Barbara Yelin

Barbara Yelin (; born 26 July 1977 in Munich) is a German cartoonist who has won several awards in Germany including the Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis, Max & Moritz Prize, and the Ernst-Hoferichter-Preis. As an educator, she has been affiliated with Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar and University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Education Barbara Yelin studied illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and graduated in 2004. 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 , and Reprodukt published a selection of the strips in 2013.

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 , which was also published as a book by Reprodukt in 2016.

In 2018, Carlsen Verlag published , Yelin's adaptation of in the series edited by Isabel Kreitz. In 2019, Yelin self-published , in which she tells the story of an Eritrean refugee in collaboration with Ursula Yelin.

In cooperation with Alex Rühle, the children's book 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.

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

Awards (selection) 2015, Prix Artémisia 2015, Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis 2016, Max & Moritz Prize, category, "Best German-language Comic Artist" 2016, Residency grant from the Künstlerresidenz Chretzeturm, Stein am Rhein 2017 Nomination for an Eisner Award 2018, Calendar Prize of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018, Rudolph-Dirks-Award for "Der Sommer ihres Lebens" with Thomas von Steinaecker 2019, Rudolph-Dirks-Award for "Das Wassergespenst von Harrowby Hall" 2021, Ernst-Hoferichter-Preis 2021, Working grant for Munich authors 2025, Großer Preis der Deutschen Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur e.V. Volkach

Selected works 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,