Enki Bilal

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Enki Bilal (2010)

Enki Bilal (born October 7, 1951 in Belgrade , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as Enes Bilal ) is a comic artist , illustrator and film director . He has lived in Paris since 1961 and studied art and literature after leaving school.

He became famous as a cartoonist and writer for comics through publications in the comic magazines Pilote (German pilot ) and Métal hurlant (German heavy metal ). The subjects of his comics range from science fiction stories like Exterminator 17 to complex political thrillers (a genre that he practically invented together with the copywriter Pierre Christin and Jacques Tardi ) to the Spanish civil war and the political and socially critical SF trilogy Alexander Nikopol . After his early works, Bilal made his drawings exclusively as direct coloring .

In 1987 he won the Grand Prix de la Ville d'Angoulême at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême . In 1998 he received the Prix ​​international de la Ville de Genève pour la bande dessinée for his book Le Sommeil du monstre .

Life

Bilal was born in Belgrade in 1951 to a Bosnian father and a Slovak mother. In 1960, like his father, he went to Paris. He begins to draw, since 1971 first politician caricatures for pilots (e.g. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing ).

In 1972, after a short excursion to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Enki Bilal released his first album, L'appel des étoiles (Eng. Call of the Stars ) with Pilote . Here he also met Pierre Christin , with whom he worked long and fruitfully. B. at La croisière des oubliés (Eng. The cruise of the forgotten, 1975); Le vaisseau de pierre (Eng. The stone ship, 1976); La ville qui n'existait pas ( Eng . The city that didn't exist, 1977).

The breakthrough followed in 1979 with the album Les Phalanges de l'Ordre Noir (Eng. The Sleep of Reason, 1979). In 1980 it won the Prix ​​RTL for adult comics and was named the eleventh best book (!) Of the year by the reading magazine Lire . At the same time, other albums with Christin at Dargaud and Autrement (e.g. Los Angeles - l'étoile oubliée de Laurie Bloom (German: Los Angeles: the forgotten star of Laurie Bloom) and Coeurs Sanglants ). His best album and the beginning of a new phase of drawing is the first volume of the Nikopol trilogy, which appears in 1980 ( La foire aux immortels, dt. The business of the immortals ).

Crux universalis and the portfolio Die Mauer followed in 1982 . Bilal works as a set and costume designer. He draws part of the decor of La vie est un roman ( Life is a novel ), a film by Alain Resnais , on glass . Two years earlier he had drawn the poster for another film by Resnais, Mon oncle d'Amérique (" My Uncle from America ").

1983 appeared - again together with Pierre Christin - Partie de Chasse (1980th German battue ), a Soviet political thriller. Paris-Match, Télérama, Le Point, l'Express, Le Figaro, Le Matin and Le Monde celebrate it with brilliant reviews. 1986 saw the release of the second volume of the Nikopol trilogy (La Femme piège, dt. The woman in the future ), and Bilal befriended Patrick Cauvin, with whom he wrote Hors jeu (offside), a “future vision” of football.

The first major honor followed in January 1987: Bilal became the 14th Président du Salon International de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême and won first prize. In 1989 Enki Bilal finished his first film, Bunker Palace Hotel, with Jean-Louis Trintignant and Carole Bouquet . Les Humanoïdes Associés publish the album Exterminateur 17 , a story that first appeared in Métal Hurlant in 1978 , with the scenario by Jean-Pierre Dionnet . There are other new editions at Humano (Mémoires d'outre-espace, La croisière des oubliés, Le vaisseau de pierre, La ville qui n'existait pas, Les Phalanges de l'Ordre Noir, Partie de Chasse, La foire aux immortels, La Femme piège, Coeurs Sanglants) and other costume designs for large events (Festival d'Avignon) and ballet as well as a large retrospective in November 1991 in the Grande Halle de la Villette and the exhibition Transit in the Grande Arche de la Défense in Paris. In September 1993 the third volume of the Nikopol trilogy ( Froid équateur, dt. Equator cold) appears, which in turn is voted the best book of the year in Lire - a first for a comic. Exhibitions and new editions follow.

In February 1997, Bilal's second film was released: Tykho moon, again with Jean-Louis Trintignant, accompanied by Julie Delpy , Joseph Leysen, Michel Piccoli and Richard Bohringer . In 1998 the first part of a second trilogy (Le Sommeil du Monstre) appears . Further new editions and exhibitions followed (Exposition Magma, Museo Diego Aragon Pignatelli in Naples, Exposition Le Sarcophage) .

In 2001 he deals - after a long time again with Pierre Christin - in the album Le sarcophage (Paris, Bibliothèque Historique) with the Chernobyl Gau. In 2003 the second volume of the monster trilogy (Trente-deux Décembre, German December 32nd) appears, in 2006 the third volume (Rendez-vous à Paris, German Rendez-vous in Paris), in which a fourth volume of the "trilogy "is announced. This appeared in 2007 (Quatre?, German four?) .

In 2019 he was appointed to the competition jury of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival .

Works

  • Légend d'aujourd'hui ("Legends of the Present"; Text: Pierre Christin)
    • La croisière des oubliés ( The cruise of the forgotten ), 1975
    • Le Vaisseau de pierre (Eng. The Stone Ship ), 1976
    • La Ville qui n'existait pas ( The city that didn't exist ), 1977
    • Les Phalanges de l'Ordre Noir (Eng. The Sleep of Reason ), 1979
    • Partie de chasse (German battue ), 1983
    • Cœurs sanglants (Eng. Forgotten Moments ), 1988
  • Trilogy Nikopol ("Alexander Nikopol Trilogy")
    • La foire aux immortels (Eng: the business of immortals ), 1981
    • La femme piège ( The woman in the future ), 1986
    • Froid equateur (German equator cold ), 1992
  • Tétralogie du Monstre ("Monster Tetralogy")
    • Le sommeil du monstre (Eng: the monster's sleep ), 1998
    • 32 décembre (German December 32 ), 2003
    • Rendez-vous à Paris (Eng. Rendezvous in Paris ), 2006
    • Quatre? (German four? ), 2007
  • Trilogie du Coup de sang ("Tantrum Trilogy")
    • Animal'z , 2010
    • Julia & Roem , 2011
    • La Couleur de l'air (Eng: the color of the air ), 2015
  • Bug (since 2018)
    • Book 1 (2018)
    • Book 2 (2019)
  • Also published by German publishers :
    • 1985 Los Angeles: the forgotten star of Laurie Bloom (with Pierre Christin)
    • 1987 Crux Universalis
    • 1990 Exterminator 17
    • 1992 Offside (with Patrick Cauvin)
    • 1992 memories from space
    • 1995 blue blood
    • 1998 memories from another time
    • 2001 The sarcophagus

Movies

Computer games

exhibition

  • 2013: Enki Bilal - Les fantômes du Louvre . Louvre, Paris. Companion book.

literature

Web links

Commons : Enki Bilal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The demons lurk behind the art in FAZ from January 21, 2013 page 27
personal data
SURNAME Bilal, Enki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bilalović, Enes (maiden name); Bilal, Enes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French comic book artist, illustrator and film director
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia