Simon Schwartz (artist)

When he was 18 months old he moved with his parents to West Germany, where the family lived in the Berlin district of Kreuzbreg.

It tells the story of how his parents left the East Germany, with him as a small child, and the difficulties they encountered.

His second graphic novel Packeis (Pack ice) was published in 2012, as a French translation in 2014 and in English in 2015, as First Man: Reimagining Matthew Henson.

It is a fictional story based on the life of the African-American explorer Matthew Henson, who was part of the 1909 expedition that claimed to be the first to reach the North Pole.

[6] In 2012 Schwartz created the 7.5 m high and 40 m long graphic work "Thüringen im Herbst" (Thuringia in Autumn) for the Memorial and Education Centre Andreasstrasse, a museum in Erfurt which is housed in a former Stasi remand prison for political prisoners.

Simon Schwartz at the "Comic Salon", Erlangen in 2014
The "Kubus" at the Memorial and Education Centre Andreasstrasse , Erfurt, on which Schwartz's work "Thuringia in Autumn" is drawn.