In the past few week we’ve been invited to do our graphic novel concert programme of 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA here and there, and I’ve been doing dedications into the comic. Here are a few of them! If you want to get a similar dedication in your copy of

Many readers of my books or people who know me and my work know that I am an absolute architecture nerd. I love architecture, and I am also very fascinated by the wealth of forms in architecture around 1900, the Historicism and Art Nouveau era. For some time now, the

It’s almost time! The lake in front of my house is frozen and you can dare to go on it.And just as soon it will be time for me to go home and see my parents and sister for Christmas. I wish everyone a happy, healthy and beautiful holiday and

In November I was on a book reading tour for my graphic novel 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (Carlsen Publishing House) together with the musician Jörg Walter (my husband :). The specialthing about it: We developed a program with music in which I read the graphic novel (i.e. act out

Lately I’ve made a lot of dedications into my 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA graphic novel at many readings, book events and especially our reading concert (have a look under ‘events) for the comic which simply resonated with EVERYONE (thank you so much for coming!). Here are a few of

Even if it isn’t shown in the graphic novel, there were also drafts and considerations as towhat the cutlery on board the ‘Nautilus‘ could look like. Here’s a spoon from Nemo’ssilverware.

In September I was on a boat trip to Scotland. And although it was very disturbed by storms (we were unable to call many ports and destinations as a result), I am very grateful for having been to cities like Edinburgh (on the day of our visit there, Queen Elizabeth

In July I was on a nice trip to Wallonia. This formerly heavily industrialized region of Belgium is still undergoing massive structural change, but it is already not stingy with attractions, especially since it also has an extremely large number of cultural treasures (cathedrals, churches, rococo town houses, etc.) from

On July 2nd – my mother’s birthday – I had great joy: Not only my dear mother had a very big birthday that day (and was with us!), also in the Museum for Saxon Folk Art in Dresden (Museum “Jägerhof”) an exhibition about Emil Lohse (her grandfather and my great-grandfather)

In June I was at the beautiful Erlangen Comic Salon and immediately after that I was a featured artist at the Austria Comic Con. Both comic festivals were very, very nice – probably the best of this kind I’ve ever been to! Here are a few sketches by visitors of

Last weekend I was in Basel to promote my new graphic novel adaptation of 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA at the Comixshop Basel booth (at the “Fantasy Basel” fair). Tomorrow is the first sale day of this ‘sequel’ to my WAR OF THE WORLDS adaption, and we already had copies

From Ascension Day through the weekend I was in Switzerland to promote my Graphic Novel adaption of 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, at the Comixshop Basel booth at Fantasy Basel (because we already had copies there ahead of the first day of sale, which literally is tomorrow!). It was really