Birgit Weyhe

Birgit Weyhe (* 1969 in Munich ) is a German comic artist , illustrator and author of graphic novels .

Life

Birgit Weyhe was born in Munich and spent her childhood and youth in the East African countries Uganda and Kenya . After graduating from high school , she returned to Germany at the age of 19 and completed a master's degree in German literature and history in Konstanz and Hamburg . In the years 2002 to 2008 an additional study of illustration with Anke Feuchtenberger at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg (HAW) followed, which she completed with a diploma.

Birgit Weyhe has lived and worked in her adopted home Hamburg- Altona for many years . In Hamburg she also works as a lecturer in the design department at the University of Applied Sciences.

In her partly autobiographical work Birgit Weyhe combines the style of European comic - vanguard of African design. Her works have been shown in exhibitions not only in Germany, but also in Portugal , France , Italy , Belgium , Austria and Switzerland and have been published in various countries in magazines and anthologies .

In 2007 Birgit Weyhe took 2nd place at the Fumetto Festival in Lucerne with the competition theme Future and in 2009 in Linz at the Nextcomic Festival 1st place.

On behalf of the Goethe-Institut Birgit Weyhe organized workshops about her work in Montréal ( Canada ), Montevideo ( Uruguay ) and Córdoba ( Argentina ). In 2012 she took part in a several-week exchange program run by the Goethe Institute for comic artists in São Paulo ( Brazil ). The Goethe-Institut Poland recommends Birgit Weyhe's graphic novel Im Himmel ist Jahrmarkt as teaching material to support learning the German language and makes it available for download in a didactically prepared form on its homepage.

For her fourth comic book entitled Madgermanes , which deals with the life of the former GDR contract workers from Mozambique , the so-called Madgermanes , Birgit Weyhe was awarded the comic book prize of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation on May 4, 2015 in the Literaturhaus Stuttgart . This prize was awarded for the first time in 2015 and, at 15,000 euros, is the highest endowed German prize for comics and graphic novels. The prize is expressly designed as a sponsorship prize , which should support the author in completing the approximately 250-page book. The volume was published in 2016 by Avant-Verlag and received the award for the best German-language comic at the Max and Moritz Prize at the 17th Erlangen Comic Salon .

Awards

• 2007: 2nd place at the Fumetto Festival in Lucerne
• 2009: 1st place at the Nextcomic Festival in Linz
• 2015: Comic book award of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation for Madgermanes
• 2016: Max and Moritz Prize , category “Best German-language comic”, for Madgermanes

Works (selection)

• I know , Mami Verlag, Berlin 2008.
• Frozen Ititi , excerpt from Frozen Charly , Mami Verlag, 2010, .pdf (downloadable)
• Reigen: A story in ten chapters , Avant-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-939080-57-2 .
• La Ronde: Une histoire en dix chapitres (French edition of Reigen ), Cambourakis, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-916589-97-8 .
• There is a fair in heaven , Johann Ullrich and Birgit Weyhe, Avant-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-939080-81-7 .
• Madgermanes , Avant-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945034-42-2 .
• Unterm Birnenbaum , Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-551-71351-3 .

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2005 Ilustr arte : Biennial International Exhibition of Illustration , Barreiro , Portugal
• 2008 Der Spiegel publishing house , Hamburg
• 2008 BilBolBul - Festival Internationale di Fumetto , Bologna , Italy
• 2009 Les 48 heures de la bande dessinée de Montréal , Montréal, Canada
• 2011 Montevideo Comic Festival , Uruguay
• 2011 Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Dr. Genaro Pérez , Cordoba, Argentina
• 2012 print dealer , Hamburg
• 2015 Madgermanes - Comic Book Prize of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation , Literaturhaus Stuttgart
• List of other exhibitions on Birgit Weyhe's homepage

Web links

• Literature by and about Birgit Weyhe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Women at the drawing table - "Mami Verlag" and his great talent Birgit Weyhe , article by Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, blog comic , June 17, 2009
• Talisman for a hundred years of misfortune , article by Andreas Platthaus on Birgit Weyhe's comic book Reigen , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Blog comic , March 5, 2012
• Review notes on Birgit Weyhe: “There is a fair in heaven” at perlentaucher.de
• Every comic artist's dream - First comic book award to Birgit Weyhe , report by Tobias Ignee in Kultur regional , SWR 2, May 5, 2015
• Anette Selg: Madgermanes by Birgit Weyhe. Weltenwanderin receives the first German comic book award. Deutschlandradio Kultur , May 8, 2015, accessed on June 4, 2015 . 
• Report on the award of the 1st comic book award on the homepage of the Literaturhaus Stuttgart
• Personal homepage of Birgit Weyhe
• Event with Birgit Weyhe on May 19, 2015 in the Literaturhaus Hamburg
• Author portrait on the homepage of the Berlin International Literature Festival
• Presentation of Madgermanes on Deutschlandfunk on May 26, 2016
• "The foreign gaze" , Max and Moritz award winner Birgit Weyhe in an interview with TITEL culture magazine , June 1, 2016, accessed on June 4, 2016
• Comic award winner Birgit Weyhe: "A kind of floating home" , interview with Moritz Piehler, Spiegel Online , June 3, 2016, accessed on the same day

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Anette Selg: Between the Worlds - comic book award for "Madgermanes" by Birgit Weyhe. In: Der Tagesspiegel . May 3, 2015, accessed June 5, 2015 . 
2. ↑ News Online Journal of HAW Hamburg - Comic Book Prize 2015 goes to Birgit Weyhe , article by Kleist , September 11, 2014
3. ^ Homepage of the HAW Hamburg: List of employees
4. ↑ Bettina Wieselmann: On the charm of the comic book. In: Südwest Presse . May 6, 2015, accessed June 3, 2015 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Homepage of Birgit Weyhe
6. ↑ Birgit Weyhe's graphic novel In Heaven is a fair on the homepage of the Goethe-Institut Poland
7. ↑ Article about the award of the prize to Birgit Weyhe on the homepage of the ComFor Society for Comics Research
8. ↑ Good news for the next generation of comics. In: Der Tagesspiegel . January 13, 2014, accessed June 3, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Prize winners. comic Salon Erlangen, May 2016, accessed on May 28, 2016 . 
10. ↑ List of participants in Ilustr arte 2005 (Portuguese)