Authors/Illustrators
Authors
Sonja Kaiblinger
Author
Sonja Kaiblinger was born in 1985 in Krems, Austria. She worked as an ice-cream seller, copywriter, night-watchman, airport employee and a commercial actress before she finally becoming a teacher. Her head is full of stories, and she spends every spare moment writing them down. Sonja Kaiblinger ...
MoreChristine Keil
Author
Christine Keil, born in 1969 in Berlin, has lived there ever since. She worked as a stewardess, loves travelling and children. After the birth of her own two children she started writing children's books and has published several books in cooperation with the photographer Bernhardt Link.
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Sonja Maren Kientsch
Author
Sonja Maren Kientsch was born in Hong Kong. She writes her stories in the kitchen, by the stove, out on the balcony or in her cosy caravan – usually early in the mornings when nobody is up and about apart from her and her cat Findus.
MoreAnna Lisa Kiesel
Author
Anna Lisa Kiesel, born in Graz in 1989, started reading and writing before leaving school and has hardly put down her pen since. She quickly abandoned her German studies, which she began at the age of 15, and instead trained as a photographer and worked as a freelance copywriter. She has since ...
MoreChristina Koenig
Author
Christina Koenig was born in Westfalia and today lives in a small village in East Germany. She has worked in several different jobs, was part of a puppetry and studied film in Berlin and Rio. Now, she is a passionate writer of books and film scripts.
MoreGerit Kopietz
Author
Gerit Kopietz and Jörg Sommer
both born in 1963, design and write all of their books as a team. Gerit Sommer works as a nursery school teacher, Jörg Sommer manages a PR agency. Gerit and Joerg have known each other from joint pedagogical work since their youth, are married and live together ...
Irmgard Kramer
Author
Irmgard Kramer was born in 1969 in Vorarlberg and grew up in an old house that felt alive. After nineteen years of being a primary school teacher, she threw away her chalks and now lives as a freelance author among mountains, cows and cheeses in Bregenzerwald. She writes stories for young and ...
MoreJoachim Krause
Author, Illustrator
Joachim Krause was born in 1968 in Kempen and now lives in Jever with his wife and three children. He studied graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences in Münster and has been a freelance illustrator of games and children's books for various publishers since 1997.
MoreHolde Kreul
Author
Holde Kreul was born in 1944 in Stettin. She studied psychology and has since focused primarily on children with challenges. For many years, she ran a daycare center for children with emotional disorders. Today, she has her own psychotherapy practice, working with both children and adults.
MoreAnne Krüger
Author
Anne Krüger was born in 1975 in the middle of the Cold War, just when one of the US Apollo capsules was joining up with a Soyuz capsule in space. After university, she worked in various land-based jobs before going independent as a radio-play author. This Open Mic finalist lives with her family ...
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