Edda Skibbe was born in 1965 in Hamburg where she studied illustration. In 1993 she was awarded the Unicef-Prize “Illustrators of the year”. Today she lives with her partner and their two children Janna and Mika in Kiel. As a successful illustrator she has created various games for HABA, among them The Big Ratz Fatz Game World and many more games of the Ratz-Fatz series (for players with a good knowledge of German).