Regina Kehn

Regina Kehn (* 1962 in Hamburg ) is a German illustrator of children's and youth literature .

Life

She studied illustration at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. She completed her studies in 1989 with a diploma in children's books.

Since 1990 she has been working as a freelancer for magazines ( Stern , Der Spiegel , Focus etc.), in advertising (campaigns for Stern, Rotring, Kitekat etc.), for children's book publishers (Fischer, dtv, Dressler, Ravensburger, Thienemann) and for television ( NDR , Siebenstein ).

She has created picture books, cover designs and interior illustrations for numerous authors, including a. for Anna Woltz , Michael Ende , Cornelia Funke , Jo Pestum , Eva Ibbotson , Polly Horvath , Marie-Aude Murail , Salah Naoura , Otfried Preußler , Jenny Nimmo and Andreas Steinhöfel .

In 2015 she designed a postage stamp for Deutsche Post for the first time .

Today she lives in Hamburg with her husband and two daughters.

Works

Picture books (text and illustrations)

• My life is beautiful . Klett Children's Book Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3-941411-34-0

Editing + illustrations

• The literary kaleidoscope . Anthology. Fischer, 2013. ISBN 978-3-596-85618-3

Children's and young people's book illustrations

picture books

• Christa Zeuch : Shut up, bad wolf . Poems. Arena, 1990
• Jo Pestum : The wild eight . Thienemann Verlag, 1993. ISBN 978-3-522-43139-2
• Jo Pestum: Clear the ring for the wild eight . Thienemann Verlag, 1994. ISBN 978-3-522-43164-4
• ETA Hoffmann : Nutcracker and Mouse King . Thienemann Verlag, 2006. ISBN 978-3-522-43531-4
• Ali Baba and the forty robbers . Children's opera by Taner Akyol based on the libretto by Cetin Ipekkaya and Marietta Rohrer-Ipekkaya. Jacoby & Stuart Publishing House , 2012. ISBN 978-3-941787-90-2
• Ali Baba and the 40 thieves . Jacoby & Stuart Publishing House , 2015. ISBN 978-3-942787-57-4

First reading books

• Martin Klein : Kangaroo: First stories to read yourself: Small sports stories . Ars Edition, 1999. ISBN 978-3-7607-3789-8

Non-fiction

• Kirsten Boie : Why we get mosquito bites in summer, why the snails eat our lettuce and why there is a rainbow . Jumbo, 2015. ISBN 978-3-8337-3381-9
• Nils Jockel : Angels and other poultry 10 - An advent calendar with a Christmas crib to make yourself and with a Christmas story . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 2003. ISBN 978-3-499-21262-8

Novels / short stories (selection)

→ Main article : List of illustrations by Regina Kehn

• Michael Ende : The satan archaeological lie, alcoholic wish punch . Thienemann Verlag, 1989. ISBN 978-3-522-16610-2
• Christian Thielmann: Catch the sleigh thieves! . Ravensburger, 2013. ISBN 978-3-473-52503-4
• Grit Poppe : Monty Vampire - Danger with a full moon . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2013. ISBN 978-3-423-76084-3
• Sylvia Heinlein : Mission underpants . Tulipan, 2013. ISBN 978-3-86429-113-5
• Kirsten Boie : There are things that cannot be told . Oetinger Taschenbuch, 2013. ISBN 978-3-7891-2019-0
• Nicola Huppertz: The unbelievable story of Wenzel, the robber Kawinski, Strupp and the Suseldrusel . Mixtvision, 2014. ISBN 978-3-551-55099-6
• Anna Woltz : My wonderfully strange week with Tess . Carlsen, 2015. ISBN 978-3-551-55099-6
• Matthias Morgenroth : Friends of the night . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2015. ISBN 978-3-423-76116-1
• Kirsten Boie : The boy who could read minds . Oetinger Taschenbuch, 2015. ISBN 978-3-8415-0347-3

Series

→ Main article : List of illustrations by Regina Kehn

• Joachim Friedrich : 4 1/2 friends . Thienemann Verlag , Stuttgart 1994–2011.
• Thomas Christos : A Djinn for all cases . Fischer Schatzinsel Verlag, 2007–2008
• Jenny Nimmo : Charlie Bone . Ravensburger Buchverlag, 2003-2010
• Jenny Nimmo: The silver spider . Ravensburger Verlag, 2007–2009
• Salah Naoura : Konrad, Krax ... Tulipan Verlag, 2008–2013
• Barbara van den Speulhof: Pippa, the elf Emilia and ... Fischer, 2013–2014
• Simone Klages : We children from Brunnenstrasse . German Paperback Association, 2009–2011

Exhibitions

• April 28 to June 4, 2006 in the Lübeck Aegidienhof
• February 11 to April 25, 2011 in the Städtische Galerie Neuwied: "The World of Wimmel Books"

Awards

• 1993 nomination for the German Youth Literature Prize for The Long Way to Santa Cruz by Michael Ende
• 1996 Art Directors Club : Bronze medal for illustration
• 2014 nomination for the German Youth Literature Prize for the literary kaleidoscope published by Regina Kehn
• 2016 Pied Piper Literature Prize for Friends of the Night (Author: Matthias Morgenroth )
• 2020 Lynx of the month (May) for the illustrations for When I stole the giant's plums by Ulf Stark

Individual evidence

1. ^ Exhibition in Neuwied
2. ^ German Youth Literature Prize
3. ^ German Youth Literature Prize

Web links

• Literature by and about Regina Kehn in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Homepage of Regina Kehn.
• Interview with Regina Kehn.
• Regina Kehn in the bookbinding & gallery gold leaf.