Jens Rassmus

Jens Rassmus (* 1967 in Kiel ) is a German children's book author , draftsman and illustrator .

Life

Jens Rassmus was born in Kiel in 1967. He first studied geography and German, from 1992 illustration at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg with Rüdiger Stoye and at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, Scotland. Since 2009 he has been living in his hometown Kiel again. His children's books were u. a. translates into English, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Portuguese.

Awards

• Picture book of the month (AKJ) for farmer Enno and his cow Africa and the full moon orchestra
• Illustration prize for books for children and young people from Evangelische Publizistik eV - list of recommendations for farmer Enno and his cow Africa
• Prize of the children's jury at the Austrian Children's and Youth Book Prize for The Most Wonderful Place in the World and Pink and Pencil
• Austrian children's and youth book award for The Checkered Beetle , The Grandfather in the Rust-Red Wingback Chair and The Zapperdockel and the Wock
• The best 7 (from Deutschlandfunk and Focus) for The Zapperdockel and the Wock , The Checkered Beetle , raising kites is easy and can I play along?
• Children's and young people's book prize of the City of Vienna for pink and pencil and Der Zapperdockel and the Wock (recognition)
• White Raven - Pink and Pencil Recommended List for the International Youth Library
• German Youth Literature Prize (nomination) for Der Zapperdockel and the Wock
• Lynx of the month for Der Zapperdockel and the Wock
• Lynx of the month (May 2017) for sleeping fish?
• The children's book award of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 2018 for King is still to come , together with the author Andrea Karimé
• Korbinian - Paul Maar Prize (together with Jens Raschke ) 2018 for Sleeping Fish?
• Austrian Children's and Young People's Book Prize 2019 for Das Nacht-Tier

Works

Own children's books

• Farmer Enno and his cow Afrika , Sauerländer 1997, ISBN 978-3-7941-4261-3 .
• The full moon orchestra , Sauerländer 1999 / provincial library 2007, ISBN 978-3-85252-865-6 .
• The most wonderful place in the world , NP 2005 / Hippopotamus in G&G Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-7017-2030-9 .
• The checkered beetle , hippopotamus published by G&G Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-7017-2030-9 .
• Pink and Pencil , Hippopotamus published by G&G Verlag 2011. ISBN 978-3-7017-2096-5 .
• Can I play with you? , Hippopotamus in G&G Verlag 2014. ISBN 978-3-7017-2134-4 .
• A plaster for the grouper: Tales from the doctor fish , hippopotamus in G&G Verlag 2014. ISBN 978-3-7017-2140-5 .
• Party im Walfischbauch , hippopotamus in G&G Verlag 2016. ISBN 978-3-7074-5175-7 .
• The night animal , hippopotamus published by G&G Verlag 2018. ISBN 978-3707452150 .

Picture book illustrations by other authors (selection)

• Little Mr. Jaromir ( Martin Ebbertz ), Patmos 2002 / Sauerländer 2005 / Razamba 2013.
• When the gondoliers were silent ( William Goldman ), Eichborn 2003.
• Letter jungle ( Ursula Poznanski ), Dachs 2003, new edition in: Numbers and Letter Jungle, Sauerländer 2011.
• The Zapperdockel and the Wock (Georg Bydlinski), Dachs 2004 / Residence 2013.
• Lametta in August ( Barbara Bronnen ), Sanssouci 2004.
• Lost key ( Annette Herzog ), Peter Hammer 2005.
• The great clong (Melanie Rosenmaier), Dachs 2006.
• The grandfather in the rust-red wing chair ( Juttareiber ), Dachs 2006.
• I would like to be a chicken (Beatrix Schnippenkoetter), Campus 2006.
• Three dirty pirates clean up (Dieter Hörsch), Coppenrath 2008.
• Raising dragons is easy ( Bernd Kohlhepp ), Sauerländer 2009.
• How the weasel blew the giant's march ( Mathias Jeschke ), Boje 2010.
• Columbus and the elephant painting (Michelle Cuevas), Dressler 2011.
• Good dragon & bad dragon ( Christine Nöstlinger ), residency 2012.
• 5 Yetis are looking for a home ( Eva Ibbotson ), dtv 2013.
• Captain Squirrels and the Magic Door ( Christopher Ecker ), Gerstenberg 2014.
• monday is Mützenfalschrumtag ( Arne Rautenberg ) Peter Hammer 2014.
• I still need it all! ( Petra Postert ) Tulipan 2015.
• Lisa, Paul and Mrs. Fisch ( Brigitte Schär ) Peter Hammer 2016.
• Do fish sleep? ( Jens Raschke ), Mixtvision Verlag 2017.
• King is still to come ( Andrea Karimé ), Peter Hammer Verlag 2017.
• little red riding hood flies rocket ( Arne Rautenberg ), Peter Hammer Verlag 2017.
• Chlodwig ( Will Gmehling ), Peter Hammer Verlag 2018.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• Book Pirates Festival No. 9 - Good Dragon - Bad Dragon , Children's Literature House Lübeck 2012.
• Literature for young readers , Vienna 2006.
• KinderMedienGalerie , Braunschweig 2005.

Participation

• Shadow animals and sun gazers. Children's book illustration from Northern Germany , North Sea Museum Husum 2014.
• Excellent! The children's and youth book prize lynx , Hamburger Kinderbuchhaus 2014.
• AMALDI studio exhibition , Amaldi Hamburg 2014.
• Children's book exhibition , Factory of the Arts Hamburg 2013.
• In the realm of fantasy , Mindelheim 2008/2009.
• Tierisch Gut , K4 gallery Saarbrücken 2008.
• From picture book to performance , Puppet Theater Lübeck 2008.
• 8th European Youth Book Fair , Saarbrücken 2008.
• Contemporary children's book illustration from Germany , Goethe-Institut Barcelona 2007.
• Biennale , Bratislava 2007.
• La Livre Culotté - 100% AUDACE , Montréal, Québec, Munich 2005/2006.
• Children's matter , Ahrensburg 1998.

Web links

• Jens Rassmus's website
• Literature by and about Jens Rassmus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jens Rassmus at Perlentaucher
• Extensive interview and workshop discussion with Jens Rassmus at Deutschlandfunk on August 9, 2014
• Interview with the online magazine Kinderbuch-Couch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.luebbe.de/Personen/Details/Jens+Rassmus
2. ↑ http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/jens-rassmus-im-gespraech-fuer-kinder-ist-das-immer-lustig.1202.de.html?dram:article_id=294024