Kristina Gehrmann

Kristina Gehrmann
at the 2018 Comiciade in Aachen

Kristina Gehrmann (* 1989 in Leverkusen ) is a German illustrator and comic artist with a realistic drawing style and a focus on historical topics.

Life

After graduating from high school in 2008, she studied classical-academic drawing and painting at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence . She has been working as a freelance illustrator since 2012. She lives and works in Hamburg .

Her first comic book publication, the graphic novel trilogy "Im Eisland", deals with the fate of the missing Franklin expedition and examines the question of how and why it ended in tragedy. The first volume of “Im Eisland” was awarded the German Youth Literature Prize in 2016 in the non-fiction category.

Kristina Gehrmann has been a member of the board of the Illustratoren Organization e. V.

In addition to working on her own comic projects, Kristina Gehrmann works as an illustrator with a focus on history and adventure topics for book publishers. B. for the Escape Adventures series from TOPP Verlag and Mysterious World of the Middle Ages (Circon Verlag).

Publications

• In the Ice Country: Volume 1: The Franklin Expedition. Hinstorff Verlag , 2015, ISBN 978-3-356-01901-8 .
• In the Eisland: Volume 2: Trapped. Hinstorff Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-356-01994-0 .
• In Eisland: Volume 3: Lost. Hinstorff Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-356-02024-3 .
• Drawing as a profession. Self-published, 2016
• The jungle. Carlsen Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-551-71438-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review of Im Eisland Volume 1 , in the Tagesspiegel
2. ↑ Short profile of Im Eisland Volume 1 , djlp.jugendliteratur.org
3. ↑ Brief profile on the website of the illustrators' organization , io-home.org

Web links

Commons : Kristina Gehrmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Kristina Gehrmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website
• Hinstorff on Kristina Gehrmann
• Interview at three times all
• Interview at Sumikai