New exhibition in Frankfurt: Caricatura Museum honors comic artist Katharina Greve

The works include a cartoon series about the fat Princess Petronia (from 2015), who sits on a clump of comet in space like “The Little Prince”. Unlike him, she has a bad temper, defies the expectations of those around her and struggles for self-determination. The webcomic “The High-rise: 102 Floors of Life” (2015-2017) can be admired in 3D as a five-meter-high comic strip; each floor reveals an apartment with the dialogues of its residents.

Greve’s most recent comic series collected in a book, “My Stories of Mother and Daughter” (2025), is a homage to the classic “Father and Son” by Erich Ohser alias eo plauen. The show shows sketches, preliminary drawings and the colored execution of the humorous scenes.

Winged pencil in bronze

Katharina Greve was born in Hamburg in 1972 and studied architecture at the TU Berlin. Greve has been working as a freelance artist since 2002, and her first cartoons followed in 2004. Her work is regularly published in magazines and newspapers, including Titanic, “tageszeitung”, Das Magazin, “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”.

Greve has received several awards, including the German Cartoon Prize, the Sondermann Promotion Prize, the Calendar Prize and the Max and Moritz Prize. Most recently she received the Winged Pencil in Bronze at the German Caricature Prize in 2025. She lives and works in Berlin.