Birgit Weyhe

[1] From 2002 to 2008 she completed an additional course of study in illustration with Anke Feuchtenberger at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences.

[3] In 2007 Weyhe competed in the Fumetto Comix-Festival in Lucerne obtaining the second place prize for the competition theme of Future and in 2009 she participated in the at Next-Comic Festival in Linz, taking home the first-place prize.

[4] For the Goethe Institute, Weyhe has organized workshops concerning her work in Montréal (Canada), Montevideo (Uruguay) and Córdoba (Argentina).

[5] In 2012 she participated in a several week-long Goethe Institute exchange program for comics artists in São Paulo (Brazil) teil.

[5] The Polish Goethe Institute recommends Birgit Weyhe's Graphic Novel Im Himmel ist Jahrmarkt as a primary material to support learning the German language and offers it in a didactically commented form for download on its homepage.