Anke Feuchtenberger (born 1963, in East Berlin) is a German artist and cartoonist. She studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin. Since 1997, she has held a professorship for drawing at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. She is a mother and grandmother and lives and works in Hamburg and Vorpommern. [1] [2] [3]
Thomas Hürlimann is a Swiss playwright and novelist.
German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies often include classes on German culture, German history, and German politics in addition to the language and literature component. Common German names for the field are Germanistik, Deutsche Philologie, and Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft und Literaturwissenschaft. In English, the terms Germanistics or Germanics are sometimes used, but the subject is more often referred to as German studies, German language and literature, or German philology.
German comics are comics written in the German language or by German-speaking creators, for the major comic markets in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with spill-overs into the neighboring, but lesser, comic markets of Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and German-speaking Belgium.
Jutta Bauer is a German writer and illustrator of children's books. For her "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2010.
Nir Alon is an Israeli sculptor and an installation artist based in Hamburg.
Actus Tragicus, sometimes credited as Actus Comics or simply Actus, is a group of five Israeli comics artists founded in 1995 by Rutu Modan and Yirmi Pinkus. Other members include Batia Kolton, Itzik Rennert and Mira Friedmann.
Bête Noire is an international comics anthology published by Fantagraphics Books. While planned to be four issues, only the first issue was published.
Claudia Schmölders, also Claudia Henn-Schmölders is a German cultural scholar, author, and translator.
Anke Fuchs was a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She was Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health (1982) and Vice President of the Bundestag (1998–2002). From 2003 until 2010, she was the president of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
Elke Rehder is a German artist living in Barsbüttel Germany.
Jens Harzer is a German stage, film, and television actor. He began his career at the Munich Kammerspiele, and has been a member of the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg since 2009. He has appeared at the Salzburg Festival regularly since 2000. Harzer received prizes for roles on stage, in film and on television. He has been the bearer of the Iffland-Ring since March 2019.
Luise Adelaide Lavinia Schopenhauer, known as Adele Schopenhauer, was a German author. She was the sister of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and daughter of author Johanna Schopenhauer. Henriette Sommer and Adrian van der Venne were pseudonyms used by her.
Sandra Becker is a Berlin-based video artist.
Angelika Platen is a German photographer known internationally for her portraits of artists.
Birgit Weyhe, born 1969 in Munich, is a German cartoonist and illustrator.
Isabelle Schad is a German dancer and choreographer.
Karen Köhler is a German writer, playwright and actor.
Anke te Heesen (*1965) is a German historian of science and professor for the History of Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research focuses on the development and organization of knowledge in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Thomas Ott is a Swiss comic artist. His comics have been published in German-speaking countries, France, the United States, Spain, Denmark, Italy and other places.