Awards
Favourite sweater
- Recommended by the German Academy for Children's and Young Adult Literature as a love book tip in March 2024 under the seal "Fit for the Future"
- On the shortlist (2024) of the Stiftung Buchkunst
- "Favourite Sweater" is under the Golden Pinwheel Finalists 2024
- Selected for the Braw Amazing Bookshelf 2025
Polka for Igor
- Winner of the German Children’s Literature Award 2019 (Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis) Category Picture Book and Special Award New Talent.
- Winner of Serafina 2018.
- On the list of »Der Rote Elefant«.
- On the longlist of the Most Beautiful German Books 2018 by Stiftung Buchkunst/Foundation Book Art.
The Climate Pigs
- Selected for the Braw Amazing Bookshelf 2022
- Favorite book of the visitors jury for the exhibition of the Troisdorf Picture Book Prize 2021
- Recommended by German Academy for Children and Youth Literature as Climate-Book Tip May 2020
- KIMI-Seal
- Selected for the Braw Amazing Bookshelf Sustainability 2025
Suddenly Silence
- Honorary Appreciation by Stiftung Buchkunst/Foundation Book Art – »Best Book Design from all over the World« 2017
- Winner of the German Design Award 2017 (Gold - category Editorial)
- Winner of Schönste Deutsche Bücher – Most Beautiful German Books 2016 by Stiftung Buchkunst /Foundation Book Art
Finn Flosse Cleans up the Ocean
- nominated for Serafina 2015, an illustrators’ young talent award presented by the German Academy of Literature for Children and Young Readers
- Climate Book Recommendation Oct. 2015, by The German Academy of Literature for Children and Young Readers, as a valuable book to raise climate awareness
- on the shortlist of the Most Beautiful German Books 2016 by Stiftung Buchkunst/Foundation Book Art
And Then the Head Explodes
- Winner of the German Children’s Literature Award (Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis) 2015
- Beauty and the Book Award Winner, Frankfurt Book Fair 2014
- Joseph Binder Award - prize-winning entry
- on the longlist of the Most Beautiful German Books 2014 by Stiftung Buchkunst /Foundation Book Art
- nominated for the Serafina 2014, a young talent award for illustrators by the German Academy of Literature for Children and Young Readers in cooperation with the Frankfurt Book Fair/Foundation Book Art
Mascha and the Bear
- Plague at the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (BIB) 2015
- German Design Award – Nominee 2015
- Honoured by the Joseph-Binder-Award Jury
- Award by the Federal State of Saxonia 2014, 3rd place (Sächsischer Staatspreis für Design)
- White Ravens 2014
- e.o. Plauen-Advancement Award 2013