Hello!
I’m Stephanie, a visual storyteller and illustrator with a love for comics, currently based in Chemnitz, Germany.
My work moves between editorial and book illustration, comics, and cultural projects, with a strong interest in the personal and the political. Stories about people (and animals), their fears, their contradictions, their resilience.
I enjoy the process and bring responsibility for projects I take on.
My clients and collaborators include Penguin Random House, Tyrolia, and Fraunhofer IAO. My work has been featured in Weltkunst and Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and together with author and friend Frauke Angel I was a finalist for the Comicbuchpreis der Berthold Leibinger Stiftung 2024.
CV
Residencies & Exchange 2025 — Would Like to Meet, international artist residency, Quarantine (Manchester/Chemnitz)
Workshops & Education 2023 — Graphic Memoir Workshop, Center for Cartoon Studies, USA, led by Melanie Gillman
2023 — Internationales Comicseminar Erlangen
2020 — Graphic Recording Workshop, led by bikablo
Exhibitions 2025 — Wie geht es dir? (group exhibition, touring) — Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart · wannseeFORUM Berlin · Societaetstheater Dresden · and others
Education 2005–2010 — Diploma in Graphic Design, University of Applied Sciences Mainz
* 1985
Selected clients
ASA-FF e.V.
City of Chemnitz
Edition Pastorplatz
Fraunhofer IAO
Penguin Randomhouse / Tulipan
RBB
Smac – State Museum of Archaeology Chemnitz
Theodor Heuss Foundation
Tyrolia Kinderbuch
University of Technology Chemnitz
Memberships
Illustratoren Organisation Deutschland e.V.
VG BildKunst
Kreatives Chemnitz e.V.
Funding and awards
2023–2025 Project Funding of Chemnitz 2025 – European Capital of Culture Chemnitz for Raus aus Chemnitz?2023 Finalist of the German Comics Book Award of Berthold Leibinger Foundation together with Frauke Angel for Haus aus Stein (currently work in progress)
2021 Project founding of Stiftung Kulturwerk for my autofictional Comic Canadian Rhapsody
Children’s books
2021 – Heul doch! – Vom Heulen, Weinen, Plärren und Flennen by Frauke Angel,
publisher: Tyrolia Verlag
2020 – Oma Kuckuck by Frauke Angel,
publisher: Edition Pastorplatz
2018 – Mein kleines Stadt-Wimmelbuch CHEMNITZ,
publisher: Willegoos
2018 – Mein kleines Insel-Wimmelbuch SPIEKEROOG,
publisher
2017 – Geht ab wie Schmitz‘ Katze by Frauke Angel,
publisher: Edition Pastorplatz
Various works
2025 – Raus aus Chemnitz? – about female perspectives on GDR heritage and leaving a hometown · roles: idea, project lead & comic artist together with three other artists
2024 – Contribution to the comics project Wie geht es dir? – Zeichner*innen gegen Antisemitismus, Hass und Rassismus
2020 – Illustrations for the corporate design of Chemnitz – Candidate of the European Capital of Culture 2025
