Willy Moese

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Willy Moese (born July 21, 1927 in Barcelona , Spain ; † February 14, 2007 in Berlin ) was a German comic artist and caricaturist .

Life

Moese grew up in Barcelona in a German-Spanish family. His father was a German who emigrated from Bohemia after the First World War , and his mother was Spanish. At the age of three he started school in a convent school in Barcelona. After moving to the German secondary school, the family left the country because of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and returned to Germany, where Moese initially began an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk in a porcelain factory and was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1944 .

After his release from captivity , he initially lived in Bavaria and carried out various activities. In 1948 he used his drawing skills as a painter and later made it his profession as a press illustrator . The artist drew for various German sheets. From 1953 he received orders from the GDR magazines Zeit im Bild and Wochenpost . In the latter in particular, his drawings and caricatures soon appeared regularly. In 1955 Moese moved to Berlin, where almost all of the magazines he worked for were based. From then on he lived in the eastern part .

As a freelance draftsman, he created cartoons for daily newspapers and theater posters, above all comic series for NBI , Junge Welt and, above all, for the weekly mail . He also designed titles for the children's magazines Atze , Bummi , FRÖSI and the pioneering organ drum . For the cabaret Die Distel and academixer he designed stage sets.

The series Klaus und Choko with 145 episodes, which appeared from 1957 to 1960, was his longest-running comic series. In addition to this work, he also published some of his series as anthologies in book form.

Moese, who was critical of the cultural policy of the GDR, was one of the signatories against Biermann's expatriation and was therefore also observed by the state security in the "pen" operation .

Willy Moese was a member of the Association of Fine Artists of the GDR. He is the creator of the mascot of the NBI children's website , the monkey NUK , which was part of the paper for 20 years. Well-known series were Blaff and Biene in the Wochenpost and Rolle and Robby in the Atze . The last appeared in a shortened and greatly modified form under the title Romy and Roby between 1980 and 1983 in the children's magazine Junior of the Swiss Pharmacists' Association. Together with Jürgen Kieser , he created the Trix and Droll series for Frösi .

Willy Moese provided regular caricature articles for the GDR satirical magazine Eulenspiegel .

Willy Moese was also the creator of so-called Plastikaturen , sculptures with satirical content similar to that of cartoons. He created the “BLA-BLA” typewriter, which was presented at the 8th  Art Exhibition of the GDR . He was also a designer of toys that could also be seen at exhibitions.

With the political change in the GDR Moese became the publisher of comic magazines. But both the 1989 joker and the Jolly couldn't prevail and were discontinued. As a commercial artist, Moese had been under contract for the Reichsbahn company health insurance fund since 1994.

Moese is buried in the Kaulsdorf cemetery. He was married to the TV announcer Maria Moese and lived in Berlin-Kaulsdorf. He has two children, his son Felix Moese works for Hit Radio FFH .

Publications

  • Colorful box . Berlin 1966
  • For example quintuplets , with a foreword by Jurek Becker . Berlin 1972
  • Klaus & Choko . Anthology, Berlin 1994
  • WiM's animal life . Berlin 1997
  • Willy Moese - caricatures and picture stories . Cologne 2013

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Reinhard Pfeiffer: From Hannes Hegen to Erich Schmitt - Lexicon of caricaturists, press and comic artists of the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, 1998. pp. 169 f.
personal data
SURNAME Moese, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comic artist and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona , Spain
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2007
Place of death Berlin