Alfred von Meysenbug

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Alfred von Meysenbug (born January 1, 1940 in Gießmannsdorf , Lower Silesia ; † February 19, 2020 in Hamburg ; bourgeois Karl Alfred Freiherr von Meysenbug ) was a German comic artist of the 1968 generation.

life and work

Meysenbug grew up in Hanover . He studied sociology and philosophy with Adorno and then worked as a book illustrator and commercial artist in Frankfurt am Main . From Meysenburg also a strange historical document, a snapshot of the three topless comes Adorno - bombers of 22 April 1969 in Frankfurt University . Meysenbug later prohibited the use of this historical recording. In 1978 Meysenbug designed the record sleeve for Udo Lindenberg's Rock Revue, directed by Peter Zadek . He was also Lindenberg's text and art advisor on many CDs.

Alfred von Meysenbug (left) and Natias Neutert at a district festival in Hamburg-Winterhude, 1977

In his early comics Super-Mädchen und Glamor-Girl , he worked in the linear pop art style of Roy Lichtenstein . The drawings are always in a conscious tension with the language and the narration, which aims at emancipatory awareness. The art critic Bazon Brock commented on the comics Super-Mädchen and Glamor-Girl that Meysenbug wanted to “achieve the usurpation of the comic from pastime to time determination. The commenting text describes the forms of current attempts at socialization. Super-Mädchen is a saleswoman who slowly realizes that she is always selling herself. Therefore, she honors the truth and takes to the streets. Glamor Girl lies and lives on the street until she realizes that only the political union with others can be an organizational principle of her life. As a saleswoman you are a whore, but as a whore you have the chance to become aware of your situation. "

Whichever style the artist worked in, it was always based on photographs of good friends and acquaintances that he himself staged. The scene actress Carla Aulaulu was the model for the character of Jolly Boom from his comic book Super-Mädchen: The End of the Saleswoman Jolly Boom . Friends like Bernd Brummbär and Natias Neutert also slipped into other roles in his arsenal of figures .

Meysenbug illustrated the powerful sex education book Sexfront by Günter Amendt , which has been sold more than 500,000 times in several editions since 1970.

Meysenbug's oeuvre includes several works based on literary classics, such as The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde or Charles Perrault's art fairy tale Der kleine Däumling , published in 1697 . For his comic Däumling , published in 1991 , Meysenbug was awarded the Pied Piper Prize of the City of Hameln in 1992 .

Works (selection)

  • Petting: Comic-Essay , in: Peng , No. 3. Hans-Peter Ernst (Ed.) Reprinted in: Margret Kosel: Gammler, Beatniks, Provos , Bärmeier & Nikel, Frankfurt, 1967, pp. 170–173.
  • Jürgen Allweiler, A. v. Meysenbug, Volker Erbes : Mutiny against the school . Ring Publications Gerold Dommermuth, Frankfurter Ringfibel , No. 15, Frankfurt 1969. Diameter 60 mm, 88 p.
  • A. v. Meysenbug (graphic artist), PG Hübsch (copywriter): Mini-Faust . Ring Publications Gerold Dommermuth, Frankfurter Ringfibel Nr. 13, Frankfurt 1968. Diameter approx. 75 mm (?), 48 sheets, 96 pages, 1968.
  • Super girl. The end of the shop assistant Jolly Boom . Comic-Strip (Streit-Zeit-Bilder 1), editor Horst Bingen, Heinrich-Heine Verlag, 1968. 4 °; 33 sheets, 64 pages ISBN 978-3-631-36599-1
  • Glamor Girl: Glamorous text and drawing by Alfred von Meysenbug. Comic strip. In the series of Streit-Zeit-Bücher , No. 2, Heinrich-Heine Verlag, Frankfurt 1968. 8 °; 48 sheets, 96 p.
  • Alfred Demarc (d.i.A. v. Meysenbug): Lucy's Lustbuch , March, Frankfurt 1971.
  • The happy prince. Text by Oscar Wilde , Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972.
  • Super girls and other comics from the last days of the big boom , Two Thousand One , Frankfurt am Main 1975. Foreword by Günter Amendt: Artists in the anti-authoritarian movement
  • Udo Lindenberg: Lindenbergs Rock Revue , LP, Telefunken Decca, 1978. Cover and accompanying comic, 8 pp.
  • Däumling , Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991.

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Death report accessed on March 14, 2020
  2. ↑ Tanja Stelzer: The imposition of the meat - Tagesspiegel of December 7, 2003
  3. ↑ Documentation of the front pages of the comics Super Mädchen and Glamor Girl ( Memento from September 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Bazon Brock: Books to touch. Alfred von Meysenbugs ComicStrips' (glamor girl and super girl), in: Frankfurter Rundschau of September 18, 1969. Online at: http://www.bazonbrock.de/werke/detail/?id=667§id=1056&highlight=Meysenbug#sect
  5. ↑ D. i. Carla Egerer Carla Egerer in the Internet Movie Database (English). She was the star in Rosa von Praunheim's first films, later shot with Werner Schroeter , with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and, alongside Praunheim, played the leading role in Oh Muvie , a photo novel without words by the photographer Elfi Mikesch . ( Oh Muvie was published in 1969 as Streit-Zeit-Buch Nr. 5, in Heinrich-Heine Verlag).
  6. ↑ Frankfurt underground publisher and artist.
  7. ↑ Website of the City of Hameln with the previous winners of the Pied Piper Literature Prize http://www.hameln.de/kultur/kultur/rattenfaenger-literaturpreis/preistraeger.htm
  8. ↑ Meysenbug has been drawing for Peng (B. Dolle-Weinkauf) since 1963 , and later for the student magazine Diskus . Tilman Fichter, Siegward Lönnendonker ( Kleine Geschichte des SDS , Rotbuch, Berlin, 1977, p. 109) remember his comic commentary on the Dutschke assassination: The whole thing is a fabulous process THE WHOLE IT IS VERY SIMPLE SUCKS .
  9. ↑ With a text by Diskus editor David H. Wittenberg: Hot Dog . Illustration of the book object at Kronthaler.
  10. ↑ There was at least one other dispute-time images -Buch, namely Karel Nepras: Dolls Breast (drawings). In 1968/69 Heinrich Heine Verlag published the Streit-Zeit-Schrift and Streit-Zeit-Bücher .
  11. ↑ Prohibited. According to Schröder, 10,000 confiscated specimens allegedly destroyed. Fac-similated in twenty-five sequels on Schröder & Kalender , the taz blog of the former March publisher Jörg Schröder, December 7, 2006–4. May 2007
personal data
SURNAME Meysenbug, Alfred von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meysenbug, Karl Alfred von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comic artist and commercial artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Gießmannsdorf , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 2020
Place of death Hamburg