Sascha Hommer

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“Cartoline da Basilea”

For Internazionale issue 851, Internazionale srl, Italy 2010.

About

I am a freelance illustrator and comic artist, living in Hamburg.
Contact me: sashommer(at)gmail.com or +49 175 889 4412

Biography

Born in 1979
2002—2008 Studies at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg under Prof. Anke Feuchtenberger
2003—2013 Editor of the comic anthology "Orang"
2006—now Operations for Comicfestival Hamburg
2016—now Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg

Bibliography

Germany
"Insekt", Reprodukt, Berlin 2006/2008
"Im Museum 1: Die Treppe zum Himmel", Reprodukt, Berlin 2008
"Vier Augen", Reprodukt, Berlin 2009
"Im Museum 2: Archive des Zerfalls", Reprodukt, Berlin 2010
"Dri Chinisin", Reprodukt, Berlin 2011
"In China", Reprodukt, Berlin 2016
International
"Insekt", Kultura Gniewu, Poland 2007
"Insekt", Edition Sarbacane, France 2007
"Insekt", Sins Entido, Spain 2008
"Cuatro Ojos", Sins Entido, Spain 2010
"W cztery oczy“, Kultura Gniewu, Poland 2010
"Quatre Yeux", Atrabile, Switzerland 2012
"Dri Chinisin", L'Association, France 2013
"Frontier #3", Youth in Decline, USA 2014
"...en Chine", Atrabile, Switzerland 2017
"Au Musée", Delcourt, France 2017

Teaching

2019
Workshop "Comicwerkstatt"
Bücherpiraten e.V., Lübeck
Comic seminar "Figuren mit tausend Gesichtern - Comicfestival Hamburg 2019"
Department Design, HAW Hamburg

2018
- Workshop "Comicfiguren zeichnen"
  "Kinder lieben Comics", Comicfestival Hamburg e.V.
- Workshop "Propaganda:Civic Education"
  Together with Elisabeth Desta, Federal agency for civic education (bpb) and Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin
- Comic seminar "Figuren mit tausend Gesichtern - Comicfestival Hamburg 2019"
  Department Design, HAW Hamburg
- Workshop "Zeich(n)en der Zeit - Comicjournalismus"
  Together with Lilian Pithan, Erlanger Poetenfest
- Workshop "Comicfiguren im Urwald"
  Comicsalon Erlangen
- Workshop "Redrawing Stories from the past 2" Together with Dr. Ole Frahm (workshop conducted in Naples, Italy and Leipzig), MitOst e.V.
- Comic seminar "Logbuch - Comicfestival Hamburg 2018"
  Department Design, HAW Hamburg
- Workshop "Comicjournalismus in Bonn"
  Together with Lilian Pithan, Federal agency for civic education (bpb)
- Workshop "Comic-Werkstatt"
  Bücherpiraten e.V., Lübeck
2017
- Workshop "Comics zeichnen"
  Gymnasium Bondenwald, Hamburg
- Comic seminar "My favourite toy"
  Department Design, HAW Hamburg
- Workshop "A Brief History of Meteorite Falls"
  The Animation Workshop, VIA University College, Viborg
- Comic seminar "Comicfestival Hamburg 2017"
  Department Design, HAW Hamburg
- Workshop "Alphabet des Ankommens"
  Together with Lilian Pithan, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
- Workshop "Zickige Zebras zeichnen"
  Together with Jul Gordon, Buchhandlung im Schanzenviertel, Hamburg
- Workshop "Comic Gruppe"
  Together with Jul Gordon, GWA St. Pauli e.V., Hamburg
2016
- Workshop "Zickige Zebras zeichnen"
  Together with Jul Gordon, Galerie Dorothea Schlüter, Hamburg
- Workshop "Zickige Zebras zeichnen"
  Together with Jul Gordon, Modern Graphics, Berlin
- Workshop “Manga, Comic & Graphic Novel” Bücherpiraten e.V., Lübeck
- Workshop "(Un)folding Time & Space" Projektwoche Bühnen- und Kostümbild
  Together with Jul Gordon, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden
- Workshop "Zickige Zebras zeichnen"
  Comicfestival Hamburg
- Comic seminar "Genre vs. Comic"
  Department Design, HAW Hamburg
- Workshop "Grenzgeschichten"
  Bayrischer Rundfunk/Stiftung Zuhören, München
- Workshop "Little red riding hood as a comic!"
  Together with Jul Gordon, The Berlin Art Book Fair 2016
- Workshop "Comic-Figuren zeichnen"
  17th International Comicsalon Erlangen
- Comic seminar "Adaption, Übertragung, künstlerische Geiselnahme"
  Department Design, HAW Hamburg
- Workshop "Comic Gruppe"
  Together with Jul Gordon, GWA St. Pauli e.V., Hamburg
2015
- Workshop "Comic Gruppe"
  Together with Jul Gordon, GWA St. Pauli e.V., Hamburg
- Workshop "Comics and Graphic Novels in Germany"
  Goethe-Institut Gulf Region, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Lecture "Comics and Graphic Novels in Germany"
  Abu Dhabi International Bookfair, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Workshop "Redrawing Stories from the past" Together with Dr. Ole Frahm (workshop conducted in Pančevo, Serbia and Chemnitz), MitOst e.V.
- Workshop “Manga, Comic & Graphic Novel” Bücherpiraten e.V., Lübeck
- Workshop “Chrashkurs Graphic Novels (2)” Bücherpiraten e.V., Lübeck
- Workshop “Character design & storytelling” Boomfest, St. Petersburg
- Workshop "Comicwerkstatt" Ganztagsschule St. Pauli, Hamburg
- Comicworkshop at Lesefest am Heidberg Stadtteilschule Am Heidberg, Hamburg
2014
- Lecture "Form and Content"
  Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Berlin
- Workshop "Colonial Soldiers / History Campus" together with Dr. Ole Frahm
  Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Berlin
- Lecture "Graphic Novels in Germany"
  Shenkar College/Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv
- Workshop "Postcards from life"
  Shenkar College/Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv
- Workshop "Character Design"
  together with Olivia Vieweg, Respect Project/Goethe Institute, Moscow
- Workshop "Chrashkurs Graphic Novels"
  Bücherpiraten e.V., Lübeck
- Lecture "Comic Strips"
  Together with Arne Bellstorf and Jan-Frederik Bandel, HAW Hamburg, Department Design
- Workshop "St. Pauli Übermorgen"
  Together with Jul Gordon, GWA St. Pauli e.V., Hamburg
2013
- Lecture "Comics auf dem Weg zur Unlesbarkeit (und wieder zurück)"
  Sommerakademie Leipzig
- Lecture "Zehn Jahre, zehn Bände"
  Media College of Nanjing University of the Arts/Goethe Institute Beijing/Nanjing
2012
- Lecture "Dri Chinisin"
  Literaturarchiv Sulzbach-Rosenberg e.V.
- Workshop "Comics zeichnen"
  Hafencity Universität Hamburg
- Workshop "Geistergeschichten"
  together with Mawil, Goethe Institute Jakarta
2011
- Workshop "Comics, Manga &Co."
  Goethe Institute Tbilisi
- Lecture "Comicproduktion heute"
  Catawiki Presse-Launch, Hamburg
- Workshop "Orte in Bukarest"
  Goethe Institute Bucharest
- Workshop "Character Design"
  Goethe Institute Bucharest
- Lecture "Comics in Germany", Comic Workshop
  Goethe Institute Jakarta
2010
- Lecture "German independent comics"
  SPX 10, Stockholm
- Workshop "A life on its own"
  Helsingin Sarjakuvafestivaalit/Sarjakuvakeskus, Helsinki
- Workshop "Small press, big impact"
  Salonul International de Banda Desenata de la Bucuresti, Bucharest
2009
- Workshop "Incredible machines"
  Sarjakuvakeskus, Helsinki
- Lecture "Sascha Hommer und Mawil reden über ihre Comics, über Hamburg, Berlin und die Welt"
  Together with Mawil, Buch Wien/Phil, Wien
- Lecture "Wie Comics entstehen"
  Goethe Institute Saint Petersburg