Birgit Weyhe

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Birgit Weyhe, born 1969 in Munich, is a German cartoonist and illustrator.

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Biography

Weyhe was born in Munich and spent her childhood in Uganda and Kenya. After taking the German college entrance exams, known as the Abitur, she returned at the age of nineteen to Germany and completed a Magister in German Literature and History in Konstanz and Hamburg. [1] From 2002 to 2008 she completed an additional course of study in illustration with Anke Feuchtenberger at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. [2]

Weyhe lives and works in Hamburg where she is also employed as a lecturer in the design department of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. [3]

In 2007 Weyhe competed in the Fumetto Comix-Festival in Lucerne obtaining the second place prize for the competition theme of Future and in 2009 she participated in the at Next-Comic Festival in Linz, taking home the first-place prize. [4]

For the Goethe Institute, Weyhe has organized workshops concerning her work in Montréal (Canada), Montevideo (Uruguay) and Córdoba (Argentina). [5] In 2012 she participated in a several week-long Goethe Institute exchange program for comics artists in São Paulo (Brazil) teil. [5] The Polish Goethe Institute recommends Birgit Weyhe's Graphic Novel Im Himmel ist Jahrmarkt as a primary material to support learning the German language and offers it in a didactically commented form for download on its homepage. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Anette Selg (2015-05-03). "Zwischen den Welten - Comicbuchpreis für "Madgermanes" von Birgit Weyhe". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 2015-06-05.
  2. ↑ News Online Journal der HAW Hamburg - Comicbuchpreis 2015 geht an Birgit Weyhe Archived 2015-05-18 at the Wayback Machine , Artikel von Kleist, 11. September 2014
  3. ↑ "Homepage der HAW Hamburg: Liste der Beschäftigten". Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  4. ↑ Bettina Wieselmann (2015-05-06). "Vom Reiz des Comicbuchs". Südwest Presse (in German). Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
  5. 1 2 Homepage of Birgit Weyhe
  6. ↑ Birgit Weyhes Graphic Novel Im Himmel ist Jahrmarkt auf der Homepage des Goethe-Instituts Polen
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