Line Hoven

Line Hoven (* 1977 in Bonn ) is a German comic book artist and illustrator .

life and work

Line Hoven was born in Bonn and grew up near Detmold in East Westphalia. After working as an assistant for costume and stage design at the Staatstheater Kassel for two years , she began studying visual communication at the Kassel Art Academy . Two years later she moved to HAW Hamburg , where she a. a. studied with Anke Feuchtenberger and Georg Baber, known as ATAK .

According to the company, it was these two teachers who got Line Hoven to want to do comics. In an interview with the magazine brand eins , Line Hoven reports to the author Peter Lau about her fascination with the comic medium: “What always bothered me at the theater was that you could never implement the images you had in your head because everything is always too expensive was. There are no limits in comics, you can break out of everything and let others participate directly in your own universe. "

Line Hoven's style consists of drawings scratched into scrapboard . Thus, their way of working is very time-consuming. Her first book publication at the Berlin comic publisher Reprodukt , Liebe sucht weg , was also her thesis at the HAW Hamburg. She has also published stories in magazines such as "Orang" and " Strapazin ". She also took part in the anthology Klassenfahrt published by ATAK .

In 2008 she received the ICOM prize in the category of best independent comic for her work Liebe sucht weg at the 13th Erlangen International Comic Salon .

In 2010 Line Hoven was awarded the eoplauen prize and in 2017 she received the Hans Meid Prize .

The series Dudenbrooks with texts by Jochen Schmidt and pictures by Line Hoven, published weekly from January 8 to July 16, 2011 in the Pictures and Times section of the FAZ , was subsequently published as a book by the Jacoby & Stuart publishing house .

Line Hoven lives and works in Hamburg as a cartoonist and freelance illustrator.

Quotes

“ A German-American love and family story from the post-war period. Narrated in dreamy black and white with Kempovskian cunning. "

- Benedikt Erenz, Die Zeit, about "Love looks away".

Publications

• Orang 4. Kiki Post, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-9809769-0-9 .
• School trip. Reprodukt, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-938511-03-9 .
• Orang 5. Kiki Post, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-9809769-1-6 .
• Love looks away Reprodukt, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938511-66-4 .
• Dudenbrooks. Text: Jochen Schmidt . Jacoby & Stuart, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941787-50-6 .
• Schmythology. Text: Jochen Schmidt . CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65367-4 .

literature

• Nina Mahrt: Best Independent Comic: “Liebe sucht weg” by Line Hoven. An interview. In: Comic! -Jahrbuch 2009. Stuttgart 2008, pp. 168–173. ISBN 978-3-8883493-9-3
• Andreas Platthaus: Instead of an introduction. A motif from Line Hoven's "Love looks away". In: Reddition No. 49/50 (2009), pp. 5-7.

Web links

• Literature by and about Line Hoven in the catalog of the German National Library
• Line Hoven website
• Artist information about Line Hoven on the website of Reprodukt
• Peter Lau: Lucky. In: brand eins edition 08/2006. brand eins Verlag GmbH & Co. oHG, accessed on March 20, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Lau: Lucky. In: brand eins edition 08/2006. brand eins Verlag GmbH & Co. oHG, accessed on March 20, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Overview of the winners of the Independent Comic Prize on the ICOM website
3. ↑ Hans Meid Prize 2017: Illustrator Line Hoven awarded , boersenblatt.net, October 25, 2017, accessed on October 25, 2017
4. ^ Line Hoven | Authors | Reproduced. Retrieved March 20, 2020 . 
5. ↑ According to artist information on the website of Reprodukt ( Memento from December 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )