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…
Authors & Illustrators
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
Eleonora Pace is an Italian based illustrator, specialized in picture books and school books. She also works as an art teacher at La Bottega del cigno in Padua, where she gives painting courses for children and adults. eleonorapace.wordpress.com
on 22 February 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
Mele Brink was born in Bielefeld in 1968, spent her youth in the East Westphalian hinterland and came to Aachen to study architecture. After successfully completing her degree in the form of a mobile memorial for Lady Di, however, she preferred to go freelance as an illustrator in 1998. Since then, she has produced mainly…
on 19 September 2021
Born in 1978, after graduating from high school and learning a “decent” profession, Andrea Lienesch has concentrated entirely on writing and reading aloud since 2018. To give the characters from her books a voice of their own, she has had herself trained by a vocal coach. She can’t sing or dance and hasn’t studied anything…
on 19 September 2021
David Füleki was born and raised in the Ore Mountains. As a child, he tried his hand at carving traditional Christmas decorations, but this led to such a high demand for sticking plasters that he switched to drawing. Later he studied media sciences and began working full-time as a comic artist and illustrator.
on 19 September 2021
Stephanie Marian finds her inspiration in everything that is beautiful. She studied design with a focus on illustration at the MSD – Münster School of Design. Animal whisperer | Word wit and irony | Heartily laugh. Also out loud. | Actually an owl. Now mother and lark. | Passionate chocolate and art eater.
on 19 September 2021
Andrea Weisbrod, born in Koblenz in 1966, did her doctorate in history on the political role of mistresses in the 18th century. In 2000, she moved with her family from Hamburg to Paris and gained some experience in journalism, after which she wrote her first novels and children’s books. As a freelance author and teacher…
on 19 September 2021
Andrea Offermann, born in Cologne in 1980, studied illustration, animation design and printing technology in Los Angeles, Hamburg and Florence. Since then she has been working as a freelance illustrator, mainly for children’s and youth book publishers. Her work has won several awards, including the Youth Jury Prize of the Austrian Youth Book Prize and…
on 19 September 2021