
Karolina Chyzewska was birthed in the city of Göttingen in 1986. At the age of ten, she came face to face with her first rival in a dual of who can best draw the Sailor Soldiers. The bond was never broken and they are best friends to this day. The rival/best friend went on to study in France; Karolina in the Kassel School of Art and Design. There she specialized in animation, illustration and graphic storytelling. During her studies, she met her comrades in action and began their journey to occupy the world, giving themselves the powerful name – Die Goldene Discofaust; the collective of women reign through art, parties and love. Since graduating in 2014, Karolina works as a freelance animator, illustrator and comic artist based in Berlin. Her debut was 2015 with the polish and german version of her book „Fast wie zu Hause“ „Powrócisz tu“ (Publisher: Centrala). In 2016 it came out in France „Tu reviendras“ (Publisher: Édtion l’œuf) . She was published in several Comic Anthologies like „Gerne würde ich allen so viel sagen“ published at Avant Verlag.
2021 she received a grant from the Berliner Kultursenat and spend 6 months in the Cité internationale des Arts à Paris. There she started her book „C’est maintenant“ which was published 2026 at MORGEN. She also received the Deutscher Literaturfond in 2025 for this project to finish it.
Besides having the dream to just do comics one day, she also enjoys to give Comic Workshops in german, polish, english and french for young and old.
Let’s see what the next adventure will be!
chyzewska@yahoo.de
