In conversation with: Mita Mahato
Picture poems, collages, comics? Mita Mahato’s works cannot be easily assigned to a specific, defined category. And that is exactly what makes the examination of her works so exciting. Interspaces of great attraction emerge beyond the topics dealt with in the content. Mita describes herself as a poetry comix artist. She lives…
In conversation with: Veronika Muchitsch
There are books that find you. They don’t let you go. That’s exactly how I felt about the comic → “Cyberman” by Veronika Muchitsch. Such a clever reflection on observing and being observed, on drawing and being drawn. Above all, however, it is a moving study of solitude. In addition, the medium…
In conversation with: Cristóbal Schmal
There is news: I’ve asked colleagues, friends, and people who inspire me to do a little interview and talk to them about the importance of drawing, their approach to graphic storytelling, and their teaching concepts. I would like to share this exchange with you here in the coming weeks. We will start…
Publication: Support Magazine, issue #3
Issue #3 of the → Support Magazine is out! I am happy to be part of this issue with a drawing from the series “Greenhouse”. In it you can find a lot of artists I have been following and appreciating for a long time, like → Raphael Bader, → Sophie Artz, →…
ARD Kultur Creators Project: Connecting Stories – A ‘Graphic Venture’
In 2022, a great wish came true: Together with my dear colleague Lucie Langston, I was able to test the possibilities of collaborative storytelling and drawing. In cooperation with SWR, we implemented the project “Connecting Stories” as part of the ARD Kulturcreators. The result was seven short graphic essays in which we…
24h Comic Event at Literarisches Colloquium (LCB) Berlin 08.–09/10/2022 (24h)
A few weeks ago, on a golden October weekend, I took part in a 24h Comic Event. At the → Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB) at Wannsee. Everything was prepared here for me to get involved in an experiment that comic creators have been taking on for some time. Based on the idea of…
ARD Kultur Creators: We are the winners!!!
Together with my colleague → Lucie Langston, I am one of the winners of the ARD Ideas Competition. We are overjoyed to be able to realize our project “Connecting Stories” together with SWR and to now realize our short graphic essays on topics of women, from different biographical landscapes, in a drawing…
Review, Snail Eye Festival (Leipzig), 27.-29/05/2022
An inspiring weekend at the Snail Eye Festival Leipzig is behind me! It was a FESTival that more than deserved the name. What a great atmosphere, great readings, diverse, versatile positions and inspiring panels. The magazine for the festival turned out great! What a pleasure to be part of the Snail Eye…
Everything changed
As a freelance illustrator, I pursue the quiet nuances and stories of life under the motto “Between the lines”. To give these a form drives me. Unnoticed events, loud emotions and simultaneities I try to make speak in the form of silent comics or in serial works in their own visual narrative…