Julia Kaergel was born in Hamburg in 1965 and has worked as a freelance illustrator since 1998. The children's book ›Lotte will Prinzessin sein‹, with text by Doris Dörrie and illustrations by Julia Kaergel, was awarded the ›City of Braunschweig Schnabelsteher Prize‹ and nominated for the ›German Youth Literature Prize‹ in 1999.