Katrin Bongard
KATRIN BONGARD, born in 1962, is an artist and author and has worked for the last ten years as a screenwriter. In 2005 her first children`s book Radio Gaga was developed out a screenplay, and won several awards, including the Peter Härtling Award. Since then she has written twenty books for children and young adults. Together with her husband she runs an acting agency as well as the label Red Bug Books. Painting, photography, installation work and drawing are also part of her artistic repertoire. Es war die Nachtigall is her first book to be published by Hanser.