Barbara Yelin

The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is illustration and comic. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin. Distinctions recorded are Ernst Hoferichter Prize, Schwabing Art Prize, Max und Moritz award and prix Artemisia.

• Born — 26 July 1977 • Birthplace — Munich, Germany • Area — cartoonist • Awards — * Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis • Max & Moritz Prize • Ernst-Hoferichter-Preis • Website — http: www.barbarayelin.de./

Barbara Yelin studied illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and graduated in 2004.

She first published the comic stories Le visiteur (2004) and Le retard (2006) in France. In Germany, she drew contributions for the anthologies Spring. and Pomme d'amour. In 2010, she produced her comic Gift about the story of Gesche Gottfried based on a scenario by Peer Meter. Between 2011 and 2012, the Frankfurter Rundschau regularly published her comic strip Riekes Notizen, and Reprodukt published a selection of the strips in 2013. • Illustration — In Dortmund (2015) In 2014, her story Irmina about a collaborator during the Nazi Germany period, was also published by Reprodukt, with which she also covered some of her own family history. As of March 2022, Yelin's work has been translated into 10 languages, including English, French, Italian, Dutch, and Turkish. From autumn 2015, together with the author Thomas von Steinaecker, she published the web sequel comic Der Sommer ihres Lebens, which was also published as a book by Reprodukt in 2016. In 2018, Carlsen Verlag published Die Unheimlichen, Yelin's adaptation of Das Wassergespenst von Harrowby Hall in the series edited by Isabel Kreitz. In 2019, Yelin self-published Unsichtbar, in which she tells the story of an Eritrean refugee in collaboration with Ursula Yelin. • Illustration — Winner, Ernst Hoferichter Prize 2022 In cooperation with Alex Rühle, the children's book Gigaguhl und das Riesen-Glück was published by dtv Junior in 2020. In May 2022, But I live was published by the University of Toronto Press, in which Yelin talks about remembrance, based on the life of Holocaust survivor Emmie Arbel. The book portrays three Holocaust survivors in the format of graphic novels. In 2012, Yelin was appointed visiting professor for comics and graphic novels at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar. During the period of 2013 to 2015, she was a lecturer at the "Comic-Seminar" in Erlangen. In 2018, she was a writer-in-residence at Grinnell College in Iowa. Also since 2018, she has been teaching at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Since 2018, she has directed and moderated the Comic Bar, a series of lectures by the Munich City Library with international guests.

Yelin was a member of the Berlin Atelier Bilderbureau. She works and lives with her partner and their son in Munich.

• With Gilad Seliktar, Miriam Libicki: But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2022, • With Paul-Moritz Rabe (Herausgeber): Tagebuch eines Zwangsarbeiters. Verlag C. H. Beck, Munich 2022, • With Alex Rühle: Gigaguhl und das Riesen-Glück. dtv Junior, Munich 2020, • Die Unheimlichen: Das Wassergespenst von Harrowby Hall. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2018, • With Thomas von Steinaecker: Der Sommer ihres Lebens. Reprodukt, Berlin 2017, • With David Polonsky: Vor allem eins: Dir selbst sei treu. Die Schauspielerin Channa Maron. Reprodukt, Berlin 2016, • Irmina. Reprodukt, Berlin 2014, • Riekes Notizen. Vorwort Hella von Sinnen. Reprodukt, Berlin 2013, • Vincent van Gogh. Kunst-Comic, with Mona Horncastle, Prestel, Munich 2011, • Albrecht Dürer. Kunst-Comic, with Mona Horncastle, Prestel, Munich 2011, • Gift. with Peer Meter, Reprodukt, Berlin 2010, • Le retard. Translated from the German by Thierry Groensteen. Edition de l’An 2, Angoulême DL 2006, • Le visiteur. Edition de l’An 2, Angoulême DL 2004,