Petra Elsner (artist)

Petra Elsner (born September 28, 1953 in Wildau ) is a German author and painter.

Life

She began her professional training initially as a type and graphic painter. From 1980 she worked as a youth editor at the Junge Welt publishing house for 13 years. She also took a correspondence course in journalism and studied philosophy for six semesters.

In 1992 she began to turn to fiction and painting. From 1994 to 2008 she lived and worked as a freelance artist in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg . In January 2008 she left Berlin and moved to Kurtschlag in the Schorfheide.

Works

Books

• Novel “Bald & Palituch”, 1993, Delfini Athens
• Artist portraits in: “I'm never unemployed”, 1994, KIRO
• “Labyrinth Spreewald”, 1995, ELEFANTEN PRESS;
• Narration in: "Die Abickelte Frau", 1995, a-verbal-Verlag
• Story in: "EX", 1997, ELEFANTEN PRESS
• Co-author “Self-Marketing of Independent Journalistic Work”, 1997, IG-Medien; Revised edition 2004
• Artist portrait in: " L (and) D (raculas Reich) S (marriage and enjoyment)", 2000, Schibri-Verlag
• Big city fairy tale: "Wallo's strange journey", 2006, Wiesenburg Verlag, Schweinfurt - 2nd edition 2013
• Christmas fairy tale: "Ottilies Nachtwanderung", 2006, Messer Verlag, Eschbach
• Owl fiction: “Meander Memolos Zeitloch”, 2007, Messer Verlag, Eschbach
• Schorfheidemärchen: "Schattengeschichten aus dem Wanderland", 2010, Schibri Verlag, Uckerland, 1st and 2nd edition
• Christmas stories: “December reading book”, 2013, Ehm Welk publishing house, Angermünde
• A fantasy story for adults: “The Treasure of the Giant Trees”, 2014, Ehm Welk Angermünde publishing house
• A Uckermark crime story: “Stumme Gänse”, 2014, Ehm Welk Angermünde publishing house
•  Fantasy story: "The treasure of the giant trees", 2014, ibid
•   Short stories & poetry: “From the scent of warm times” , 2015, ibid
•   Christmas stories: "From the silence of winter", 2016, ibid
•   Illustrated legends: “Legendary Barnim” , 2017, ibid

calendar

• Cartoons "Kauzige Eulen", 2003 art calendar, Märkischen Verlag- und Druckhaus Frankfurt / O., 2002
• Cartoons "Birds of Paradise", art calendar 2004, Märkischen Verlag- und Druckhaus Frankfurt / O., 2003
• Drawings and a fairy tale in: "Guardian of Wisdom", wall calendar 2006, Messner Verlag Eschbach, 2005
• Drawings in: "Flight through Europe", wall calendar 2018, Messner Verlag Schuttertal, 2017

Book illustrations

• Drawings for Sylvia Krupicka's volume of poetry “Mondphasen”, 2005, Wiesenburg Schweinfurt
• Drawings for "Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Fables", 2008, Berlin, Verlag Regine Dehnel

Exhibitions (selection):

• 1995 “Working with stain on paper” in “Letters to Felice”, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
• 1996/97 “Night Thoughts”, Raiffeisenbank Vetschau
• 1997 “Works on Paper”, Segenskirche, Berlin
• 1998 Factory exhibition, Zeuthen Town Hall
• 2000 “The theater in us”, theater rehearsal house, Berlin-Mitte
• 2001 “Magic of Being”, Kleine Hofgalerie, Berlin-Pankow; "Fools, love, old yearning", Elsterwerda
• 2004 “Magic of Being”, Reichenbach Town Hall Gallery
• 2005 "World of Images", Beeskow Castle
• 2007 “Märchen-Reisen”, coppersmiths, Beeskow
• 2008 The 100th Rathausgalerie Reichenbach - group exhibition
• 2010 personal exhibition at the MKC Templin; Permanent exhibition in the Hotel Döllnsee (auditorium)
• 2016 “Secrets” in the council chamber in Bernau near Berlin