerous prizes and scholarships. The Ant and the Frog is his first children’s book.
on 6 March 2022
Clara Sophie Klein (born 1995) grew up in Copenhagen and grew up even more in Bonn. She studied design at Münster University of Applied Sciences with a focus on illustration and has been working freelance ever since. She is a part-time bartender, hobby cellist, full-time illustrator with a focus on book illustration and editorial.
on 6 March 2022
Ernst Kahl, born 1949 , is an author, painter and musician. His cartoons have appeared in Pardon, Konkret and Titanic, among others. Kahl was awarded the First Prize of the Cartoonale Düsseldorf, the Wilhelm Busch Prize, the Göttingen Elk and the Filmband in Gold for the screenplay of the Detlev Buck film “Wir können auch…
on 6 March 2022
Will Gmehling, born in 1957, painted pictures for adults for a long time until he started writing books for children. In 1998 his first children’s book Tiertaxi Wolf & Co. was published by Sauerländer Verlag. Many picture and children’s books followed, which were translated into numerous languages. The children’s novel Freibad [The Lido] received several…
on 6 March 2022
Lisa Rammensee was born in Nuremberg in 1990 and is proud of her Franconian roots. Via Trier, where her communication design studies gave her a lot of helpful knowledge about design and layout, she finally came to Hamburg. There she is working on her Master’s degree in illustration at the HAW. Her heart beats for…
on 18 February 2022
Sandra Grimm lives in northern Germany with her husband and children. She has been writing books for young and older children for many years. When wild capybaras or other adventurous creatures come in and tell her stories, she likes to write them down for curious reading children.
on 18 February 2022
Thais Mesquita was born in Brazil in 1989 and has lived in Germany for several years. She studied fine arts in her home country and media art and design at Bauhaus University-Weimar and has been working as a freelance illustrator, designer and 2D artist since 2011. She likes to experiment with different materials, textures and…
on 18 February 2022
Corinna Antelmann, born in Bremen in 1969, has lived in Upper Austria since 2006. She studied literature and film at the University of Hildesheim and worked as a freelance author, dramaturge and lecturer after positions at the Theaterwerkstatt Hannover and Trickompany Hamburg. She has published novels, plays, essays and received numerous scholarships and prizes for…
on 18 February 2022
Katharina Bendixen, born in Leipzig in 1981, studied book science and Hispanic studies in Leipzig and Alicante and lives in Leipzig with her family. She writes books for children and adults. Her texts have been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships, including the Kranichsteiner Literature Promotion Prize (2014), the Heinrich Heine Scholarship (2017) and a working…
on 10 February 2022
Elizabeth Knox is an adventurous and imaginative fiction writer who has published several novels for adults and children, as well as autobiographical novellas. Her writing is never static, and moves from historical drama, to science fiction, to memoir. Her novel, The Vintner’s Luck, first published in 1998, was a huge success with readers and critics…
on 10 February 2022
Alexandra Prischedko was born in 1989 in Zitomir, Ukraine. She studied communication design at Trier University of Applied Sciences and on an Erasmus scholarship at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. She works as an independent communication designer and illustrator. She also teaches drawing and typographic design at Trier University of Applied…
on 22 January 2022
Volker Präkelt, born in Recklinghausen in 1956, is the creative head of the science series “Marvi Hämmer”, broadcast by the German tv channels ZDF and KI.KA. Today he works as a freelance author and director for books, audio books and television. He has penned the nine titles in the non-fiction series BAFF!, among others. Limbradur…
on 6 December 2021