Anthology contribution, 2023
‘Gerne würdest du allen so viel sagen’ (“You would like to say so much to everyone”) published by Avant-Verlag, Germany - editor link / review link Leipziger Zeitung
“You would like to say so much to everyone” presents 16 documentary comic stories. These range from the drastic events of the 20th century to the current challenges for democracy.
review at Leipziger Zeitung
The collection is divided into three sections: on the one hand, the personal stories passed down in the family about war and displacement. On the other hand, the authors provide insights into biographical experiences and, finally, current observations in the context of memory. A look into the mirror of the 20th century.
The list of comic artists who have come together in this anthology reads like the “Who's Who” of the Berlin cartoonist scene: Bianca Schaalburg, Katharina Greve, Till Lukat, Hannah Brinkmann, Julia Bernhard, Jakob Hinrichs, Katia Fouquet, Thomas Gilke, Karolina Chyżewska, Sheree Domingo and many more.
In German-Polish cooperation with the Pilecki Institute Berlin
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My contribution: THE LADOS GROUP - Consuls of Europe
‘The Lados Group - Consuls of Europe’ is a 16-page story part of the Living Archive project, a documentary comics laboratory orchestrated by Pilecki Institute Berlin. During six months starting in October 2020, sixteen selected comic book authors living in Berlin worked on topics about the recent history of Europe, totalitarian regimes and its consequences.
The institute facilitated the communication between the artists, the Institute staff, researchers, historians and its extensive network of contributors.
My story focused on the exceptional activities of the Polish Embassy in Bern during the Second World War, more specifically on an operation started in. 1942 of producing illegal Latin-American passports in order to save as may Jewish lives from extermination as possible.
The whole story is based on facts and historical evidence and was created with the help of experts in the field, and with access to archives and research on the topic.
The final work is expected to be published in book format still in the year of 2021.
May 2021
