Binette Schroeder

Binette Schroeder (born December 5, 1939 in Hamburg ) is a German graphic artist and children's book illustrator.

Schroeder studied commercial art from 1957 to 1960 at a private school in Munich and from 1961 to 1966 at the School of Design in Basel. From 1968 to 1971 she lived as a freelance graphic designer, portrait photographer and illustrator in Berlin and since 1971 with her husband Peter Nickl in Munich.

Awards

• 1969 - Golden apple of the Biennale of Illustrations in Bratislava for Lupinchen
• 1980 - Honored for the American edition of Baron von Münchhausen's The Wonderful Journeys and Adventures as “Best Illustrated Children's Books of the Year” by the New York Times
• 1989 - Awarded the Badge of the Illustration Biennale in Bratislava
• 1990 - Troisdorf picture book prize for The Frog King
• 1997 - Award from the Book Art Foundation
• 1997 - Special Illustration Award of the German Youth Literature Award for her complete works
• 1998 - Nomination for the Hans Christian Andersen Prize for her complete works
• 2000 - Prix Octogone for her complete oeuvre
• 2003 - Nomination for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for her complete works
• 2004 - Grand Prize of the German Academy for Children's and Young People's Literature for their complete works
• 2012 - Bavarian Order of Merit
• 2014 - Nomination for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

Works (selection)

• 1969 - Lupinchen , Nord-Süd Verlag , Mönchaltorf, ISBN 3-8582-5088-0 / ISBN 3-8582-5012-0 , OCLC 469961225 .
• 1970 - Archibald and his little red , Ellermann Verlag , Munich, DNB 458889520
• 1971 - Florian and Tractor Max (= north-south picture book ), Nord-Süd Verlag, Mönchaltorf / Hamburg, ISBN 3-85825-005-8 ; 15th revised edition NordSüd, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-314-01602-8 .
• 1972 - Lelebum. A rhyming and pictorial elephant story , Thienemann Verlag , Stuttgart, OCLC 61064650 ; 1977, ISBN 3-522-41070-1 .
• 1973 - with Peter Nickl (text): Ratatatam. The strange story of a little locomotive . Nord-Süd Verlag, Mönchaltorf, ISBN 3-85825-037-6 .
  • Rommelebom: De avonturen van een kleine locomotief , Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, Utrecht / Antwerp 1973, DNB 577903683 OCLC 72358363 (Dutch).
  • Ra ta ta tam, the Strange Story of a Little Engine . Translated from the German by Michael Bullock, Cape, London 1983, ISBN 0-224-00974-5 .
• 1975 - with Peter Nickl (text): Krokodil Krokodil (= north-south picture book ), Nord-Süd-Verlag, Mönchaltorf / Hamburg, ISBN 3-85825-051-1 .
• 1977 - with Peter Nickl (text): The wonderful journeys and adventures of Freiherr von Münchhausen as he used to tell the same over a bottle in a circle of his friends, based on the versions of Rudolf Erich Raspe and Gottfried August Bürger : Die Landablebnis , Nord-Süd -Publisher, Mönchaltorf / Hamburg; NordSüd, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-314-10150-2 .
• 1981 - Zebby Books (five small-format cardboard picture books ), original editions at Walker Books, London
• 1982 - The shadow sewing machine (pictures for texts by Michael Ende), Thienemann Verlag
• 1982 - The dreaming house. A walk through the night (text by Peter Nickl), Weitbrecht Verlag
• 1983 - Tuffa Books (five small-format cardboard picture books ), original English edition at Walker Books, London
• 1986 - Beauty and the Beast. Mme Leprince de Beaumont (text by Anne Carter), original edition from Walker Books, London
• 1989 - The Frog King or the Iron Heinrich (text by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm), NordSüd Verlag.
• 1993 - The full moon legend (with a text by Michael Ende), Weitbrecht
• 1997 - Angels and other poultry. An advent calendar for painting, handicrafts and cutting , Rowohlt Verlag
• 1999 - Laura , NordSüd Verlag
• 2009 - Ritter Rustig & Ritter Rostig , NordSüd Verlag, Zurich ISBN 978-3-314-01701-8 .
• 2014 - Der Zauberling , NordSüd, Zurich ISBN 978-3-314-10243-1 .

Secondary literature (selection)

• Fedor Bochow : Binette (Elisabeth) Schroeder . In: Children's and Youth Literature . A lexicon. Founded by Alfred Clemens Baumgärtner and Heinrich Pleticha , edited by Kurt Franz a . a. Corian , Meitingen 1995- loose-leaf edition , OCLC 706992204 (= 16th supplement October 2002, 31 pages).
• The Art of Binette Schroeder (= A Michael Neugebauer Book ), Michael Neugebauer Verlag , Gossau ZH 1995, ISBN 1-558-58510-9 / ISBN 3-85195-372-X OCLC 604331107 , (German / English).

Web links

• Literature by and about Binette Schroeder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Binette Schroeder - biography and work (PDF; 78 kB)
• Binette Schroeder - Biogram at Edition text + kritik.
• Book review by Laura