Flix

This article is about the German comic artist Flix . For the Spanish place see Flix (Tarragona) .

Flix at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Flix (actually Felix Görmann , born October 16, 1976 in Münster ) is a German comic illustrator , author and cartoonist .

Life

Flix studied communication design at the Saar College of Fine Arts in Saarbrücken and at the Escola Massana in Barcelona . In 1998, inspired by Peter Butschkow , he published his first professional comic Who the fuck is Faust? at Eichborn Verlag . In 2002 the ribbon Radio Ohrgasmus - Talkguerilla followed on the Carlsen comic label B&L.

In the same year (2002) Flix finished his studies and drew a comic as a thesis.

Originally this should appear in four volumes by the independent publisher Zwerchfell with the title Held , of which only the first volume ( short pants, wooden rifle ) was realized. In 2003 Carlsen Comics published the entire thesis in one volume.

held received numerous prizes, including a. the Max and Moritz Prize 2004 as "best German comic". So far, held has been translated into three languages, Spanish ( héroe , Bang Ediciones / Barcelona), French ( héros , Paquet / Geneve) and Korean. The story tells Flix his entire life from birth to death, i.e. past, present and future.

A year later Flix published the volume sag was (at Carlsen Comic), a partly autobiographical relationship story about the blossoming and fading of a great love. In 2006, the band was released girl who tells a summer love story that takes place in a single day.

Flix has been drawing the cartoon series Verflixt! , which is printed in various newspapers (including Saarbrücker Zeitung) and of which the first anthology in 2005 under the title Verflixt! … and now?! has appeared. From October 2005 to August 2007, a total of 77 episodes of the diary-like comic strip series Seitenwechsel were published on Spiegel online , in which Flix talks about his job as a lecturer in drawing, which he held at the HbK Saarbrücken after completing his studies.

Since mid-2006, the online comic diary heldentage has been available on his website , in which Flix records small episodes from his life - daily at the beginning, later at irregular intervals. A series about the experiences with the division of Germany appeared in the Berliner Tagesspiegel - in August 2009 the collection was published under the title Da war mal was . An OpenAir exhibition was opened on August 5th; this in Berlin at the Berlin Wall Memorial .

Also in 2009, the serial comic Faust , a reinterpretation of the drama of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , was published over a period of five months in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . It was later published as a book.

With Don Quixote, Flix published an adaptation of a classical work for the second time ; it first appeared in 2012 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and then in book form. He is a fan of the punk rock band Die Ärzte .

Flix (right) together with Ralph Ruthe at the Leipzig Book Fair (2010)

The Schöne Töchter series appeared in the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel from 2010 to October 2015 . In 2012 he was awarded the Max and Moritz Prize “Best Comic Strip” for this. With varied page architecture and restrained coloring, it deals with the “panorama of a modern love life” between man and woman with gentle irony.

Since October 2015 Flix has been writing and drawing the comic strip Glückskind , which appears every Monday in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. To mark the 80th anniversary of “ Spirou ”, in 2018, Spirou in Berlin from Flix, approved by the Belgian rights holders, was the first time a Spirou volume by a German draftsman came into the book trade.

His comics are fictional , but often have autobiographical traits.

Felix Görmann lives in Berlin and shares a studio with the comic artist Marvin Clifford . He is the father of two daughters, born in 2012 and 2016.

Awards

• ICOM Independent Comic Award as "Best Funny" 2003 for Held
• Max and Moritz Prize 2004 as “Best German-language comic” for Held
• Swiss Cartoon Award 2004 for the Verflixt! -Row (newspaper strips)
• Stuttgart Cartoon Award 2007
• PENG! - The Munich Comic Prize 2009 as “Best German Comic” for The Little Man's Swimming Pool
• Max and Moritz Prize 2012 for “Best Comic Strip” for Schöne Töchter
• Rudolph Dirks Award 2016 in the Social Drama / Slice of Life category for Schöne Töchter
• Rudolph Dirks Award 2016 in the Literary Adaptation category for Münchhausen - The Truth About Lying (with Bernd Kissel)
• PENG! - The Munich Comic Prize 2019 as “Best German Comic” for Spirou in Berlin

Works

• 1998 Who the fuck is Faust? , Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., ISBN 978-3-8218-3076-6
• 2002 Radio Ohrgasmus - Talkguerilla (Part 1) , B and L, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-75231-4
• 2002 Die Drei Federn (with Eckart Breitschuh ), 5th volume of the series "Grimm", Zwerchfell Verlag
• 2002 held - short pants wood rifle - part 1 of 4 , Zwerchfell Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-928387-58-3
• 2003 held , Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-77109-4
• 2004 say something , Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-74820-1
• 2005 Darn it! (... and now ?!) (Cartoons), Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-78194-9
• 2006 For you - you are cute! (Cartoons), Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-68053-2
• 2006 girl , Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-78181-9
• 2007 heldentage , Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-78646-3
• 2009 in love! (Cartoons), Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-68202-4
• 2009 The little man's swimming pool (heldentage 2.0), Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-78652-4
• 2009 There was something ... , Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-78968-6
• 2009 I'm sorry, but Christmas is canceled , Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-68039-6
• 2010 Faust, The first part of the tragedy , Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-78977-8
• 2012 Don Quijote , Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-78375-2
• 2013 Ferdinand, the reporter dog (with Ralph Ruthe ), Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-72894-4
• 2013 Ferdinand, the reporter dog - Volume 2 (with Ralph Ruthe), Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-72897-5
• 2014 Das Schlaf , ALADIN Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-8489-1016-8
• 2014 Ferdinand, the reporter dog - Volume 3 (with Ralph Ruthe), Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-72898-2
• 2014 There was something ... (extended edition), Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-79189-4
• 2014 Christmas Eve (illustrations), Insel-Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-458-20010-9
• 2015 Schöne Töchter , Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-78839-9
• 2016 Munchausen. The truth about lying (with Bernd Kissel ), Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-76303-7
• 2017 Ferdinand, the reporter dog - Volume 4 (with Ralph Ruthe), Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-72899-9
• 2017 Glückskind, Volume 1: The beginning of a wonderful friendship , Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-78386-8
• 2018 Spirou in Berlin (Spirou & Fantasio Spezial), Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-551-72115-0
• 2018 Grimms Märchen (illustrations), Insel-Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-458-20031-4
• 2019 just don't say anything! , Lappan Verlag, Oldenburg, ISBN 978-3-8303-3527-6
• 2019 breathe in! Exhale! , Lappan Verlag, Oldenburg, ISBN 978-3-8303-6339-2

Translations

Beautiful daughters

• 2017 (French) Les Jolies Filles , Glénat, Grenoble, ISBN 9782344018576

Don Quixote

• 2018 (Dutch) Don Quichot , trans. by Sigge Stegeman, soul food comics, Arnhem, ISBN 978-94-92882-00-4
• 2015 (Turkish) Don Kişot , trans. by Ayhan Bahat, Marmara Çizgi Yayınları, Istanbul, ISBN 978-605-9985-23-9
• 2014 (Macedonian) Don Kichot , trans. by Lile Šijakoviḱ, Ars libris, Skopje, ISBN 978-608-229-629-6
• 2013 (Spanish) Don Quixote , trans. by María Dolores Pérez Pablos, Dibbuks, Madrid, ISBN 978-841-5850-25-0

fist

• 2014 (Macedonian) Faust , trans. by Lile Šijakoviḱ, Ars libris, Skopje, ISBN 978-608-229-628-9

girl

• 2010 (Polish) Dziewczyny , transl. by Marek Kraska, Timof Comics, Warsaw, 112 pp., ISBN 978-83-61081-48-7

There was something ...

• 2011 (Portuguese) Quando lá tinha o muro… Lembranças daqui e de lá , transl . by Dennis Gerstenberger and Fabiana Fogel Gerstenberger: Tinta Negra, 124 pp.
• 2009 (Polish) Pamiȩtam, jak…: wspomnienia o tej i tamtej stronie , trans. by Marek Kraska, Timof Comics, Warsaw, 108 pp., ISBN 978-83-61081-39-5

say what

• 2013 (Polish) Powiedz coś , transl. by Mateusz Jankowski, Timof Comics, Warsaw, ISBN 978-83-63963-26-2
• 2007 (Spanish) Di algo , transl. by Angèlica Ripa, Barcelona: Bang Ediciones, 122 pp., ISBN 978-84-93464-78-3

hero

• 2013 (Polish) Bohater , edited by Mateusz Jankowski, Timof Comics, Warsaw, ISBN 978-83-63963-27-9
• 2005 (Spanish) héroe , transl. by Josep Caldes i Valls and Eduard Bartoll Teixidor, Barcelona: Bang Ediciones, 128 pp., ISBN 84-933820-7-8
• 2005 (French) Héros , transl. von?, Paquet: Geneve, 128 pp., ISBN 978-2-88890-014-6
• Korean

Exhibitions

• 2015: Ruthe Sauer Flix - That's not art - exhibition in the Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen , September 20, 2015 to January 17, 2016

Web links

Commons : Flix  - collection of images

• Official website
• 2003: Interview in the 2004 Comic! Yearbook , excerpt online
• 2007: Interview with Flix
• Statement (09/2011) on the comic project for the FAZ Don Quijote
• 2013: Interview with Flix and Ralph Ruthe
• 2015: Flix Schöne Töchter under pressure Interview on book publication
• Literature by and about Flix in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Flix: "Don Quixote". In: FAZ.NET . May 4, 2012.
2. ↑ Flix and his "beautiful daughters": The whale in the living room , review in Deutschlandradio Kultur , August 10, 2015.
3. ↑ How Flix brought Spirou to Berlin , Der Tagesspiegel of July 31, 2018, accessed July 31, 2018
4. ↑ "I didn't want any Ostalgie" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 28, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 12 ( taz.de [accessed on August 5, 2018]).
5. ↑ Heldentag 855. (No longer available online.) In: der-flix.de. November 26, 2012, archived from the original on March 27, 2015 ; Retrieved November 14, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ ^{a b} Matthias Penkert-Hennig: The winners of the Rudolph Dirks Award 2016 . In: comic.de. 3rd December 2016.