Biography of Gerhard Seyfried
- born in Munich in 1948
- 1963–67, apprenticeship as industrial clerk
- 1967, trained as commercial artist
- from 1967, study of art and graphics at Akademie für das Graphische Gewerbe, Munich
- from 1970, freelance illustrator and caricaturist for advertising agencies, local companies, and drawings for Das Blatt, Munich
- based in Berlin since 1976
- since 1978, several study trips to the USA
- since 1990, has worked with Ziska Riemann
- since 1998, author and scriptwriter
- 1999, first working trip to Namibia
- 2003, second working trip to Namibia
- 2003, working trip to Switzerland
- 2004 return to Berlin
Awards and prizes:
- 1990, Max-und-Moritz prize for best German-language comic artist
- 2007 Wilhelm Busch Promotional Prize
