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Petra Steckelmann

Petra Steckelmann was born in 1970. She worked in a variety of jobs after finishing school and today writes children’s books. She lives in Hamburg.

Susan Niessen

Susan Niessen was born in the Rhineland region of Germany in 1967. She studied English, German and psychology at Bonn University and worked for fifteen years as an editor for a number of children’s book publishers. Today she lives and works as a freelance author and editor in the Münsterland region.

Astrid Henn

Astrid Henn was born in Aachen and after studying visual communications worked as an art director for various advertising agencies in Hamburg, and as a freelance designer and illustrator. She has been working exclusively as an illustrator for some years now and enjoys illustrating children’s books best. She lives with her family in Hamburg.

Frauke Nahrgang

Frauke Nahrgang was born in Stadtallendorf (Hesse) in 1951. She teaches at a junior school and has published over 50 books for children and teenagers.

Hedwig Munck

Hedwig Munck was born in Mircovac, Yugoslavia in 1955 and she grew up in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. After gaining her Abitur, the German university-entrance diploma, she studied to become an art and maths teacher in Reutlingen and later also visual communications at Berlin’s College of Fine Arts. Since 1981, she and her husband have produced several cartoons for children’s television. In 199...

Katharina Wieker

Katharina Wieker was born in 1964 and worked in cartoon studios for some years before turning to illustrating children’s books. She lives with her daughter in Berlin.

Anne Steinwart

Tina Nagel

Tina Nagel was born in 1977 and studied graphic design in Trier, where she specialised in book design and illustration. She has been working as a freelance graphic artist and illustrator since 2004 and lives in Berlin and Vienna.

Marc-Alexander Schulze

Marc-Alexander Schulze was born in 1977 and studied illustration and communication design at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. Before studying, he had already gained practical experience at the publishing group Milchstraße. He has been working as a freelance illustrator since 2004.

Stéffie Nasution

Dagmar Henze

Dagmar Henze was born in Stade in 1970 and studied art in Hamburg. Since 1996, she has been working as an illustrator of children’s and youth books.

Eleni Zabini

Margret Rettich

Margret Rettich, born in 1926 in Stettin, is a well-known and busy illustrator and author of children's books. After studying Graphic Arts at the Kunstschule in Erfurt she worked as a freelancer in advertising, for publishers of children's books and school books, for magazines and for the television. Her books were frequently awarded, among others by Stiftung Buchkunst in the category "Die schöns...

Susanne Wechdorn

Susanne Wechdorn was born in Klosterneuburg near Vienna and followed up a degree in law by studying at the Higher Graphic Instruction and Experimental Institute in Vienna. She has been working as a freelance illustrator since 1990. Susanne Wechdorn illustrates school and children’s books for many German and some Austrian publishing houses.