Rotraut Susanne Berner
Rotraut Susanne Berner (born 26 August 1948, in Stuttgart) is a German graphic designer and illustrator. She illustrated The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
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Rotraut Susanne Berner
- Born
- 1948
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- Germany
- Occupation
- illustrator · writer · children's writer · editor · graphic artist · journalist
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Rotraut Susanne Berner (born 26 August 1948, in Stuttgart) is a German graphic designer and illustrator. She illustrated The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
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She is well known for a series of popular children's book, called Wimmelbilderbuch, which have attained a worldwide circulation of close to 500,000 copies in fifteen countries. Working as a freelance illustrator, she has focused on books for children and young adults, illustrating more than 80 such books and designing over 800 book covers. For her contribution as a children's illustrator Berner was a finalist for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002, 2004, and 2014, and she won it in 2016.
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- Rotraut Susanne Berner: Germany ⋆ Illustrator, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 2014
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- Rotraut Susanne Berner: Germany ★ Illustrator, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 2012
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2012
- Rotraut Susanne Berner: Illustrator – Germany, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 2016
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2016
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- “Rotraut Susanne Berner”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q118342: Rotraut Susanne Berner
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- 1.Wimmelwelt im Hinterhof. 2009-03-23.
- 2.Glosse Feuilleton: Um Wimmels willen!. 2007-07-11. 0174-4909.
- 3.Autorin sieht Zensur. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. 12. Juli 2007.
- 4.Aufregung um Kinderbuch: US-Verlag gibt Penis-Okay. 2008-01-16. 2195-1349.
- 5.Die „Tollen Hefte“ werden eingestellt.
- 6.Sonderpreisjury AKJ. jugendliteratur.org.
- 7.AKJ- www.akj.de. Sonderpreisjury AKJ.
- 8.Cornelia Geissler: Wimmelndes Leben. In: Berliner Zeitung. 26. August 2008, S. 28.
- 9.Feier für Schöpferin der Wimmelbücher zum 70. Geburtstag. 2018-01-11.
- 10.Verdienstorden des Landes an 22 verdiente Persönlichkeiten. 2024-04-19.
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scholarly publication
Rotraut Susanne Berner: Germany ⋆ Illustrator, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 2014Crossref registry
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Rotraut Susanne Berner: Germany ★ Illustrator, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 2012Crossref registry
Institutional witnessscholarly publication
Rotraut Susanne Berner: Illustrator – Germany, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 2016Crossref registry
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