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“Us” that is the founders of HopeLit, a small group of seven women that got HopeLit off the ground and set the framework. And this (idea and) framework was then filled with content and life with the help of many other Hopelits<\/a> who supported and still support us in word and deed. [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_team_member name=”Sandra Bennua” image_url=”http:\/\/hopelit.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sandra_bennua-1.jpg” db_link_target=”on” image_url_tablet=”” image_url_phone=”” image_url_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default” header_level=”h2″ header_line_height=”1.3em” position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#2C2C2C” custom_margin=”||5%||false|false” custom_padding=”||5%||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ custom_css_member_image=”width: 260px !important;” border_width_bottom=”10px” border_color_bottom=”#F3F9FC” border_radii_image=”on|50%|50%|50%|50%” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Production & graphics<\/strong><\/p>\n After publishing graduate Sandra Bennua has been working in the publishing and book industry for 20 years. Following a career spanning various positions and publishing houses, she has been self-employed for 5 years, offering overall support for the publication process \u2013 from manuscripts to print or digital products. She is also happy to take on individual project steps such as layout and typesetting.<\/p>\n sandra.bennua@nidaba.de<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Melanie Czarnik” image_url=”http:\/\/hopelit.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Melanie_Czarnik.jpg” db_link_target=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default” header_level=”h2″ header_line_height=”1.3em” position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#2C2C2C” custom_css_member_image=”width: 260px !important;” border_radii_image=”on|50%|50%|50%|50%”]<\/p>\n Website, PR, Legal, Psychology<\/strong><\/p>\n Melanie Czarnik (pictured with office dog Dobby) holds a degree in English and literature and has been working as a sales manager at Psychiatrie Verlag, BALANCE buch + medien verlag since 2009.<\/p>\n In her free time, she teaches women\u2019s self-protection seminars and champions self-protection and female empowerment. For the HopeLit project, she sets picture books to music and creates videos.<\/p>\n czarnik@psychiatrie-verlag.de<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0dobby@psychiatrie-verlag.de<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Psychiatrie Verlag, Imprint BALANCE buch + medien verlag” image_url=”http:\/\/hopelit.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/psychiatrie_verlag.png” db_link_target=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_level=”h2″ header_line_height=”1.3em” position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#2C2C2C” custom_margin=”||5%||false|false” custom_padding=”||5%||false|false” custom_css_member_image=”width: 260px !important;” border_width_bottom=”10px” border_color_bottom=”#F3F9FC”]<\/p>\n Since 1978, the Psychiatrie Verlag has been the specialist publisher for social psychiatry. The term \u00bbsocial psychiatry\u00ab describes a particular method of professional support for people with mental crises and mental illnesses.<\/p>\n The focus is on people and their individual situation. Considerations include individual living conditions and needs.<\/p>\n In 2007, the publishing house founded its imprint BALANCE buch + medien, publishing advice and self-help books, experience reports, and children\u2019s books on the subject of mental health.<\/p>\n psychiatrie-verlag.de<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0<\/span>balance-verlag.de<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Claudia Gliemann” image_url=”http:\/\/hopelit.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Claudia-Gliemann.jpg” db_link_target=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default” header_level=”h2″ header_line_height=”1.3em” position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#2C2C2C” custom_css_member_image=”width: 260px !important;” border_radii_image=”on|50%|50%|50%|50%”]<\/p>\n Content, blog, overall coordination and everything that goes with it<\/strong><\/p>\n Claudia Gliemann is an author, translator, publisher for the children\u2019s book publisher MONTEROSA, and a singer-songwriter.<\/p>\n Her picture book Without Grandma, illustrated by Patrick Tritschler, made it onto the recommendation list of the German Medical Association\u2019s Silver Feather award. Her children\u2019s book Dad\u2019s soul has the sniffles, illustrated by Nadia Faichney, won the 2015 The Beauty and the Book Award (the Frankfurt Book Fair\u2019s audience award) and the DGPPN Anti Stigma Prize.<\/p>\n As an author, she was also nominated for the 2015 KORBINIAN, the Paul Maar Prize for German-speaking authors. Since 2017 she has been on reading tours in schools and social institutions all across Germany, a joint project with AOK and Deutscher DepressionsLiga e.V.<\/p>\n claudia.gliemann@monterosa-verlag.de<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”MONTEROSA publishing house” image_url=”http:\/\/hopelit.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MONTEROSA-Logo-mag.png” db_link_target=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_level=”h2″ header_line_height=”1.3em” position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#2C2C2C” custom_margin=”||5%||false|false” custom_padding=”||5%||false|false” custom_css_member_image=”width: 260px !important;” border_width_bottom=”10px” border_color_bottom=”#F3F9FC”]<\/p>\n In 2010, literary translator Claudia Gliemann founded the children\u2019s book publishing house MONTEROSA Verlag.<\/p>\n Since then, MONTEROSA has published eleven books and one CD. MONTEROSA Verlag focuses on books for children facing difficult circumstances. These include \u201cDad\u2019s soul has the sniffles\u201d by Claudia Gliemann and Nadia Faichney on the subject of \u201cChildren of mentally ill parents\u201d as well as \u201cThe happy blackbird\u201d by Stefan Moster and Nadia Faichney on the subject of \u201cchild abuse\u201d.<\/p>\n monterosa-verlag.de<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Elisabeth J\u00e4cklein-Kreis” image_url=”http:\/\/hopelit.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Elisabeth_Ja\u0308cklein-Kreis.jpg” db_link_target=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default” header_level=”h2″ header_line_height=”1.3em” position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#2C2C2C” custom_margin=”||5%||false|false” custom_padding=”||5%||false|false” custom_css_member_image=”width: 260px !important;” border_width_bottom=”10px” border_color_bottom=”#F3F9FC” border_radii_image=”on|50%|50%|50%|50%”]<\/p>\n Blog<\/strong><\/p>\n Elisabeth J\u00e4cklein-Kreis studied \u2019something with media\u2019 (Media & Communication BA \/ MA<\/a>) and worked as a (specialist) editor for a long time. She has been a freelance writer and editor since 2018, reading and researching, writing and correcting, preferably factual and specialist texts for large and small readers.<\/p>\n ejkreis.com<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0hallo@ejkreis.com<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Ann Cathrin Raab” image_url=”http:\/\/hopelit.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ann_Cathrin_Raab.jpg” db_link_target=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default” header_level=”h2″ header_line_height=”1.3em” position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#2C2C2C” custom_margin=”||5%||false|false” custom_padding=”||5%||false|false” custom_css_member_image=”width: 260px !important;” border_width_bottom=”10px” border_color_bottom=”#F3F9FC” border_radii_image=”on|50%|50%|50%|50%”]<\/p>\n Illustration<\/strong><\/p>\n Ann Cathrin Raab studied Illustration at the University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg) and graduated in 2007. Since that time she is working as a freelancing Illustrator and author for various large and small publishers, companies, associations, and museums. Her picture and children\u2019s books have won several awards. She is also a member of the Krickelkrakels, a group of illustrators that designed many creativity books and products for the F. Oetinger Verlag.<\/p>\n Find all her books and projects at anncathrinraab.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Anja Samstag” image_url=”http:\/\/hopelit.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Anja_Samstag.jpg” db_link_target=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default” header_level=”h2″ header_line_height=”1.3em” position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#2C2C2C” custom_margin=”||5%||false|false” custom_padding=”||5%||false|false” custom_css_member_image=”width: 260px !important;” border_width_bottom=”10px” border_color_bottom=”#F3F9FC” border_radii_image=”on|50%|50%|50%|50%”]<\/p>\n Organization<\/strong><\/p>\n Anja Samstag studied English, linguistics and literary translation and is now starting out as a translator from English. She is a volunteer reading tutor at Mentor e.V.<\/p>\n anja-samstag.de<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0<\/span>hallo@anja-samstag.de<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Sabrina Weber” image_url=”http:\/\/hopelit.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Sabrina_Weber_300.jpg” db_link_target=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default” header_level=”h2″ header_line_height=”1.3em” position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#2C2C2C” custom_margin=”||5%||false|false” custom_padding=”||5%||false|false” custom_css_member_image=”width: 260px !important;” border_width_bottom=”10px” border_color_bottom=”#F3F9FC” border_radii_image=”on|50%|50%|50%|50%”]<\/p>\n
We founders stand with our names for and behind HopeLit. We may have set the tone and made a part of the music – but on our own, the seven of us would be miles away from a symphony. Together we come closer.
And our literature is just as polyphonic as music. We believe in what connects. We want to build bridges, connect, dream together and make these dreams come true – beyond professional boundaries.<\/p>\n