4. May 1920

born in Belfast, Ireland

1933

her family moves to Bedford, England

1938 - 1940

she studies art at the Chelsea School of Art, London

1940 - 1944

military service as mechanic in London's telephone centres

1940

first publications in "0ur Time"

1944

she marries René Graetz, a German sculptor and painter

1944 - 1946

freelance graphic artist

1946

they move to Berlin, Germany, ES starts working for Ulenspiegel, Frischer Wind, Vorwärts and Aufbau Verlag

1948

daughter Anne and 1950 son Patrick are born

1950

cartoonist for Neues Deutschland for a few years

1958

illustrations for Brecht's poems

ab 1962

"Das Magazin" published a series of drawings and verses (Berta Waterstradt of places in the GDR and other socialist countries

1962 - 1992

she wrote and illustrated her first own children's book-
"Der kleine Angsthase", 24 titles followed until 1991

1968

starts drawing landscapes, interieurs etc.

1963 - 1991

travels to Soviet Union, Bulgaria, England, Ireland, Spain, Italy, US, Tanzania and France

1974

René Graetz dies

1988

she starts writing her memoirs "Irish Berlin"

27. June 1992

dies in Berlin, her ashes are scattered into the Irish Sea, a memorial plate is placed on the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin