Gisela Degler-Rummel

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Gisela Degler-Rummel (* 1940 in Hamburg ; † June 23, 2010 there ) was a German illustrator.

Gisela Degler-Rummel was born in Hamburg, where she studied painting with Gisela Bührmann and Heinrich Kiessling and illustration with Wilhelm Martin Busch at the Werkkunstschule Hamburg . Her first illustrated picture book Paprika for a little donkey appeared in 1969 with texts by Gina Ruck-Pauquèt . Her first picture book with her own texts was published in 1978 under the title Jan and the Grandmother . A year earlier she was a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, where she worked until 1982.

In her picture books, which have been published since the 1970s, she addressed social issues such as emancipation, old age, war and peace. Her books have been on the shortlist for the German Youth Literature Prize several times . Since 2002, her books were for the mission Ohrenbär of rbb set to music. In addition, since autumn 2009, after numerous exhibitions at home and abroad, an exhibition has taken place in the Troisdorf picture book museum Burg Wissem, where her estate is also administered.

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