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Birgit weyhe
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'''Birgit Weyhe''', born 1969 in Munich, is a German cartoonist and illustrator.
==Biography==
Weyhe was born in Munich and spent her childhood in Uganda and Kenya. After taking the German college entrance exams, known as the [[Abitur]], she returned at the age of nineteen to Germany and completed a Magister in German Literature and History in Konstanz and Hamburg.<ref name="A"></ref> From 2002 to 2008 she completed an additional course of study in ilustration with Anke Feuchtenberger at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences.<ref>[http://ift.tt/2nH4ZZ6 News Online Journal der HAW Hamburg - ''Comicbuchpreis 2015 geht an Birgit Weyhe''], Artikel von ''Kleist'', 11. September 2014</ref><br />
Weyhe lives and works in Hamburg where she is also employed as a lecturer in the design department of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. <ref>[http://ift.tt/2C0gak7 Homepage der HAW Hamburg: Liste der Beschäftigten]</ref>
In 2007 Weyhe competed in the Fumetto Comix-Festival in Lucerne obtaining the second place prize for the competition theme of ''Future'' and in 2009 she participated in the at Next-Comic Festival in Linz, taking home the first-place prize.<ref></ref><br />
For the Goethe Institute, Weyhe has organized workshops concerning her work in [[Montréal]] ([[Canada]]), [[Montevideo]] ([[Uruguay]]) and [[Córdoba (Argentina)|Córdoba]] ([[Argentina]]).<ref name="B">[http://ift.tt/1iY7Zoo Homepage of Birgit Weyhe]</ref> In 2012 she participated in a several week-long Goethe Institute exchange program for comics artists in [[São Paulo]] ([[Brazil]]) teil.<ref name="B" /> The Polish Goethe Institute recommends Birgit Weyhe's Graphic Novel ''Im Himmel ist Jahrmarkt'' as a primary material to support learning the German language and offers it in a didactically commented form for download on its homepage.<ref>[http://ift.tt/2nElHIH Birgit Weyhes Graphic Novel ''Im Himmel ist Jahrmarkt'' auf der Homepage des Goethe-Instituts Polen]</ref>
== Awards ==
* 2007: Second place at the Fumetto Comix-Festival in Lucerne.
* 2009: First place at the Nextcomic-Festival in Linz
* 2015: Comic Book Prize of the [[Berthold Leibinger Stiftung]] for the graphic novel ''Madgermanes''
* 2016: Max & Moritz Prize for „Best German-language Comic" for ''Madgermanes''
== Selected Works ==
* ''Ich weiß'', Mami Verlag, Berlin 2008.
* [http://ift.tt/2BZFG8Y ''Frozen Ititi'', Excerpt from '' Frozen Charly'', Mami Verlag, 2010, .pdf (downloadable)]
* ''Reigen: Eine Erzählung in zehn Kapiteln'', Avant-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-939080-57-2.
* ''La Ronde: Une histoire en dix chapitres'' (französische Ausgabe von ''Reigen''), Cambourakis, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-916589-97-8.
* ''Im Himmel ist Jahrmarkt'', Johann Ullrich und Birgit Weyhe, Avant-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-939080-81-7.
* ''Madgermanes'', Avant-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945034-42-2.
== References ==
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==Biography==
Weyhe was born in Munich and spent her childhood in Uganda and Kenya. After taking the German college entrance exams, known as the [[Abitur]], she returned at the age of nineteen to Germany and completed a Magister in German Literature and History in Konstanz and Hamburg.<ref name="A"></ref> From 2002 to 2008 she completed an additional course of study in ilustration with Anke Feuchtenberger at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences.<ref>[http://ift.tt/2nH4ZZ6 News Online Journal der HAW Hamburg - ''Comicbuchpreis 2015 geht an Birgit Weyhe''], Artikel von ''Kleist'', 11. September 2014</ref><br />
Weyhe lives and works in Hamburg where she is also employed as a lecturer in the design department of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. <ref>[http://ift.tt/2C0gak7 Homepage der HAW Hamburg: Liste der Beschäftigten]</ref>
In 2007 Weyhe competed in the Fumetto Comix-Festival in Lucerne obtaining the second place prize for the competition theme of ''Future'' and in 2009 she participated in the at Next-Comic Festival in Linz, taking home the first-place prize.<ref></ref><br />
For the Goethe Institute, Weyhe has organized workshops concerning her work in [[Montréal]] ([[Canada]]), [[Montevideo]] ([[Uruguay]]) and [[Córdoba (Argentina)|Córdoba]] ([[Argentina]]).<ref name="B">[http://ift.tt/1iY7Zoo Homepage of Birgit Weyhe]</ref> In 2012 she participated in a several week-long Goethe Institute exchange program for comics artists in [[São Paulo]] ([[Brazil]]) teil.<ref name="B" /> The Polish Goethe Institute recommends Birgit Weyhe's Graphic Novel ''Im Himmel ist Jahrmarkt'' as a primary material to support learning the German language and offers it in a didactically commented form for download on its homepage.<ref>[http://ift.tt/2nElHIH Birgit Weyhes Graphic Novel ''Im Himmel ist Jahrmarkt'' auf der Homepage des Goethe-Instituts Polen]</ref>
== Awards ==
* 2007: Second place at the Fumetto Comix-Festival in Lucerne.
* 2009: First place at the Nextcomic-Festival in Linz
* 2015: Comic Book Prize of the [[Berthold Leibinger Stiftung]] for the graphic novel ''Madgermanes''
* 2016: Max & Moritz Prize for „Best German-language Comic" for ''Madgermanes''
== Selected Works ==
* ''Ich weiß'', Mami Verlag, Berlin 2008.
* [http://ift.tt/2BZFG8Y ''Frozen Ititi'', Excerpt from '' Frozen Charly'', Mami Verlag, 2010, .pdf (downloadable)]
* ''Reigen: Eine Erzählung in zehn Kapiteln'', Avant-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-939080-57-2.
* ''La Ronde: Une histoire en dix chapitres'' (französische Ausgabe von ''Reigen''), Cambourakis, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-916589-97-8.
* ''Im Himmel ist Jahrmarkt'', Johann Ullrich und Birgit Weyhe, Avant-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-939080-81-7.
* ''Madgermanes'', Avant-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945034-42-2.
== References ==
<references />
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