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Elke Renate Steiner - The Headscarves
The controversy on headscarves and its stereotypes inspired me to watch and sketch the variety of this garment in public space.
Here is a small selection.
Elke Renate Steiner
Elke Renate Steiner | Photo (detail): © Ekaterina Bodyagina
Elke Renate Steiner was born in Bremen, Germany in 1971. She studied Free Art and Visual Communication in Münster/Westphalia. She has been working as a freelance cartoonist and illustrator in Berlin since 2000.
Her work focuses on German-Jewish history, human rights, and feminist and LGBT issues. Her drawings also deal with Russia, an interest derived from the fact that her wife is Russian by birth.
Steiner is generally interested in history and biographies. Her major work Die anderen Mendelssohns revolves around the "black sheep" of the famous Mendelssohn family. The first volume was published in 2004 and produced in cooperation with the Jüdische Kulturtage and the Jüdische Volkshochschule in Berlin. As an illustrator, she has worked on Adam Giullain's children's books Bella’s Brazilian Football and Bella's Chocolate Surprise .
International comic conventions such as the Comic Salon Erlangen and the Fumetto Comix Festival Luzern are a particularly huge influence and inspiration to her. She enjoys the research, the cooperation with experts, and the interviews.
Since 2002, Elke Renate Steiner has been giving comic workshops for adults, adolescents, and children, including at several Goethe-Institutes. Additionally, she regularly does live drawing, gives lectures, and campaigns for the federal programme Demokratie leben! (Live Democracy!) in the Spree-Neiße district of Berlin.
All Comics on the topic
According to the Scottish Karrie Fransman all countries have positive achievements. Everywhere people mix, there is no 100% in a nation.
As our history has told us so many times, people are different and have different values all over the world. If we are going to live together, we need to stop and think for a while.
Tatiana Goldberg is a Danish illustrator and a licensed psychologist. Ali and the Box is a mosaic assembled from several different stories about refugee children she has encountered in her work.
With these seven drawings, I have attempted to draw focus on the situation of fleeing refugees by juxtaposing them to wealthy and comfortable Europeans in carefree indifference.
Sofie Louise Dam from Denmark quotes university Professor Gayatri Spivak, co-founder of postcolonial theory: “The subordinates have no voice”.
German Birgit Weyhe depicts the life of the Afghan Hasan and of the German Hans. Born at the same time their life is so different only because of their nationality.
About the difficulty to explain the way we feel and think