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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My three work-booklets: “Welcome - a short picturesque journey through the Spree-Neiße district” district Spree-Neiße/ Wokrejs Sprjewja-Nysa 2020; “Workbook Galerie-Safari” Kommunale Galerie Berlin 2023; "Workshop-Heft-Zeichne dein eigenes Comic-Kapitel" Schauraum comic + cartoon Dortmund 2026.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Workshop booklet - draw your own comics chapter Happy to be part of this booklet by Schauraum comic + cartoon, with MIOA-DO municipal integration center, class 8D at Helmholtz-Gymnasium, graphicdesigner S. Lüdemann, all in Dortmund, except me. German language. #schauraumcomicundcartoon #workshopheft

Photo of two same brochures in red and white placedon a light background. One is opened and on top of it a closed one shows the cover. Handdrawn elements and typography are visible.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I opened my Atelier at LANGE NACHT DER BILDER in Berlin Lichtenberg on 4.9. On my wall: 101 ink drawings of L’inconnue de la Seine. Thanks to organisers, guests, and to Karolyn Morovati for the great photos - and for even our artworks going along wonderfully. #linconnuedelaseine #langenachtderbilder

Photo of a person standing in fron of a wall in a normal sized room. The wall is covered with a lot of DIN A 4 drawings of the same face in different colours and on different papers. The standing person has dark clothes, outstretched arms and closed eyes. The face expression is similar to the face on the drawings.

Photo of two people laughing/ smiling, heads and shoulders are visible. One has short hair, the other long; both wear glasses. Behind them on the white wall is abstract artwotk visible, colourful patterns on paper.

Photo of a hall with yellowish floor, white walls and turqoise doors. One door is open, inside the room is visible a patterm of papers on the wall is visible (see photo 1). In the hall next to the door a big paper with artwork in a recurring pattern is hanging. The two artwoks both have rhythm and colours and seem to relate to each other.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My studio will be open at Lange Nacht der Bilder on September 4th, from 6 pm till midnight: Kunstfabrik HB55, Herzbergstrasse 55, Aufgang A, Room 407, 4th floor, in 10367 Berlin Lichtenberg. Come visit me and all the other artists and places: langenachtderbilder.de

drawing of a face on violet aquarell with blue cross hatching and a design element.

Photo of a blues drawing in cross hatching, on packaging paper, with an ink bottle and nib standing on it, made from a bove. And design elements with typography.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Some flipcharts I made on location at the amazing 18th Cottbus & Lower Lusatia Pride on July 11th. More to come, my sketchbook is full... #cottbuspride #csdcb2026 #pride #liveeventdrawing

Felt pen flipchart drawing of Cottbus townhall with a crowd in front of it, a lot of rainbow coloured umbrellas, trees and houses in the background, and a big rainbow above with handwriting in it: 18. CSD Cottbus & Niederlausitz

Flipchart with some scenes frawin with marker: people sitting under raibow umbrellas, holding a line with little rainbow flags between them; a car, a transparent, and a number of people in festive and colourful clothes with rainbow coloured umbrellas; a person speaking into a microphone standing a a small table while next to her somebody translates into gesture language, above them a rainbow coloured umbrella; a person in a pink wheelchair with three people near her and also a rainbow umbrella.

Flipchart with some scenes frawin with marker:A preson in black clothes with a bike, a progress pride flag and red roses fastened at the bike; two people with a big rainbow flag on a natural stick; a small old lady filming with her phone a big man who has a big professional camera with him; Head and shoulders of a young person with short green hair.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Some pictures from our second Rainbow Sketching on July 10th in Cottbus - warming up for Cottbus Pride 2026 the next day! #rainbowsketching #urbansketching #cottbuspride #draussenzeichnen #CSDCB2026

A Photo of the building of Agentur für Arbeit in Cottbus, in the foreground a hand holding a clipboard with a sketch of the building including a rainbow flag

A photo of the Cottbus youth hostel with a rainbow flag hanging from an upper window. In the foreground two hands holding clipboards with sketches of the building with the rainbow flag.

Drawing of the Cottbus youth hostel with a rainbow flag hanging from n upper window above the entrance door.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Join us for session two of Rainbow Sketching in this year's Cottbus Pride Activity Weeks. Meeting point Friday July 10th at Staatstheater Cottbus, 4 pm. More info: 2026.csd-cottbus.info Please register so we can be prepared. #rainbowsketching #urbansketching #cottbuspride #draussenzeichnen

Photo of hands holding two clipboards with coloured pencil drawings of Cottbus townhall. In the background the actual Cottbus townhall is visible, plus blue sky and a few people.

The two coloured pencil drawings of Cottbus townhall on white paper and without background.

Two hands holding two clipboards with coloured pencil drawings of Gladhouse and Obenkino in Cottbus, view from a park with branches of trees above and grass and rose bushes in the foreground.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Rainbow sketching in Cottbus tomorrow! Join us!

Invitation to a rainbow sketching session in Cottbus on the 29th of june. With photo of coloured pencils, drawing of a person holding a giant pencil and a house with a rainbow flag, and graphic elements in rainbow colours.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My Comic-Salon Erlangen: Booksigning at Verlag Schwarzer Turm with Ingrid Sabisch; Comic-Salon Theylangen Workshop "Queer Joy!" with @dirk@mastodon.art at Queeres Zentrum Erlangen. "Comic macht Schule" Vernissage #comicmachtschule. AI and #iceoutcomics @larsvontoerne.bsky.social -and Fürth storks!

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

*Comic-Salon Theylangen* Comics Workshop Queer Joy! Queeres Zentrum Erlangen For Queers & Allies With Dirk Schwieger and Elke Renate Steiner (Berlin) Registration for both meetings required at: Zentrum@makeyourtownqueer.de 6.6.26 at 12 am 7.6.26 at 1 pm Jeweils ca. 2,5 h makeyourtownqueer.de

A collage from four different Comic Panels in colour and black & white, showing moments of magic, flying, elves, and monsters. Colourful typography in one bubble sais: Queer Joy!

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Making Comics with Erlangen school kids was fun! Sweet classes, cool teachers, chalk drawing on the blackboard.  @comicsalonerlangen. Mit Erlanger Schüler:innen Comics zu machen war toll! Süsse KLassen, coole Lehrkräfte, Kreidezeichnungen an der Tafel.  #comicmachtschule  #comicsalonerlangen

Zeichnung am Whiteboard: ein Mensch in einer Blase, piekt über dem Kopf ein Loch hinein.

Markerzeichnung am Whiteboard: Ein Mensch in einem Kasten, unglücklich und eingezwängt.

Mit gelber Kreide auf einer Schultafel geschriebene Wörtersammlung.

Mit weisser Kreide auf einer Schultafel gezeichneter, simpler Comic mit zwei Kästchen: Eine normale Wäscheklammer, die im zweiten Bild Zähne bekommt und gefährlich aussieht.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Comicinvasion Berlin: Closing remarks at our Comics reading Marathon on May 3rd. 14 participants of Workshops for Comics made great lectures. Schlussbemerkungen bei unserem Comic-Lesemarathon am 3. Mai. 14 Teilnehmende der Werkstatt für Comics haben tolle Lesungen gemacht! @comicinvasionberlin

A photo of a stage with three people on it and, seen from the back, a number of people as audience. A big screen is above the stage with wrriting on it. Some beton structure and curtains and a lamp are visible.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

First flipchart of my Live Event Drawings at the Brandenburg Dialogue Forum of Queer Communities on April 17th in Potsdam, hosted by AndersARTIG e.V.

Felt pen drawing of an urban, renovated place with historical buildings and trees, five people gravitating towards a small streeet on the left side; two of them on bikes; above all of it a big Rainbow with Handwritten titel of the event.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Comicinvasion✏️ Berlin Comics Reading Marathon on May 3rd! 3-minutes miniature comics lectures with individual styles, topics and genres by Berlin indepent comics creators - celebrating the Berlin comics community & Workshop for Comics. comicinvasion.berlin/events/2026/...

A vivid invitation picture in blue and yellow, showing several panels with different styles of drawing depicting presentation situations, layout elements/ shapes, and typography.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Comic Basics Workshop with AndersARTIG e.V. in Potsdam this saturday, 21.2.26! Join us! andersartig.info/veranstaltun...

A line drawing with rainbow colours, showing a number of papers or posters hanging in two rows. In front of them five people are standing or sitting, engaging with more papers/ posters.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Open Mic With Accent🎙 Open stage for everyone. Any format. Any language. Any accent. Saligari Bar, Simplonstr. 23, Berlin. Every 2nd Wednesday. Next date: 03.12.2025 Doors open 7 pm, Show 7.30 pm. Join us!

A rough drawing in purple with black lines: a microphon standing on a small stage with a spotlight on it. inside the white of the spotlight are some shadows of ornaments and the headline: OPEN MIC WITH ACCENT.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Fire during the Cottbus Pride activity weeks. Paper container in flames. Facade of the queer center damaged. „We were very lucky today“ said Christian Müller, member of the board of Cottbus Pride. Volunteers reacted immediately, police and fire brigade came quickly, the fire was stopped.

Photo and text about a fire at the Cottbus Pride headquarter yesterday. The photo shoews the damagae on the outside wall after a container was in flames.

Three photos, text, one drawing. First photo: a person stopping the fire with a fire extinguisher . Second photo: The damaged part of the ouside wall next to the entrance to the building with the fire still burning. Third photo: The damaged wall after stopping the fire.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Cottbus & Lower Lusatia Pride Rainbow Party 🌈 Saturday October 25th 2025 from 6 - 11.59 pm at Glad House, Strasse der Jugend 16 in Cottbus. More info: programm.csd-cottbus.info ✏️ 🌈 I´ll be drawing ✏️ 🌈

A photo of rainbow coloured rays of light on a building. In fron of it a number of drawings of people dancing at a party. Below text information and more drawings: A beautiful drag queen speakjing into a microphone and a person wearing a big rainbow flag. colourful ornaments, stripes and dots, fill the spaces in between these elements.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

🌈 Pride March Cottbus & LowerLusatia: Saturday October 2025 from 2 pm till 6.30 pm. Meeting point: Berliner Platz in front of the Cottbus townhall. Join us in solidarity. ✏️ I´ll be drawing 🌈 More info: demo.csd-cottbus.info 🌈 Attention: 2 counterdemonstrations.

Photo of a pride march in an urban environment with rainbow flags, in the middle of a big street under traffic lights and blue sky. Below a few drawings of people, and text about the event.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Cottbus Pride Activity Weeks are starting soon, activists are contacting shops and institutions. www.csd-cottbus.info/index.php/de... 1. Let´s ask here. - Ok! 2. Do you want to hang the rainbow flag? 3. Yes, I´ll do that. 4. No, I will have to ask my boss.

A comic with four panels:

1.two people standing in front of a shop, carrying a rainbow flag. "Let´s ask here."- "Ok!"

2.Inside the shop. The shopkeeper looks at the rainbow flag, the two visitors offer her to hang it. "Do you want to hang the rainbow flag?"

3. The two visitors leave the shop, the shop keeper already put the rainbow flag inside the shop window with tape. "Yes, I´ll do that."

They all arewaving to each other. 4. The shop keeper leaning on the counter makin a goodbye gesture. "No, I will have to ask my boss." The visitors leaving the shop, taking the rainbow flag witrh them. Friendly waving good bye.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Erlangen tonight! This friday september 19th from 7 - 9 pm I will talk and draw with you at Talk Cafe (Erzählcafe), Kellerbühne im E-Werk Erlangen. Join us! Thank you Lebenshilfe Erlangen

A comic with four pictures: 1. A cat looking out of her transport box on an airplane. 2. two people itting with the transport box and cat inside between them. 3. two people on the airport with the transport box with the cat inside, one of them waving for a taxi. 4. the transport box on a wooden floor with open door, the cat stepping outside and looking around curiously. Below the invitation text.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

My eventful life. A Berlin illiterate is reporting. Fred Volkmann In 2007 I created illustrations for the autobiography of Fred Volkmann, adult learner of reading and writing. It was inspiring to meet the community of learners at Lesen + Schreiben in Berlin Neukälln. www.lesen-schreiben.com

Black and white book title illustration showing a round floral structure like a bush. Through the branches and leafs a young face is visible, upside down, looking confused and a bit worried. With one hand the person is holding back the branches to have a better view of the outside (or us, as the readers/ audience) while staying partly covered.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Save the date ✨17. CSD Cottbus & Niederlausitz 🌈 13. - 25.10.2025 🌈 Cottbus & Lower Lusatia Pride 🌈 Vereint in Frieden und Vielfalt, 🌈 United in peace and diversity 🌈 Zgromadnje w měrje a wjelerakosći 🌈 www.csd-cottbus.info

Save the date: 17. CSD Cottbus & Niederlausitz 13. - 25.10.2025 Cottbus & Lower Lusatia Prode Vereint in Frieden und Vielfalt, United in peace and diversity / Zgromadnje w měrje a wjelerakosći www.csd-cottbus.info

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Live Event drawing: Rainy start of the very interesting conference „young help + care“ at Arbeitskammer Saarlands Educational Center in Kirkel last Wednesday. Around 130 young people working in health and care, 7 workshops and a lot of discussions. Looking forward to colouring! Www.arbeitskammer.de

Black and white drawing of the entrance to a modern building in the rain. A lot of young people gathering in fron of it with umbrellas and in good mood.

Two drawings in black and white with headline and text. Above a group of people discussing, and a sequence of a stopwatch, a meal, and weak desperate person in a bed (in need of care). The text is about what is violence in care?
Below three people standing, stretching, and two pieces of green broccoli. The text sais that if the working conditions are not good, you can eat as much broccoli as you want, it does not help.

Two black and white drawings with little colour. Above illustration is about dementia: an angry person sitting claims: i already ate! The care person comes with a mesl and offers kindly: are you still hungry?
Below drawing is about good communications: two people sitting, one is standing and in consent putting her hand on the shoulder of one of them, saying „thank you“. Above them the chemical symbol of oxitocin is sketched.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I made two children’s books so far: „Bella‘s Brazilian Football“ and „Bella’s Chocolate Surprise“ in 2007. Written by Adam Guillain as part of the series around young heroine Bella Balistica. Published by Milet Books Ltd., bilingual and multicultural books for children and adults. www.milet.com

A square book cover with blue sky and green grass; three kids with different skin tones running towards us and after a white football. In the background a London skyline, in an upper corner a Quetzal bird is flying.

A square book cover in yellow and green, in the foreground kid with sports shirt and long black hair holding a chocolate bar. Above in the air a Quetzal bird. In the background two kids playing football with a blue makeshift ball, and an adult woman carrying a wrapped birthday present.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Invitation to join our Endless Comics Workshop made by library visitors at Helene-Nathan-Library Berlin Neukölln, Monday 26th of May 2025 from 2.30 pm - 5.30 pm. No registration, no costs. Just come by and join us: Karl-Marx-Str. 66, 12043 Berlin. www.berlin.de/stadtbibliot...

Poster in black, white, grey and yellow, with 5 Comic Panels, drawings, text, stars and speedlines. It is inviting library visitors to join an endless comics workshop at Helene Nathan Library in Berlin Neukölln on Monday 26th of May 2025 from 2.30 pm till 5.30 pm. No registration, entrance is free.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

First experience with an urban sketchers event last week. #uskberlin

Black and white ink drawing of the french cathedral on Gendarmenmarkt Berlin, steep perspective, with an urban sketchers stamp.

Black and white ink drawing of the french cathedral on Gendarmenmarkt Berlin with an urban sketchers stamp

A number of open sketch books laying on the pavement

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

It´s Lesbian visibility week & our 10th anniversary! How it all started: "Love Migration", tells the first chapter of love and marriage between a russian LGBT+ activist and a german comics creator. Autobiographical, self-published 2019, 36 pages, supported by Quarteera e.V.: www.quarteera.de/en/

Colourful drawing of two women walking hand in hand with a trolley bag- On the trolley bag is sitting a grey cart, and a PRIDE sticker with rainbow colours is on the side.
In the backlground is a big Rainbow, connecting the TV tower of Berlin on the lefdt and opening bridges of Saint Petersburg on the right side. Ships and a plane, stars and symbols of flying birds are visible.
Inside the big rainbow the title of the comic is written: Love Migration.

A comic page with six panels in yellow and black, describing how two people, standing on different sides of a line of russian police officers, talk to each other on mobile phones and then comicg together by pushing through the lines of police officers. The atmosphere is serious and tensioned.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Comicprojekt „Wie geht es Dir?“ ✏️ Comics project „How are you?“ Comics creators against antisemitism , hate and racism. 60 dialogues and stories. The book is out, & I am part of it! #wiegehtesdircomics #comics

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

"Bloß nicht resignieren!" - "Do not resign!" Peggy Parnass is not here any more. Thankfully the publicist and activist wrote a number of books. I was present at some lectures, deeply impressed. One is visible on this comic page in "Rendsburg Prinzessinstrasse". www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Two flat long landscape black and white Panels in scratchboard technique, looking similar like a woodprint or linocut.

The above picture shows the upper body of six people from their backside -an audiernce to a lecture. In the background, face to us, is sitting a person with long hair and glasses, with a book on her lap, in an aermchair - Peggy Parnass giving a lecture.

In the picture below an open door and parts of a breick building are visible. Inside is light and some people. Outside it is dark, and more people are visible as well as a bust of a bearded person on a pedestral.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Event drawings from last saturday's AIDS Charity Gala at shopping center Blechen Carree in Cottbus. It was awesome! www.aids-hilfe-lausitz.de #aidshilfelausitz #blechencaree #cottbus #aidsawareness #eventdrawing #evalabosse #misscherrymoonlight #steinercomix

felt pen drawings, some coloured, some black and white, of musicians, music technicians and a Drag Queen

Felt pen drawings of dancers, a choir, and a person in festive clothes with a hawkers tray. Drawings partly coloured, partly black and white.

black and white felt pen drawings of jumping/ dancing children (with red AIDS awarenessribbons on their pullovers), a drag queen performing, a person speaking calmly with a piece of paper in their hand, and 4 people from the audience filming and making photos with their mobile phones.

a person with a walkie talkie in their hand, sand a group of child, Kinderwagen, kneeling motrher a a person in a storks costume, the mascvot of AIDs Hilfe Lausitz. Drawing in black and white

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

„Risiken und Nebenwirkungen“, a comic on abuse of medicine, published 2010 by Gütersloher Verlagshaus as the first of several non-fiction Grapic Novels. Learned a lot from mentors of the advisory center FAM on alcohol/ medicament abuse in Berlin. Sometimes I find the book on second hand platforms.

black book cover with different people drawn in black anmd white, floatinghead up or head down. Also colourful pills and drops floating between therm. turqoise elements with typography.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

"Die anderen Mendelssohns" (The other Mendelssohns) I and II have been published by Reprodukt in 2004 and 2015. They are comics biographies of descendants of the german philosoper Moses Mendelssohn: Dorothera Schlegel, Arnold Mendelssohn, and Karl Mendelssohn Bartholdy. reprodukt.com/search?type=...

2 book cover on members of the german Mendelssohn family. One title is a drawing in red, white and black colour; it shows three people and a painting in the background. The second title is a drawing in blue, white and black colour; it shows one person on a desk with a nib with statues in the background.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My first comicbook „Rendsburg Prinzessinstrasse - die Geschichte einer jüdischen Kleinstadtgemeinde“ (the story of a jewish small town community). Published 2001 by edition panel, 2nd printing 2021, available at Jüdisches Museum Rendsburg www.jmrd.de

Two book covers, both showing a red brick building from different angels. The title is the same: Elke Renate Steiner. Rendsburg Prinzessinstrasse - die Geschichte einer jüdischen Kleinstadtgemeinde.

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