Lothar Dräger

Lothar Dräger (born January 19, 1927 in Schwennenz ; † July 9, 2016 in Potsdam ) was a German comic and novelist.

Life and accomplishments

Lothar Dräger attended secondary school and then worked as an anti-aircraft helper in Stettin , where he was dismissed as unfit for military service after a serious illness before the end of the war. After the Second World War, he first studied singing at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin, then at the University of Music and became an opera singer . After engagements in Nordhausen and Potsdam , he changed his profession in 1957 and became a copywriter and source of ideas for the comic magazine Mosaik from issue number 9 with Hannes Hegen and later with Wolfgang Altenburger . Dräger researched the historical background of the stories, wrote verses and created exposés for the Digedags , the main characters in the mosaic. In 1958 and 1959 he wrote the mosaic supplement Klaus and Hein tell from the pioneer life .

After the break between the publishing house and "Digedag father" Hannes Hegen in 1975, Lothar Dräger and Lona Rietschel became the spiritual father of the Abrafaxe , who inherited the Digedags. Here he was artistic director, made elevations and even drew some pages himself. He also wrote the script for an Abrafaxe review that was performed in 1980 in the Palast der Republik in East Berlin . On January 1, 1990, he retired. In 2002 his novel Ritter Runkel und seine Zeit was published , in which he followed up the story of Ritter Runkel , which appeared in the Mosaik from 1964 to 1969 and which he had also written. In 2006, 2009 and 2012 he published sequels to this novel.

Lothar Dräger died on July 9, 2016 at the age of 89 in Potsdam.

Fonts

• Mosaik ( Digedags ) by Hannes Hegen , co-author from 1957 to 1975
• Mosaic ( Abrafaxe ), author and artistic director from 1976 to 1990
• with Ulf S. Graupner (illustrator): Ritter Runkel and his time . Roman, Nachw. By Thomas Kramer, Edition Caludia published by Jurgeit, Krismann & Nobst, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-936908-02-8 .
• with Ulf S. Graupner (illustrator): Ritter Runkel. The diplomat . Novel. Mosaic, Steinchen-for-Steinchen-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-932667-49-7 .
• with Ulf S. Graupner (illustrator): Ritter Runkel. The legend . Novel, edited by Klaus D. Schleiter and Anne Hauser-Thiele, Mosaik, Steinchen-für-Steinchen-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-937649-48-1 .
• with Ulf S. Graupner (illustrator): In the name of the turnip. The adventures of Bodo von Rübenstein . Novel, edited by Klaus D. Schleiter and Anne Hauser-Thiele, Mosaik, Steinchen-für-Steinchen-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-937649-35-1 .

literature

• Thomas Kramer : Micky, Marx and Manitu: Contemporary and cultural history in the mirror of a GDR comic 1955–1990. “Mosaic” as a focus of media experiences in NS and in the GDR. Weidler, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89693-195-4 (dissertation University of Leipzig 1989).
• Matthias Friske : The story of the "mosaic" by Hannes Hegen. A comic legend in the GDR. Lukas, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-034-4 .
• Mark Lehmstedt : The secret history of the Digedags. The publication and censorship history of the mosaic by Hannes Hegen. Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-937146-99-7 .
• Michael F. Scholz :  Dräger, Lothar . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Lothar Dräger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biographical page with pictures
• Lothar Dräger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Lothar Dräger in Mosapedia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lothar Dräger. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 205, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
2. ↑ Abrafaxe's father Lothar Dräger died in Potsdam . dpa article in the Berliner Morgenpost , August 18, 2016.