Peter Gaymann / born in 1950 in Freiburg im Breisgau / is one of the most successful and popular cartoonists in Germany / after completing his studies in social pedagogy, he started his own business as a humorous illustrator in 1976 / well over 100 books have been published by and with him since then, many of which have become bestsellers / his trademarks are the chickens with the initials P. GAY in magazines and newspapers, on postcards, calendars, posters and etchings / in 2014, following in the footsteps of Janosch and Loriot, he designed two Easter stamps for Deutsche Post with a print run of 70 million / the list of publications in newspapers and magazines is long / for the women’s magazine ‘Brigitte’ he summed up the challenges of living together as a man and a woman in the series ‘Die Paar Probleme’ (The Couple Problems) for 30 years starting in 1990 / he has two children and three grandchildren and lives with his wife on Lake Starnberg; besides his family, he loves Italy, especially Rome, where he lived for five years