Reinhard Kleist

Reinhard Kleist (born 11 February 1970, Hürth, Germany) is a German graphic designer and cartoonist.

[1] There he created his albums "Lovecraft," "Dorian" and as a thesis "Abenteur eines Weichenstellers".

[2] Since 2003 he has been working together with author Tobias O. Meißner on the comics series "Berlinoir," which is published with Edition 52.

In 2008, Kleist learned Spanish to travel to Cuba, where he drew and sketched street scenes from Havana, which he compiled in the graphic novel "Havanna" in 2007.

[3] Kleist's graphic novel about the Somali runner Samia Yusuf Omar was published in 2015 under the title "Der Traum von Olympia" (The Dream of Olympia).