Dieckhoff: Die Mainzer Stadtmusikanten

The orphan Martin comes to Johannes Gutenberg’s workshop as an apprentice to work under top-secret conditions on the invention of the book printing process. But soon things are stolen from the workshop which pose great danger to the business. When Martin becomes a suspect of this theft himself, he decides to try to find the real thieves. Can the neighbour’s daughter Klara help him? Or is she working with the thieves?This thrilling story about Martin and Klara leads the reader directly into Gutenberg’s 15th century workshop where the printing press invention was made that changed the world. Regine Koelpin and Gitta Edelmann. Johannes Gutenberg und die verschwundenen Lettern. A historic Children’s Mystery. Paperback, 240 pages. Illustrated by Juno Sommer. Gutenberg Foundation 2019. German edition

Graphic Novel In 1438, William of Diest, the bishop Strasborg, alerted Pope Eugene IV that numerous copies of Sibyl's Prophecy, a heretical poem by Konrad Schmid, were circulating in his city. What troubled the bishop, was that all the copies were absolutelyy identical, as if the scribe tasked with copying them had been able to reproduce the same text an infinite number of times without the tiniest difference.This intrigued the Pope enough for him to ask his friend Cosimo de' Medici to investigate it. So in December 1438, four Italian cut-throats embarked for Strasbourg. They very quickly focused on a Mainz exile by the name of Johannes Gensfleisch, known as Gutenberg. In reality, with his partners Andreas Dritzehn, Hans Rifle and Andreas Heilmann, Gutenberg had founded an enterprise that was far more mysterious...Graphic Novel about Johannes Gutenberg's time in Straßburg 1438, illustrated by Roger Seiter. Vincent Wagner and Roger Seiter: Gutenberg and the secret of the Sibyl. Hardback, 72 pages, Éditions du Signe 2018. English edition.

Graphic Novel about Johannes Gutenberg's time in Straßburg 1438, illustrated by Roger Seiter. Vincent Wagner and Roger Seiter: Gutenberg et le secret de la Sibylle. Hardback, 72 pages, Éditions du Signe 2018. French edition.

Arthur Dieckhoff: Johannes und das Blaubeerschwein oder: Neues über die Erfindung der Buchdrucker-Kunst. Mit typografischen Schweinebildern von Ralf Mauer. Hard Cover, 44 pages, Schwarze Kunst 2014. German edition.