Anna Hollmann

Anna Hollmann interests me as living proof of how far manga has traveled. A German artist who began drawing in 2003 and broke through in Animexx's Manga Mix, she works in a Japanese-born idiom rather than a strictly Western comics tradition. Her 2009 series Stupid Story leans into shonen-ai, a genre aimed largely at young women, and her several Sondermann Awards mark her as a genuine talent rather than a hobbyist. I love stories like hers because they show culture circulating and being reborn abroad. A German drawing manga for German readers is the whole globalized charm of the medium in one person.

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Name (English)

Anna Hollmann

Name (Japanese)

アンナ・ホルマン

Reading

あんな・ほるまん

Born

January 13, 1983 (age 43)

Origin

Germany

Occupation

comics artist / comics writer / mangaka

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Boar

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Hollmann
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105492

Tags

• comics artist
• comics writer
• mangaka

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.