Roberta Bergmann

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Roberta Bergmann (* 1979 in Nordhausen ) is a German author and designer who specializes in book design and illustration .

Life

After graduating from high school, Bergmann began training as a design assistant for graphics and design in Halle (Saale) in 1998 . From 1999 to 2005 she studied communication design with a focus on book design and illustration at the Braunschweig University of Art .

Since 2001 she has published her own books or works as a freelance book designer, author and illustrator with publishers. In 2003 she founded the studio community "Tatendrang-Design" in Braunschweig together with four other designers and has since worked as an artist, illustrator and designer. From 2008 to 2012 Bergmann was a research assistant in the design department (design principles and design theory) at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. From 2012 to 2014 she taught there as a visiting professor in the field of design, design principles in the communication design and industrial design courses . She has other teaching assignments and gives workshops, etc. a. in the fields of graphic design, artist editions, self-marketing and book design for non-designers. Bergmann also gives lectures for founders from the creative industries and gives workshops.

The Graphische Kunst - International Journal for Book Art and Graphics writes about Bergmann's book design and illustration for spring awakening , published on the occasion of Frank Wedekind's 150th birthday in 2014: “The illustrations by Roberta Bergmann bring the time of the text into account through the consistent implementation in a contemporary Art Nouveau style (...). ”The review also states that the book design and the pictures are designed according to a stage play and the inevitable impression is that the viewer is told something that only he should hear is thus made a confidante. And the reviewer sees this primarily in the "(...) illustrative art of the artist."

In 2016 Bergmann's first non-fiction book The Basics of Design was published .

Prices

In addition to smaller prizes such as the 1st prize for painting in 2004 at the 3rd Youth Art Biennale in Sondershausen, Bergmann won the “Vida Paper Design Award” in 2007 and 2008 together with Tonia Wiatrowski.

In 2012 Bergmann was awarded together with Tatendrang-Design 2012 as a culture and creative pilot in Germany 2012 by the initiative culture and creative industries of the federal government.

As a book designer and illustrator, she was nominated for the German Design Award 2015 for the book Spring Awakening and was also a finalist of the Europeen Design Award 2015.

In 2017 she was appointed by the Federal Government's initiative for culture and creative industries as an independent and honorary ambassador and multiplier from 2016-2019 as a Fellow of the Competence Center. In these three years, a strong network of around 100 people has emerged, which has been self-organized since 2020. There is still a close exchange of content between the network and the competence center. "

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Exhibitions (selection)

  • 50 shadow plays - the Marta Hoepffner Prize for Photography , Hofheim am Taunus City Museum, 11/2002 (finalist of the competition, catalog, group exhibition)
  • Schlaflos , Photo Gallery 94, Baden / Switzerland, 11–12 / 2002 (group exhibition)
  • age phenomena , Catholic Academy Berlin, 09-10 / 2003 (solo exhibition and discussion evening on the subject of "aging", among others together with Sybil Countess Schönfeldt )
  • Printmaking , works of the class printmaking Prof. Scholz, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2004 (group exhibition)
  • european bookart , exhibition & sale of unique items and small editions, bookart bookshop, London / England, 2004–2005 (group exhibition)
  • FrauenZimmer - Dynamic Design , Kunsthaus Meyenburg , Nordhausen, 01–03 / 2006 (group exhibition)
  • b4 - Young Art in Germany , Brüder-Grimm-Platz eV, Kassel, 08–09 / 2009 (group exhibition, patron Jan Hoet )
  • Eavesdropping , Association of Visual Artists, Torhaus-Galerie, Braunschweig, 06/2012 (group exhibition)
  • Memento III , Enschede / Netherlands, Cork / Ireland, Wimbledon / England (traveling exhibition, group exhibition)
  • Sketchbooks 2009–2012 , Association for Young Art, Wolfsburg, 05–06 / 2013 (curator of the exhibition, group exhibition)
  • The illustrated artist book 2002–2012 , Braunschweig City Library , 06–07 / 2013 (solo exhibition)
  • Art is female - Ilsetraut Glock and 33 contemporary artists , Kunsthaus Meyenburg, Nordhausen, 03–05 / 2014 (group exhibition)
  • Pop-Up Gallery , Port of Art, Berlin, 10/2015 (group exhibition)
  • art ... here and now, consumer association, Braunschweig, 10/2015 (group exhibition)
  • 9th Heise Art Prize , finalist exhibition, Alte Feuerwache, Dessau, 05/2016 (group exhibition)
  • WortimBild - The 10 best works of the 2016 competition , as part of the Days of German-Language Literature and award of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize , Klagenfurt / Austria, 06-07 / 2016 (group exhibition)
  • De toekomstige Mens , Arendsmanhuis, Enschede / Netherlands, 09/2016 (group exhibition)
  • 100 women and 100 years of women's suffrage , vernissage plus: Panel discussion with the then Justice Minister Katarina Barley and the author Margarete Stokowski , Federal Ministry of Justice, Berlin, 11/2018 (group exhibition)

Publications (selection)

Text, illustration and book design

  • Roberta Bergmann: signs of age . (Photography and book design), self-published, Braunschweig 2001
  • Frederike Frei : Instead of flowers (illustration, book design), self-published, Braunschweig 2002
  • Hans Hunfeld : Trittsiegel (illustration, book design, together with A.-L. Janßen), self-published, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-00-013734-3
  • Hartmut Jahn (Author), Roberta Bergmann and Tonia Wiatrowski (design): Babylon Circus , Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-936711-90-5 (bilingual catalog book that the work of the filmmaker and video artist Hartmut Jahn presents )
  • usus: translation (book design, together with T. Wiatrowski), ed. usus / exhibition catalog, Offenbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021630-5
  • Walther Hassmann (text), Peter Ransen (photography), Roberta Bergmann and Tonia Wiatrowski (design): The Last Show in Paradise , Braunschweig 2008
  • Cover design for: Axel Klingenberg : Eintracht und Zwietracht: Braunschweiger Stories, Verlag Andreas Reiffer, Braunschweig 2011, ISBN 978-3-934896-32-1
  • Radio Okerwelle : Radio broadcast How are children's books made ?, Reading time , Braunschweig 2012
  • Gudrun Onganina: On the pots, garden, go! Practical knowledge and ideas for urban gardening (illustration, book design, together with T. Wiatrowski), Haupt Verlag Bern / Switzerland 2014, ISBN 978-3-258-07835-9
  • Frank Wedekind (text), Roberta Bergmann (design and illustration): Spring awakening. A children's tragedy , kunstanstifter verlag, Mannheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-942795-16-6
  • Bärbel Ofting (text), Roberta Bergmann and Tonia Wiatrowski (design and illustration): Voll disgusting - 55 disgusting things and what's behind them , Haupt Verlag, Bern 2014, ISBN 978-3-258-07843-4
  • Roberta Bergmann (text, design, illustration): When the monkey threw the banana and met 25 animals , kunstanstifter verlag, Mannheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-942795-28-9
  • Bärbel Oftring (text), Roberta Bergmann and Tonia Wiatrowski (design and illustration): Tatort Natur! - Fraud, murder & deception in the animal kingdom - and what's behind it , Bern 2015, ISBN 978-3-258-07912-7
  • Roberta Bergmann (text, design): The basics of design , Haupt Verlag, Bern 2016, ISBN 978-3-258-60149-6
  • Roberta Bergmann (text, design): Braunschweig - Das Aus und Weitermalbuch , Verlag Andreas Reiffer , Meine 2017, ISBN 978-3-945715-04-8
  • Roberta Bergmann (text, design): Head free for the creative flow , Haupt Verlag, Bern 2018, ISBN 978-3-258-60176-2
  • Selma Lagerlöf (text), Roberta Bergmann (design, illustration): Mr. Arnes Schatz , Kunstanstifter Verlag, Mannheim 2019, ISBN 978-3-942795-81-4
  • Roberta Bergmann (text, design): The Practice of Design , Haupt Verlag, Bern 2020, ISBN 978-3-258-60217-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Juliane Wenzl: Speech at the opening of a solo artist book exhibition by Roberta Bergmann in 2013 . Retrieved June 15, 2014.
  2. ↑ Active design website . Drive design - website. Retrieved June 15, 2014.
  3. ↑ ATAK on thirst for action design . Website of the artist and illustrator ATAK, article from: DAS MAGAZIN, January 2005, accessed on June 15, 2014.
  4. ↑ Basics in the design department at the HBK Braunschweig . Basic page of the HBK, supervised by a guest professor. Roberta Bergmann, Retrieved June 15, 2014.
  5. ↑ Quoting from issue 1/2014, pp. 29–30, 2014
  6. ^ Journal of Graphic Art . Editor's website, Edition Curt Visel, accessed June 20, 2014.
  7. ↑ Haupt Verlag und Buchhandlung | The basics of design | Buy books online . ( Haupt.ch [accessed on September 27, 2016]).
  8. ↑ VIDA Paper Design Award 2008 and 2007 ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Allianz der Deutschen Designers - AGD, accessed on June 20, 2014
  9. ↑ Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology announces 2012 winners ( memento from January 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Kultur-kreativ-wirtschaft.de, December 16, 2012, accessed on June 20, 2014
  10. ↑ The Fellow Network , accessed on July 22, 2020
  11. ↑ Discussion evening in the Catholic Academy Berlin , Catholic Academy in Berlin, September 25, 2003, accessed on June 21, 2014
  12. ↑ Memento III - project , blog of the initiator of the AKI in Enschede / Netherlands, accessed on June 21, 2014
  13. ↑ b4 ( Memento from August 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), b4-2009.de, accessed on June 21, 2014
  14. ↑ A picture of each figure - Portrait Bergmann & Spring Awakening . braunschweiger-zeitung.de. Retrieved June 15, 2014.
  15. ↑ Awakening illustrated . nnz-online.de. Retrieved June 15, 2014.
  16. ↑ Review by Renate Bojanowski / wortmax . wortmax.de. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
  17. ↑ What I'm reading right now: In: Schnitzel & Make-up. June 19, 2016. Retrieved September 27, 2016 .
  18. ↑ When the monkey threw the banana and hit 25 animals. An animal ABC. “Fragrant colon. In: literaturblog-duftender-doppelpunkt.at. Retrieved September 27, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Bergmann, Roberta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen , GDR