Thekla Priebst author page

Thekla Priebst biography

Thekla Priebst was born in Weimar in 1990 and studied visual communication at Bauhaus University Weimar and Berlin Weissensee School of Art. She works as a freelance art director and illustrator. Priebst writes and illustrates children’s non-fiction, and her work combines text, illustration and book design.

Her book The Voyage That Changed the World: The Epic Story of the First Crew to Sail Around the Globe is a children’s non-fiction title published by Wide Eyed Editions in 2025. The book recounts the Spanish voyage to the Moluccas by a western sea route under Ferdinand Magellan, and it also gives space to the Indigenous peoples encountered on the journey and to Enrique de Malacca. It is an 80-page book for children, and it was Priebst’s debut as an author-illustrator in 2025.