Bernd Kissel

Bernd Kissel

Bernd Kissel (born May 24, 1978 in Saarbrücken ) is a German draftsman , qualified cartoonist and graphic artist .

Life

Bernd Kissel grew up in the Berus district of the Saarland community of Überherrn . From 1985 to 1989 he attended elementary school in Berus, after which he switched to the Max Planck Gymnasium in Saarlouis , where he graduated from high school in 1997. Subsequently, from 1998 to 2000 he completed an apprenticeship as an animator at the Lycée Technique des Arts et Métiers in Luxembourg , which he successfully completed with the BTS animation diploma.

Kissel is married, he lives as a freelance artist and graphic designer in Überherrn-Berus.

Professional background

After his professional training, Bernd Kissel worked from 2000 to 2007 as a background and prop designer on various projects:

• "Liberty's Kids" (DiC Entertainment)
• "T'choupi" (Les Armateurs)
• "Kenny The Shark" (Phase 4)
• "Strawberry Shortcake" (German: " Strawberry Shortcake ")
• "Horseland" (German: "Horseland - The horse ranch")

From 2007 to 2009 Kissel produced, among other things, over 100 episodes of the comic series "Saar Legenden", which appeared in the Saarbrücker Zeitung . Until the end of 2011, Kissel produced the comic series “Saarland Album”, which was also published in the Saarbrücker Zeitung on a weekly basis and in autumn 2015 received its own adaptation with Langhals & Dickkopp in the leading roles. In spring 2012, Kissel wrote and drew the online crime thriller “Tödliches Wolfsrudel” for ZDF.de. The comic is the continuation of the successful television film "Murderous Wasp's Nest". The last episode was posted on April 16, 2012 a few hours before the broadcast of the second provincial thriller "Death of a carrier pigeon" and thus served as a transition to the second TV film about the quirky private detective Finn Zehender (Hinnerk Schönemann). After that, Kissel wrote and drew another Finn Zehender comic book thriller entitled "Tödlicher Windhauch". In 2016, Kissel drew the graphic novel “Münchhausen - The Truth About Lies” written by Flix , which was published by Carlsen Verlag . She won the " Rudolph Dirks Award " 2016 for "Best literary adaptation".

Awards

• Rudolph Dirks Award 2016 for “Literary Adaptation”: Münchhausen. The truth about lying

Works

• Saar legends . Saarbrücken: Geistkirch-Verlag, 2007. 40 pp. ISBN 978-3-938889-59-6 .
• Saar legends. Volume 2. Saarbrücken: Geistkirch-Verlag, 2008. 40 pp. ISBN 978-3-938889-65-7 .
• Saar legends. Volume 3. Saarbrücken: Geistkirch-Verlag, 2009. 44 pp. ISBN 978-3-938889-65-7 .
• Saar legends . Calendar 2009. Saarbrücken: Geistkirch-Verlag, 2009. OCLC 316281064.
• Saarland album. 70 episodes of history and stories from the Saarland. Comics. Saarbrücken: Geistkirch-Verlag, 2011. 80 pp. ISBN 978-3-938889-33-6 .
• Faim d'Histoire: À la découverte de la Nouvelle - France , Cornelsen 2012, ISBN 978-3-06-520099-8 .
• Faim d'Histoire: À l'ombre des gargouilles , Cornelsen 2010, ISBN 978-3-06-520100-1 .
• Faim d'Histoire: Le masque d'or , Cornelsen 2010, ISBN 978-3-06-520101-8 .
• Faim d'Histoire: Sous les yeux du sphinx , Cornelsen 2011, ISBN 978-3-06-520102-5 .
• HiStoryTime: Dangerous Cliffs , Cornelsen 2012, ISBN 978-3-06-033146-8 .
• Munchausen. The truth about lying (with Flix ), Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-551-76303-7 .
• Saarlouis - In the river of time (with Benedikt Loew), Saarbrücken: Geistkirch Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-946036-52-4
• Bottleneck Free State (with Marco Wiersch ), Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-551-78150-5

literature

• Oliver Schwambach: Münchhausen on the couch. Two Saar cartoonists, Bernd Kissel and Flix, have revitalized the baron of lies in the comic. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung from June 15, 2016, p. B4

Web links

• Homepage Bernd Kissel
• Saarland album
• Video about Kissel (Saarländischer Rundfunk / Kulturspiegel from May 2010 <6 Min>)
• ZDF online crime thriller "Deadly Wolf Pack"