I am originally from Munich, where I grew up and went to school.
If I had to pinpoint at one thing that sparked my interest in art, it would definitely be growing up with my two brothers. All three of us were very passionate about drawing and comic books. This passion has stayed with me ever since.
After school, I trained as a tailor at the Bavarian State Opera. Moving to Berlin to study fashion design at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee inspired my first graphic novel, Herrengedeck, which I self-published in 2008. A year of Erasmus studies at ESA Saint-Luc in Brussels resulted in my first publication in France: Les Pieds Dans Le Béton. This book was created in collaboration with scenarist Nicolas Wouters, with whom I also produced a second book, Totem. I then started writing my own scenarios, resulting in my last three graphic novels: The Thud, Golden Boy and Nirvana is here. I also regularly give comic workshops and perform live readings.
I live and work in Berlin.
Grants
2024 Arbeitsstipendium from the German Literature Fund
2023 Finalist of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation
2023 Comic scholarship from the Berlin Senate Department of Culture
2021 Research Scholarship Berlin
2018 Comic Scholarship from the Berlin Senate Department of Culture
2015 Scholarship from the Fédération Wallonie
Workshops
2025 Africomics workshop – Goethe Institute Kinshasa, Kongo
2024 Comic workshop at Junges Literaturbüro – Lüneburg
2024 Comic workshop at Kunsthochschule Kassel – Kassel
2023 Comic Workshops at Adolf-Glaßbrenner Schule – Berlin
2023 Comic Workshops at Schule am Röderplatz – Berlin
2023 Comic Ag at Hans-Rosenthal School – Berlin
2022 Comic course at Jugendkunstschule Charlottenburg – Berlin
2021/2022 AFRICOMICS workshops at Goethe Institutes in Accra, Ghana – Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire – Dakar, Senegal
2019 8th Hamburg Graphic Novel Days, Literaturhaus – Hamburg
2019 Graphic storytelling at the SRH University of Applied Sciences for Communication and Design – Berlin
2016 – 2018 Comic workshops with Maki Shimizu at Hans-Rosenthal School – Berlin
2018 Comic workshop COZI Comic and Zine Festival – Frankfurt
2017 The Place of My Dreams, Workshop at Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Youth Art School – Berlin
2016 Live drawing and workshop at Modern Graphics – Berlin
2015-2016 Welcome Comic, Workshops for refugees at the Alexander Pushkin School – Berlin
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
2025 Peng Award for der verkehrte Himmel as Best German-Language Comic 2025, Comicfest Munich
2025 Premio Boscarto for der verkehrte Himmel as best foreign-language comic 2025, Treviso Comic Book Festival
2025 Luchs Award for der verkehrte Himmel
2025 INK Award, for Golden Boy, EuregioKultur e.V
2025 Nomination, der verkehrte Himmel, Prix Lycéen, Festival de BD Colomiers
2025 Shortlisted for the Prix Révélation ADAGP for Der verkehrte Himmel, Quai des Bulles Festival, Saint Malo
2025 der verkehrte Himmel, selected for The White Ravens
2020 Max und Moritz Award for The Thud as Best German-Language Comic
2019 Nomination, The Thud for Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
2019 “Rudolph Dirks Award” for The Thud in the categories Social Drama / Slice of Life
2017 Nomination, Prix Révélation ADAGP for Totem, Quai des Bulles Festival, Saint Malo
2017 Rudolph Dirks Award for Totem in the category Youth Drama / Coming of Age
2016 “Pépite des Grands” for Totem in the Bande Dessinée category at the Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse Montreuil
LECTURES / READINGS
2025 Reading at the Amerika Gedenk Bibliothek (American Memorial Library)
2025 Reading at the Klingspor Museum, Offenbach
2025 Reading at the Literaturhaus Wien (Literature House Vienna), Austria
2025 Reading at the Literaturhaus Stuttgart (Literature House Stuttgart)
2024 Reading at the Literaturhaus Köln (Literature House Cologne)
2024 Reading at the Literaturhaus Lüneburg (Literature House Lüneburg)
2022 Reading at the City and State Library – Dortmund
2021 Guest lecture at Kassel University of Applied Sciences
2019 Reading at the Amerika Memorial Library – Berlin
2019 Reading at the Literatuhaus Hamburg
2018 Guest lecture at Hanover University of Applied Sciences
2016 Lecture at the International Literature Festival Berlin
Education
2007-2013 Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee (Diploma in Fashion Design)
2010 École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc, Brussels (Erasmus, Bande Dessinée department)
2004-2007 Apprenticeship at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (costume department)
2004 Abitur at Adolf-Weber Gymnasium
ARTIST RESIDENCYS
2026 Czech Literary Centre, Prague, Czech Republic
2012 At the Maison des auteurs, Angoulême, France
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Exibition at the Comicfestival Munich
2024 Exibition at Lustr, Prague, Czech Republic
2020 The Best German Comics – Traveling Exhibition of the Winners of theMax and Moritz Prize at the Erika Fuchs House, Schwarzenbach an der Saale
2020 Fast Fashion. The Dark Side of Fashion at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin
2020 Duo exhibition with Antonia Kühn at the Goethe Institute, Lyon
2020 Beethoven Comic: The New Music commissioned by the Berlin State Library
2019 Allüren at the Goldstein Gallery, Frankfurt
2019 Isla Negra at the Kombinat für Bild und Text, Berlin
2019 Graphic Worlds: in the making at The Fact-Finder-Kunstraum – Berlin
2018 Group exhibition as part of Comic Invasion at the Museum for Communication Berlin
2015 Solo exhibition at the Rote Flora as part of the Comic Festival Hamburg
2014 Duo exhibition with Mikkel Sommer at the Comic Salon Erlangen
2014 Duo exhibition with Mikkel Sommer as part of the International Literature Festival, at Freies Museum Berlin