Olivia Vieweg was born in Jena in 1987 and studied visual communication at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. She published several books during her studies. She specialises in graphic novels and cartoons. She was co-editor of the manga anthology "Paper Theatre", for which she received the ICOM Prize in 2010. In 2012 she won the Egmont Comic Scholarship for her script "Antoinette kehrt zurück" (2014). Olivia Vieweg's books "Huck Finn" (2013) and "Schwere See, mein Herz" (2015) are published by Suhrkamp. She was a scholarship holder at the screenwriting workshop of the Munich Film Academy. Her screenplay for the horror comic of the same name "Endzeit" (published by Carlsen) was made into a film in 2018 and has been shown in many countries around the world. Olivia Vieweg has adapted "Antigone" into comic form for the series "Die Unheimlichen", curated by Isabel Kreitz. Her new graphic novel "Fangirl Fantasy" will be published by Carlsen in 2024 and will also be exhibited at the Kunstmuseum Erlangen during the Comic Salon. Vieweg lives and works in Weimar, Germany.