Arno Faust
Arno Faust (born December 12, 1918 in Großkönigsdorf ; † February 5, 1984 in Cologne ) was a German singer and illustrator; he was considered " Kölsches Original".
Life
After the Second World War, Faust appeared as Faust und Fäustchen with singing numbers; In 1957 he met Salvador Dalí and drew him. In the middle of the Cold War , he is said to have sung American songs in a Moscow hotel in 1959. His caricatures were published in the 1950s in the Cologne edition of the NRZ (Neue Rheinzeitung) and from 1962 to 1971 in the Kölner Stadtanzeiger and the Kölnische Rundschau , but are also said to have found buyers for a glass of Kölsch in his regular Cologne pub, “Die Kleine Glocke” to have. In the 1970s he drew the pause stills for the WDR television broadcasts from the Millowitsch Theater in Cologne .
Arno Faust's life was marked by constant financial difficulties. So it happened that he ran out of fuel and burned the door frames of his apartment. Some frames had to serve as a drawing sheet.
After severe blows in the family, Faust finally died of liver disease in 1984 after a long period of diabetes. Around 500 people attended his funeral in Cologne's Melaten cemetery ; his tombstone was designed by Wolfgang Reuter with many allegories of Faust's life and is crowned by a "laurel wreath" made of cabbage leaves.
literature
- Hildegard Lobenthal, Arno Faust. A draftsman & troubadour from Cologne , 1986, ISBN 3879091552
- D. Höss: Arno Faust , in: Jürgen Bennack, Ganz unter uns. Kumedemächer and dreamers, clergy and realists. Stories about Kölner and Imis , 2002, ISBN 3761616139
Web links
- Arnold Faust December 12, 1918 ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faust, Arno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Großkönigsdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th February 1984 |
| Place of death | Cologne |