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Elke Renate Steiner

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · Jan 21

Hi Bluesky people! I´m Elke Renate Steiner, comics creator and and event illustrator in Berlin, germany. I will post here my comic publications and recent drawing activities step by step.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

Cottbus Pride Activity Weeks are here! As part of the program we will be rainbow sketching in Cottbus on October 24th at 4 pm. Drawing buildings which have hoisted the rainbow flag, and post our drawings. For adults with and without experience. Sign up, join us! www.csd-cottbus.info/index.php/de...

Regenbogen Sketching mit Elke R. Steiner

Liebe Mitmenschen, am 24.10.2025 startet um 16:00 Uhr unser Rainbow Sketching in der Cottbuser Innenstadt. Nacheinander widmen wir uns zwei ausgewählten Gebäuden, die die Regenbogenflagge gehisst...

www.csd-cottbus.info

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 2d

Open Mic With Accent🎙 Open stage for everyone. Any format. Any language. Any accent. Saligari Bar, Simplonstr. 23, Berlin. Every 2nd Wednesday. Next dates: 5.11.25, 19.11.25, 3.13.25, 17.12.25. Doors open 7 pm Show 7.30 pm. Join us!

t.me/openmicwitha...
openmicwithaccent.tilda.ws

A puple background, a simple line drawing of a stage with a microphone and a spotlight. in the spotlight apeearing are the shadows of small ornaments.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 3d

"The Turning Point" by Klaus Mann

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · 4d

🌈 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 · Sep 23

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 · Sep 19

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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Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social · Jul 10

Tech bros are making billions in Europe, but dodge taxes and threaten our democracy. Please spread the word and help us to make them pay 👏
act.greens-efa.eu/make-them-pay

Tax the tech bros: Make them pay

✍️ Support our call for an EU Digital Services Tax

act.greens-efa.eu

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · Jul 6

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 · Jun 28

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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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · Jun 18

Rechte Accounts beklagten sich über diesen Post: Seit Merz Kanzler sei, würde die AfD in Umfragen wieder fallen. Netter Versuch: Zum einen sind das nur kleine Änderungen, die auch in der Fehlertoleranz liegen. Zum anderen passierte fast zeitgleich: Die Hochstufung als gesichert rechtsextrem.

Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · Jun 16

Als wir die AfD für ihre verfassungsfeindlichen Ideen von millionenfachen Vertreibungen verurteilten & zu Millionen auf die Straße gegangen sind, fiel sie von 23 % auf 15 %.

Seit wir sie "inhaltlich stellen" & "endlich härtere Migrationspolitik" machen, stieg sie von 15 % auf 25 %.

Ich sag's nur.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · May 31

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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Langohrhobbits @langohrhobbits.bsky.social · May 30

Letzten Montag lustiges Comiczeichnen in der Helene-Nathan-Bibliothek in Neukölln mit @steinercomix.bsky.social ✏️🐈‍⬛🦝 Eine Seite jeweils mit Waschbär und Katze von mir. 🖤
📸 by @steinercomix.bsky.social

2 Comicpanels mit schlafender Katze, die durch den Geruch von Fisch geweckt wird.

Mehrere Seiten mit gezeichneten Comics, vorn ein Waschbär aus 2 Winkeln, wie er einen Mülleimer durchsucht.

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · May 25

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 · May 20

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 · May 12

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 · Apr 25

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 · Mar 25

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 · Mar 19

"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 · Feb 25

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 · Feb 23

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Elke Renate Steiner @steinercomix.bsky.social · Feb 20

„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 · Feb 15

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