Ulli Lust

Ulli Lust, born in Vienna in 1967, is an Austrian comic artist and illustrator. Her comic "Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life" (avant-verlag) received widespread international attention and was honored with the Ignatz Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. This was followed by, among others, “Flughunde” (based on the novel by Marcel Beyer) and “Wie ich versuchte, ein guter Mensch zu sein” (both published by Suhrkamp). In 2025, her non-fiction comic “Die Frau als Mensch: Am Anfang der Geschichte” was published by Reprodukt. It was the first comic ever to win the German Non-Fiction Book Prize. In 2026, the eagerly awaited sequel “Die Frau als Mensch 2: Schamaninnen” was published, which was nominated for the 2026 Leipzig Book Fair Prize.

Ulli Lust is one of the most important German-language comic artists. She teaches drawing and comics at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hanover.