Overview

• Carlsen Verlag announced she died unexpectedly in Schwerin on Wednesday from an anaphylactic allergic shock.
• Bauer reached a broad audience in the mid-1980s through comics and cartoons for the women's magazine Brigitte.
• Her signature titles include Die Königin der Farben, Selma, and Opas Engel.
• She earned top accolades such as the Hans Christian Andersen Prize and the German Youth Literature Prize for her life's work.
• Hamburg culture senator Carsten Brosda said the city lost one of the most important illustrators and children's book authors of our time.