Tina Brenneisen

Tina Brenneisen (* 1977 in Dresden ) is a German comic artist , illustrator and author of graphic novels . She publishes part of her work under the pseudonym PoinT .

Life

Tina Brenneisen, who was born in Dresden, studied psychology and philosophy at the TU Dresden and the Free University of Berlin , but works as a comic artist, illustrator, caricaturist and author in her adopted home Berlin . The artist illustrates children's books and writes graphic novels for young people and adults. She takes part in comic festivals with her work and organizes her own workshops .

Brenneisen's first published work was in 2010/11 several issues of a comic book series with the title Die Blaumänner . She was involved as an illustrator in the children's books Das Monster-Musical and Die Schlafburschen by A. Wallis Lloyd . In Berlin she founded the small independent 2013 publisher called parallel avenue in which it publishes comics and illustrated literature. In 2015 Brenneisen received a two-month scholarship in the AIR program in Krems an der Donau , one of the largest artist in residence programs in Austria.

Her current comic book, which was completed in 2019, entitled The Light That Empties Shadows, has autobiographical features. The artist deals with the subject of the stillbirth she herself suffered . In September 2016 it was announced that she had been selected from 78 applicants for this work as the winner of the comic book award of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation . The jury justified their choice as follows:

"... An autobiographical comic about an uncomfortable but important topic, which, with its beautiful coloring and semi-realistic figures, moves to tears in the same way as - and that's no small wonder - makes you smile."

- Thomas von Steinaecker , juror.

At the award ceremony on May 5, 2017 in the Literaturhaus Stuttgart , Andreas Platthaus , the head of literature at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , gave the laudatory speech .

The comic book award of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation was awarded for the third time in 2017 and, at 15,000 euros, is the highest endowed German award for comics and graphic novels. The prize is expressly designed as a sponsorship prize , which should support the author in completing the 250-page book.

Awards

• 2016 artist-in-residence scholarship in the AIR program Krems, Austria
• 2017 Comic Book Prize of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation for the light that empties shadows

Works

as an author

• The overalls. Comic book series, 2011/12
• The final secret. Graphic Novel, Parallelallee, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-00041-120-5 .
• The dream factory. Graphic Novel, Schaltzeit, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-94697-205-1 .
• The hoodies. Comic book, Schaltzeit, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-94697-204-4 .
• The yellow pony. Graphic Novel, Parallelallee 2017, ISBN 978-3-946972-07-5 .
• Bergstrasse 68: A tree is moving. (Illustrator: Veronica Solomon), Parallelallee, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3946972334 .
• The light that empties shadows. (Graphic Novel), Edition Moderne , Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03731-192-9 .

as an illustrator

• A. Wallis Lloyd: The Monster Musical. With illustrations by PoinT. Edition Graugans, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-944704-13-5 .
• A. Wallis Lloyd: The sleeper boys. With illustrations by PoinT. Edition Graugans, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-944704-15-9 .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibition

• 2017 The light that empties shadows - Comic Book Prize of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation , Literaturhaus Stuttgart
• 2017 The light that empties shadows , Literary Colloquium Berlin

Group exhibitions

• 2011 The Browse Cartoon, Caricature & Comic Festival . 145 Berlin and international draftsmen at over 60 locations in Kreuzberg and in the former Tempelhof Airport.
• 2013 Funny prospects: Drôles de perspectives. Les relations franco-allemandes aujourd'hui et demain . Exhibition by the Goethe-Institut Paris in cooperation with the Information and Documentation Center of the German Embassy in Paris (CIDAL) on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty .
• 2016 Artists in Residence. Tina Brenneisen, Melanie Schober, Inga Steinmetz. Krems, Austria
• 2016 Erlangen Comic Salon
• 2017 Munich comic festival
• 2018 Erlangen Comic Salon

Web links

• Literature by and about Tina Brenneisen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Report on the exhibition Das Licht, das Schatten empties in the Literaturhaus Stuttgart
• Parallelallee Official publisher's website
• Timur Vermes : Comics about losses: This is how grief is, and it has to be. On: Spiegel Online from October 18, 2019.
• How a mother deals with the death of her child in a comic Interview with Tina Brenneisen on ze.tt (accessed on October 14, 2019.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Presentation of the artist on the website of the Munich Comic Festival, comicfestival-muenchen.de, accessed on May 7, 2017.
2. ^ Presentation of the artist on the website of the Erlangen Comic Salon, comic-salon.de, accessed on May 5, 2017.
3. ↑ Script workshop: Tina Brenneisen - Graphic Novels. (No longer available online.) In: itfs.de. June 14, 2020, archived from the original on June 1, 2017 ; accessed on May 13, 2017 . 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.  
4. ^ Wallis Lloyd reads from his book "Die Schlafburschen" - Menschen in Dresden in front of students. In: Menschen-in-dresden.de. November 16, 2013, accessed May 7, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Brenneisen scholarship holder , website of the AIR program Krems, air-krems.at, accessed on May 5, 2017.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Comic Book Prize Winner 2017 - Berthold Leibinger Foundation. In: leibinger-stiftung.de. Retrieved May 5, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Article about the award of the prize to Tina Brenneisen on the homepage of the ComFor Society for Comics Research
8. ↑ Berthold Leibinger Stiftung: The 2017 comic book award winners have been chosen Comics. In: tagesspiegel.de . August 29, 2016. Retrieved May 5, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Andreas Platthaus: Brief on the way to the long main work , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Blog comic , May 4, 2017, blogs.faz.net, accessed on May 13, 2017.
10. ↑ Tina Brenneisen in Corso conversation with Juliane Reil: Comic "Bergstrasse 68" - "No ideological pattern of good and bad" in: Deutschlandfunk from June 24, 2019.
11. ^ Children's comic “Bergstrasse 68”: No tree office and no happy ending. In: Tagesspiegel of October 30, 2019.
12. ↑ A shockingly honest graphic novel on the taboo subject of stillbirth. (Accessed October 13, 2019.)
13. ↑ Exhibition: Tina Brenneisen: The light that empties shadows - July 8th - October 13th, 2017 | LCB - Literary Colloquium Berlin. Retrieved August 2, 2017 . 
14. ↑ The exhibition on the CIDAL website ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , allemagneenfrance.diplo.de, accessed on May 7, 2017. (French)