Olivia Vieweg

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Olivia Vieweg (2014)

Olivia Vieweg (born October 3, 1987 in Jena ) is a German comic illustrator and author, also a cartoonist and editor of comic anthologies. She wrote the comic novels Huck Finn and Antoinette Returns .

biography

Olivia Vieweg spent the first ten years of her life in a prefabricated building on the highway . Her first point of contact with the comic medium is uncertain, but she says the Funny Paperback book is likely. Sailor Moon was more defining for her , her first shorter comic works were created in the so-called "Germangaka" scene, which was heavily influenced by manga . As a student, she designed poster motifs for the Jena Philharmonic , which were published. In school in Jena she drew a lot, especially cats. She continued this topic during her studies (visual communication at the Bauhaus University Weimar ) in a series of cartoons published by Carlsen Verlag . Her first exhibition took place between 2009 and 2010, together with Katja Klengel, in the Gera City Museum . In 2011 she finished her studies with the zombie comic Endzeit .

Olivia Vieweg lives in Weimar . She worked as an illustrator for the children's book series Vampirinternat Schloss Schauerfels and colorist for the comic series Silberpfeil . She is also active in advertising. She gave birth to a son in December 2012. In 2014 she was recorded in the script workshop in Munich . On July 6, 2014, she also took over the position on the comic strip on the back of the Sunday supplement of the Tagesspiegel , which she published every four weeks in alternation with Flix , Mawil and Tim Dinter , which had become vacant due to the departure of Arne Bellstorf . She has a special soft spot for Persian cats .

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Although Olivia Vieweg was initially shaped by a series aimed at girls from around 6 years of age ( Sailor Moon is demographically assigned to the Shōjo manga), today she calls mangaka as her drawing role models , which is aimed at older readers (" his " ) judge: Naoki Urasawa , Inio Asano and Mohiro Kitoh . Also Shōnen titles like Death Note and Bakuman. by Takeshi Obata as well as western comic artists such as Bastien Vivès , Manu Larcenet , Mark Kalesnikos and Ralf König , she appreciates very much, but still claims to have learned most of her comics, especially when it comes to narrative speed and character design, from the manga.

Through her studies, however, she distanced herself from the somewhat rigid perfectionism of the "Germangaka" scene and began to work more sketchily. She drew her three long comics Endzeit , Huck Finn and Antoinette Returns, exclusively with pencil, before that she usually washed up her work. She retouches and colors on the computer. Regional positioning is important to her when it comes to stories. It is limited to areas that it knows well and that therefore does not have to be researched from secondary sources, even if, for example, the Harzberg from Antoinette returns is fictional. Andreas Platthaus sees Gothic elements and the art of the early 20th century as other important influences .

Early comics

Vieweg published the first amateur comics in the "Manga style" (so-called Dōjinshi ) in the Animexx online portal under the pseudonym VenusKaiô. Some of them were published in the anthology series Manga-Mixx , Manga Spot (publisher Animexx) and Paper Theater (publisher Schwarzer Turm ). In some cases, she also acted as editor for the first time, a task that she later took on again for the Subway to Sally Storybooks . The two volumes with short stories based on song texts by the group of the same name were published by Egmont Manga & Anime in 2008 and by Schwarzer Turm in 2012.

In 2010 she received a “Special Jury Prize for a Special Achievement or Publication” for the publication of Paper Theater as part of the ICOM Independent Comic Prize .

Fat cat

From 2009 to 2011, three books with cartoons about a tabby Persian cat were published by Carlsen . The first volume, Why cats are better than men , appeared in 2009 and was in its third edition in 2011. In addition, she designed various merchandising items such as plush toys and buttons. She also drew three one-page gag comics for the character, which were printed in Comix magazine.

End time

At the end of the day , after getting stuck on the train halfway, two young women try to make their way through a world populated by zombies to Jena. The 72-page comic was created as a diploma thesis in 2011 for the Bauhaus University. It was published in 2012 in the magazine Comix , initially re-assembled on 46 pages in the larger A4 format and mirrored in Japanese reading direction in three sequels , and in the same year in the original form as a book by Schwarzer Turm . A few years later, Vieweg took on the story again, turned it into a screenplay (filmed by Arte and ZDF , planned release 2019) and again into a comic, which was published again in 2018 under the title Endzeit by Carlsen Verlag and with 288 pages is significantly more extensive than the original version. The 2018 version was colored by Ines Korth and Adrian vom Baur .

Huck Finn

The adaptation of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose from the specifications of the Suhrkamp Verlag , for their new graphic novel line curated by Andreas Platthaus to initially only implement works from their own program as comics. Olivia Vieweg moved the work into the 21st century and from the Mississippi to the Saale . She made the slave boy Jim into an Asian forced prostitute Jin.

Antoinette returns

The comic scholarship, awarded by Ehapa for the first time in 2012 , had the motto “Heimat 2.0” and was endowed with an advance payment of € 5000 and a fixed publication by the publisher. Vieweg won the award with her exposé about a young woman who seeks revenge and who comes to her old home from Los Angeles. The story quotes The Visit of the Old Lady , but also uses the motif “Bullying among young people” from Mohiro Kito's manga Naru Taru .

Prices

bibliography

comics

Cartoons

Anthology articles

  • Low school . In: Manga Spot 2006 . Animexx, Munich 2006, p. 49-67 .
  • Godfather dead . In: It was never (=  tower manga special ). tape 1 . Schwarzer Turm, Hünfeld 2006, ISBN 3-934167-30-6 .
  • All roads lead to Rome . In: Paper Theater . No. 2 . Schwarzer Turm, Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-934167-29-2 , p. 51-72 .
  • The tide . In: Manga-Mixx . No. 3 . Animexx, Munich 2007, DNB  1047275058 , p. 70–88 (freely based on Mr. Keuner and the flood by Bertolt Brecht).
  • Princess and the Pea . In: Subway to Sally Storybook . tape 1 . Egmont Manga & Anime, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7704-6938-3 , p. 181-188 .
  • Tomorrow I'm gone . In: Paper Theater . No. 6 . Schwarzer Turm, Weimar 2009, ISBN 3-934167-29-2 , p. 167-183 .
  • No plan! In: Comix & Beer. 100 completely legal comic right violations . Comic table Leipzig, Leipzig 2009, p. 21 .
  • The black sea . In: Subway to Sally Storybook . tape 2 . Schwarzer Turm, Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-934167-58-2 , p. 107-116 .

As editor

  • (with Vicky Danko and Beatrice Beckmann): Paper Theater Volume 6 and 7
  • Subway to Sally Storybook 1 and 2
  • Bloom Dreams 2 (=  Tower Manga special . Volume 7 ). Schwarzer Turm, Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-934167-45-2 .
  • Bloom Dreams 3 (=  Tower Manga special . Volume 9 ). Black Tower, Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-934167-49-0 .

Web links

Commons : Olivia Vieweg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Bernd Hinrichs: Made in Germany. The Alfonz drawing portrait. Episode 5: Olivia Vieweg . In: Alfonz - The comic reporter . No. 2 (April-June). Edition Alfons , Verlag Volker Hamann, 2014, ISSN  2194-2706 , p. 44 f .
  2. ↑ Simone Xie, Anne Plätzke (Ed.): Paper Theater . No. 2 . Schwarzer Turm, Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-934167-29-2 , p. 52 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Matthias Hofmann: "The boys and I have decided to start a gang." On the trail of Huckleberry Finn . In: Zack . No. 171 . Mosaik Steinchen for Steinchen Verlag, September 2013, ISSN  1438-2792 , p. 34–36 (interview with Olivia Vieweg).
  4. ^ Christian Werner: Drawing student. Big cats everywhere. Die Zeit , November 5, 2009, p. 2 , accessed on June 2, 2014 : "From December 12, 2009 the Stadtmuseum Gera [...]"
  5. ↑ a b Andreas Platthaus: From Mangafan to Comics Championship. March 5, 2010, accessed May 31, 2014 .
  6. ^ A b Lars von Törne: Portrait of comic artist Olivia Vieweg. The world changer. Der Tagesspiegel , July 29, 2013, archived from the original on May 27, 2014 ; accessed on August 14, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Lars von Törne: New Tagesspiegel comic strip. The fabulous world of Olivia Vieweg. Der Tagesspiegel, July 1, 2014, accessed on August 14, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Olivia Vieweg: Antoinette returns . 1st edition. Egmont Graphic Novel, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-7704-5500-3 , p. 89 .
  9. ↑ Ibid, p. 93
  10. ↑ Portrait: Olivia Vieweg . In: Comix . No. 3/2011 . JNK, Verlag Jurgeit, Krismann & Nobst, Berlin 2011, DNB  1014791847 , p. 23 .
  11. ↑ Black Tower at the Leipzig Book Fair 2011. Black Tower, March 14, 2011, accessed on May 28, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Olivia Vieweg: Big Cat. Jump . In: Comix . No. 3/2011 . JNK, Verlag Jurgeit, Krismann & Nobst, Berlin 2011, DNB  1014791847 , p. 22 . , Olivia Vieweg: Big cat. New competition . In: Comix . No. 5/2011 . JNK, Verlag Jurgeit, Krismann & Nobst, Berlin 2011, p. 20 . , Olivia Vieweg: Big cat. Bad tricks . In: Comix . No. 7/2011 . JNK, Verlag Jurgeit, Krismann & Nobst, Berlin 2011, p. 4 .
  13. ↑ in issue 04/2012 to 06/2012; each JNK, Verlag Jurgeit, Krismann & Nobst, Berlin
  14. ↑ Christine Reissing: "End Times": Zombie Apocalypse between Weimar and Jena. mdr.de 2018
  15. ↑ Barbara Buchholz: "Endzeit" revisited To life and death in the zombie zone. tagesspiegel.de 2018
  16. ^ Matthias Hofmann: Suhrkamp goes graphic novel: "Good comics need their time". Comic Report, 2011, accessed on May 29, 2014 (interview with Andreas Platthaus).
  17. ↑ Steffen Hautog: Das Comic- Stipendium 2012. From the diary of a Costima . In: Alfonz - The comic reporter . No. 1 (January-March). Edition Alfons, Verlag Volker Hamann, 2012, ISSN  2194-2706 , p. 13–16 (Costima for comic scholarship makers).
  18. ↑ Anna Mayrhauser : Mourning sausage and avenging angel. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 2, 2014, p. 12 (review of Vieweg and Britt / Arsenault)
  19. ↑ Super User: 2014/15. Retrieved September 13, 2017 (German).
  20. ↑ Felix Giesa (Interview): Prize Winner 2010 Special Jury Prize for a special achievement or publication: Vicky Danko, Beatrice Beckmann and Olivia Vieweg for their commitment to the Independent Manga . In: Comic! 2011 yearbook . Interest Association Comic eV ICOM, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-88834-941-6 , p. 210, 212 ( comic-i.com - only in excerpts, information to be substantiated but complete).
personal data
SURNAME Vieweg, Olivia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES VenusKaiô (pseudonym); VenusKaio (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comic artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena