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Jana Kreisl

The secrets that we keep

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We all have our secrets. Stories we wouldn’t even tell our closest friends, because we are too ashamed. Sometimes it’s a disconcerting pattern in our behavior we just can’t shake, sometimes a story from childhood that still haunts us.

We all have our secrets. Stories we wouldn’t even tell our closest friends, because we are too ashamed. Sometimes it’s a disconcerting pattern in our behavior we just can’t shake, sometimes a story from childhood that still haunts us. They are stories we need to get off our chests to find peace. But where? In former times, people would bring them to their local priest – but what can we do today, in an increasingly secular society?

About the speaker

Jana Kreisl is an illustrator, graphic recorder and comic author based in Berlin. She was born in 1986 in Nuremberg and studied Visual Communication at the KHS Kassel, where she graduated in 2014. During her studies, Jana lived one year in Istanbul (where she studied at Mimar Sinan University and drank a lot of black tea) and several months in Philadelphia.


She is passionate about creating editorial illustration, graphic recording, sketchnotes and storyboards. She also writes graphic journalist stories about sustainability. They were published in Perspective Daily and Greenpeace Magazine.

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