Stefanie Harjes

Stefanie Harjes (* 1967 in Bremen ) is a German illustrator .

Life

Stefanie Harjes studied illustration and painting in the design department at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and in Prague. Since 1994 she has been working in the Hamburg studio community Überm Wind . As a freelance illustrator, she works primarily for book and magazine publishers. Her work has received several awards, for example she and Karla Schneider received the Austrian Children's and Young Adult Book Prize in 2005 for The Houses of Selma Khnopff . From 2007 she had a teaching position for book illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, in 2009 she was awarded the Hamburg Teaching Prize, which was awarded for the first time.

Illustrated works

• Karla Schneider : The houses of Selma Khnopff. NP Verlag, St. Pölten [u. a.] 2004, ISBN 3-85326-290-2
• Anne Maar : Lotte and Lena in the land of letters. Bajazzo-Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-907588-57-6
• Manfred Mai (ed.): The literature reading book. German literature from 10 centuries. Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2005, ISBN 3-473-34442-7
• Gustav Schwab (ed.) And Josef Guggenmos (arrangement): The most beautiful sagas of classical antiquity . Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2006, ISBN 3-473-35261-6
• Annette Mierswa : Lola on the pea. Tulipan-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-939944-10-2
• Marjaleena Lembcke : Hexenheim Horizont. Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-312-00984-8
• Karla Schneider: If I were the 7th kid. Boje Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-414-82183-6
• Gudrun Pausewang : Grandma, dear Grandma. Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-473-34785-8
• Ulrich Plenzdorf : Bedtime story. Hinstorff, Rostock 2010, ISBN 978-3-356-01345-0
• Stefanie Harjes: Kafka. (with texts by Franz Kafka ) Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-473-35308-8
• Dorothea Lachner : There was a monster sitting on the roof. Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten 2011, ISBN 978-3-7017-2080-4
• Marjaleena Lembcke: An aphid is migrating. Tulipan-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-939944-72-0

Awards

• 2005: Austrian Children's and Youth Book Prize for The Houses of Selma Khnopff (together with Karla Schneider)
• 2006: Children's and Young People's Literature Prize of the State of Styria Special Prize Picture Book for Come, I'll tell you something about Ferd
• 2008: Toad of the month July for Lola on the pea (together with Annette Mierswa)
• 2009: Book of the month March for If I were the 7th kid (together with Karla Schneider)
• 2009: Hamburg Teaching Prize
• 2010: Shortlist for the German Youth Literature Prize for If I were the 7th kid
• 2010: Children's and young people's literature prize of the state of Styria for the picture book project The Bus with the Square Wheels

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hamburg teaching award went to three teachers at the HAW Hamburg press release of July 9, 2009

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefanie Harjes in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography on the website of the Tulipan publishing house
• Picture books and illustrated books - an interview with Stefanie Harjes, Deutschlandfunk, January 8, 2011