Sybille Hein

Sybille Hein (born September 2, 1970 in Wolfenbüttel , Lower Saxony ) is a German children's book author, cabaret artist , illustrator and designer .

Biography / work

Sybille Hein first studied German and philosophy at the University of Göttingen and then illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences .

In 1999 she founded the Atelier Gute Grund in Berlin with other illustrators (including Aljoscha Blau , Rinah Lang, Marion Goedelt) . Initially, Sybille Hein worked mainly as an illustrator for various German-language publishers and illustrated numerous books a. a. for well-known authors like Cornelia Funke or Amelie Fried .

With Rutti Berg, the farmer's wife, she would so much like to be queen , her first picture book with her own text was published by Bajazzo Verlag in 2004 . In 2006 she illustrated the first children's edition of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . Since then, writing your own stories has become more and more important for Sybille Hein.

In 2008 her adventure musical Princess Knöpfchen was published by Carlsen-Verlag . In autumn 2010, the second volume of this story followed with Princess Knöpfchen and Prince Schleimi . The music was composed in each case by Falk Effenberger, who appeared together with Sybille Hein from 2000 to 2006 as Sybille & der kleine Wahnsinnige on German cabaret stages. Edda Schnittgard (formerly Queen Bee ) directed several of her programs . Between 2004 and 2009 they won numerous prizes, such as the Stuttgart broom , the Reinheimer Satirelöwen, the Leipzig Cabinet Prize , the Austrian Children's Book Prize and the Rostock cabaret prize Der Rostocker Koggenzieher .

The stories and illustrations by Sybille Hein are often a bit crazy, with absurd wit and bizarre characters. With her stories she is aimed equally at children and adults. “In terms of content, it's always about the old themes anyway, in cabaret, in children's books, probably everywhere: search for meaning, loneliness, love, happiness, fear and so on,” says Sybille Hein.

Works

Text and illustration

• Princess Knöpfchen and Prince Schleimi - An Adventure Musical , Carlsen-Verlag, 2010
• Princess Knöpfchen - An Adventure Musical , Carlsen-Verlag, 2008
• When Giants Sneeze , Carlsen-Verlag, 2006
• Rutti Berg, the farmer's wife, would love to be queen , Bajazzo Verlag, 2004

illustration

• A place on the whale , Ed .: Amelie Fried , cbj- Verlag, 2009
• Halli hello scoundrels, the fish have drowned - The great family songbook , Beltz & Gelberg , 2009
• Come with us to dreamland - anthology with bedtime stories , text: Harriet Grundman, Ravensburger Buchverlag , 2009
• The Carnival of the Animals , Text: Michael Quast , Fischer Schatzinsel Verlag, 2008
• We are all born free - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures , Ed .: John Burningham , Illustration: u. a. Sybille Hein, Carlsen Verlag in collaboration with Amnesty International , 2008
• House of Little Researchers - Experiment book for children , text: Joachim Hecker, Rowohlt Verlag , 2007
• I love you like applesauce - anthology of children's stories , Ed .: Amelie Fried , cbj-Verlag, 2006
• “Die Zeit” - children's edition 2006 , publisher: Susanne Gaschke, title illustration: Sybille Hein, Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius, 2006
• There are no Easter bunnies in the desert , text: Pepe Nero, Aufbau-Verlag , 2006
• Why is the light bright so quickly? , Text: Elke Krasny , Dachs Verlag, 2006
• But you were lucky , Text: Martin Baltscheid, Fischer Schatzinsel , 2005
• Ada's greatest wish , text: Maxim Biller , Bloomsbury Verlag, 2005
• Heaven should wait , text: Katja Henkel, Berlin Verlag, 2005
• Sultan and Kotzbrocken , text: Claudia Schreiber , Carl Hanser Verlag , 2004
• A fairy tale is a fairy tale is a fairy tale , text: Marjaleena Lembcke , NP-Buchverlag, 2004
• Clothes make the man , text: Gottfried Keller , Kindermann Verlag Berlin, 2004
• The very best princess , text: Ursula Poznanski , Dachs Verlag, 2004
• Die Glücksfee , Text: Cornelia Funke , Fischer Schatzinsel Verlag, 2003

Prizes and awards

• Stiftung Buchkunst The Most Beautiful Books 2009 for the songbook Halli, Hallo Halunken (2009)
• Austrian children's and youth book award for Why is the light bright so quickly? (2006)
• Children's Book Prize of the City of Vienna for Why is the light bright so quickly? (2006)
• Stiftung Buchkunst The Most Beautiful Books 2006 for When Giants Sneeze (2006)
• Austrian Children's and Youth Book Prize for A fairy tale is a fairy tale is a fairy tale (2005)
• Children's Book Prize of the City of Vienna for The Very Best Princess (2005)
• Book Art Foundation The Most Beautiful Books 2005 for Heaven Shall Wait (2005)
• “The best 7 books for young readers” in March and April 2004 for Sultan and Kotzbrocken , awarded by Deutschlandradio and Focus on TV (2004)
• Cabinet Prize of the City of Leipzig for the cabaret program Sybille und der kleine Wahnsinnige (2003)
• "Reinheimer Satirelöwe" for the cabaret program Sybille und der kleine Wahnsinnige (2002)

Web links

• Homepage of Sybille Hein
• Literature by and about Sybille Hein in the catalog of the German National Library

Interviews and articles

• "Justus Pieper meets ... Sybille Hein" globe-m.de , 12.2009
• "Oops, we're still alive - a book decade in retrospect" boersenblatt.net , 10.2009
• "Not totally schubidubi" loewee.de , 11.2001

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ "Justus Pieper meets ... Sybille Hein", globe-m.de, 12/2009 ( memento of the original from November 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.