{{Short description|German cartoonist (born 1977)}} {{Infobox comics creator | image = FrankfurterBuchmesse2022-005BarbaraYelin (cropped 2023).jpg | caption = At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022 | birth_date = 26 July 1977 | birth_place = Munich, Germany | area = cartoonist | notable works = | collaborators = | awards = {{hlist|Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis|Max & Moritz Prize|Ernst-Hoferichter-Preis}} | website = http://www.barbarayelin.de./ | bodyclass = }} '''Barbara Yelin''' ({{Audio|De-barbara-yelin.ogg|pronunciation}}; 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.<ref name="10:dewp" />
==Career== She first published the comic stories {{lang|fr|Le visiteur}} (2004) and {{lang|fr|Le retard}} (2006) in France. In Germany, she drew contributions for the anthologies ''Spring''.<ref name="1:dewp">{{cite web |title=Home : SPRING |url=http://www.springmagazin.de/ |website=www.springmagazin.de |access-date=10 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref> 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 {{lang|de|Riekes Notizen}}, and Reprodukt published a selection of the strips in 2013.<ref name="perlentaucher">{{cite web |title=Barbara Yelin: Riekes Notizen – Perlentaucher |url=https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/barbara-yelin/riekes-notizen.html |website=www.perlentaucher.de |access-date=10 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref> [[File:Barbara Yelin 2015-103.JPG|thumb|left|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.<ref name="3:dewp">Petra Morsbach: "Wie ich lernte, Comics zu lieben", in: ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', 5 Dezember 2015, p. 20</ref> As of March 2022, Yelin's work has been translated into 10 languages, including English, French, Italian, Dutch, and Turkish.<ref name="4:dewp">{{cite web |title=Editions of Irmina by Barbara Yelin |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/43444497-irmina?per_page=25&utf8=%E2%9C%93 |website=www.goodreads.com |access-date=10 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
From autumn 2015, together with the author Thomas von Steinaecker, she published the web sequel comic {{lang|de|Der Sommer ihres Lebens}},<ref name="5:dewp">{{cite web |title=S. Fischer Verlage |url=https://www.fischerverlage.de/magazin |website=S. Fischer Verlage |access-date=10 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref> which was also published as a book by Reprodukt in 2016.
In 2018, Carlsen Verlag published {{lang|de|Die Unheimlichen}}, Yelin's adaptation of {{lang|de|Das Wassergespenst von Harrowby Hall}} in the series edited by Isabel Kreitz. In 2019, Yelin self-published {{lang|de|Unsichtbar}}, in which she tells the story of an Eritrean refugee in collaboration with Ursula Yelin.<ref name="6:dwp">{{cite web |title="Aber ich lebe!" |url=https://arolsen-archives.org/news/aber-ich-lebe/ |website=Arolsen Archives |access-date=10 June 2023 |language=de-DE |date=17 March 2021}}</ref> thumb|Winner, Ernst Hoferichter Prize 2022
In cooperation with Alex Rühle, the children's book {{lang|de|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.<ref name="7:dewp">{{cite web |title="Aber ich lebe!" |url=https://arolsen-archives.org/news/aber-ich-lebe/ |website=Arolsen Archives |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=de-DE |date=17 March 2021}}</ref> The book portrays three Holocaust survivors in the format of graphic novels.<ref name="8:dewp">{{cite web |title=But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust – Hardcover |url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/but-i-live-charlotte-schalli/1141375650?ean=9781487526849 |website=Barnes & Noble |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
In 2012, Yelin was appointed visiting professor for comics and graphic novels at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar.<ref name="9:dewp">{{cite web |title=Alle Infos zur Person: Barbara Yelin |url=https://www.hbksaar.de/personen/details/yelin |website=www.hbksaar.de |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref> 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.<ref name="10:dewp">{{cite web |title=Writer-in-Residence: Barbara Yelin |url=https://www.grinnell.edu/news/writer-residence-barbara-yelin |website=Grinnell College |access-date=11 June 2023 |date=10 April 2018 |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref name="11:dewp">{{cite web |title=Monacensia im Hildebrandhaus: Comic Bar: Der Spalt |url=https://www.muenchner-stadtbibliothek.de/veranstaltungen/details/comic-bar-der-spalt-10818 |website=muenchner-stadtbibliothek.de |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=de-DE |date=19 October 2021}}</ref>
==Personal life== Yelin was a member of the Berlin Atelier ''Bilderbureau''.<ref name="12:dewp">{{cite news |author1=<!--not stated--> |title=Der Tagesspiegel-Fragebogen (2): 15 Fragen an – Barbara Yelin |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comics/15-fragen-an-barbara-yelin-8093293.html |access-date=11 June 2023 |work=Der Tagesspiegel Online |date=9 August 2010 |language=de-DE}}</ref> She works and lives with her partner and their son in Munich.
== Awards (selection) == * 2015, Prix Artémisia<ref name="14:dewp">[https://associationartemisia.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/prix-artemisia-2015-la-selection/ ''Prix Artémisia 2015 : la sélection''], bei association artemisia</ref> * 2015, Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis * 2016, Max & Moritz Prize, category, "Best German-language Comic Artist" * 2016, Residency grant from the Künstlerresidenz Chretzeturm, Stein am Rhein<ref name="15:dewp">{{cite web |url=https://www.barbarayelin.de/uebermich/ |title=Über mich |date=4 August 2017}}</ref> * 2017 Nomination for an Eisner Award<ref name="16:dewp">[https://www.reprodukt.com/Produkt/comics/uber-unterwegs-ein-jahreskalender-von-barbara-yelin/ ''Reprodukt Verlag''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627121516/https://www.reprodukt.com/Produkt/comics/uber-unterwegs-ein-jahreskalender-von-barbara-yelin/ |date=2020-06-27 }}, 25 July 2020</ref> * 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"<ref name="18:dewp">[http://rudolphdirksaward.de/ ''Website Rudolph Dirks Award''], 25 July 2020</ref> * 2021, Ernst-Hoferichter-Preis<ref name="19:dewp">{{cite web |website=muenchen.de |url=https://ru.muenchen.de/2020/225/Preistraegerinnen-fuer-den-Ernst-Hoferichter-Preis-stehen-fest-93664 |title=Preisträger*innen für den Ernst-Hoferichter-Preis stehen fest |language=de |date=18 November 2021}}</ref> * 2021, Working grant for Munich authors<ref name="20:dewp">[https://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Kulturreferat/Literatur/Stipendien-Literatur/literatur-arbeitsstipendium.html Stadt München], 18 November 2021.</ref> * 2025, Großer Preis der Deutschen Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur e.V. Volkach<ref>[https://www1.wdr.de/kultur/kulturnachrichten/jugendliteratur-preis-barbara-yelin-100.html "Jugendliteratur-Preis für Comic-Zeichnerin Barbara Yelin"]. ''wdr.de'', 4 September 2025 (in German). Retrieved 4 September 2025.</ref>
==Selected works== * With Gilad Seliktar, Miriam Libicki: ''But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust''. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2022, {{ISBN|978-1-48752684-9}} * With Paul-Moritz Rabe (Herausgeber): ''Tagebuch eines Zwangsarbeiters''. Verlag C. H. Beck, Munich 2022, {{ISBN|978-3-406-78165-0}} * With Alex Rühle: ''Gigaguhl und das Riesen-Glück''. dtv Junior, Munich 2020, {{ISBN|978-3-423-76286-1}} * ''Die Unheimlichen: Das Wassergespenst von Harrowby Hall''. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2018, {{ISBN|978-3-551-71350-6}} * With Thomas von Steinaecker: ''Der Sommer ihres Lebens''. Reprodukt, Berlin 2017, {{ISBN|978-3-95640-135-0}} * With David Polonsky: ''Vor allem eins: Dir selbst sei treu. Die Schauspielerin Channa Maron''. Reprodukt, Berlin 2016, {{ISBN|978-3-95640-102-2}} * ''Irmina''. Reprodukt, Berlin 2014, {{ISBN|978-3-95640-006-3}} * ''Riekes Notizen''. Vorwort Hella von Sinnen. Reprodukt, Berlin 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-943143-51-5}} * ''Vincent van Gogh''. Kunst-Comic, with Mona Horncastle, Prestel, Munich 2011, {{ISBN|978-3-7913-7071-2}} * ''Albrecht Dürer''. Kunst-Comic, with Mona Horncastle, Prestel, Munich 2011, {{ISBN|978-3-7913-7070-5}} * ''Gift''. with Peer Meter, Reprodukt, Berlin 2010, {{ISBN|978-3-941099-41-8}} * ''Le retard''. Translated from the German by Thierry Groensteen. Edition de l’An 2, Angoulême DL 2006, {{ISBN|978-2-84856-068-7}} * ''Le visiteur''. Edition de l’An 2, Angoulême DL 2004, {{ISBN|978-2-84856-029-8}}
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== * [http://www.barbarayelin.de./ Personal website] * {{DNB-Portal|140829776}} * {{Perlentaucher|barbara-yelin}}
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