Berndt A. Skott
Berndt A. Skott (* late February 1943 in Königsberg / East Prussia; † June 18, 2018 in Düsseldorf ) was a German cartoonist .
Life
Even as a child, Skott, according to his own statements, scribbled on every piece of paper he could get his hands on; for example his father's blueprints. Nevertheless, after leaving school he followed in his footsteps and learned to be a bricklayer. But he was also active in fireplace construction, was advertising manager in furniture retailing, small publisher, interior designer and lived and worked in Greece for several years.
In 1991 Newsweek finally published Skott's first cartoon; a commentary on the war in Yugoslavia. Two years later he was able to make a living from his work as a cartoonist. He did it as an autodidact who had never attended art academy.
Until his death in June 2018, he drew one or two caricatures a day. He drew for the Berliner Zeitung , Das Parlament , Focus , Handelsblatt , Kölner Stadtanzeiger , WAZ , Die Welt , Welt am Sonntag , Westdeutsche Zeitung , and free of charge for the homeless magazines: Bodo Straßenmagazin (Dortmund), Fifty-Fifty (Düsseldorf), Trott-war (Stuttgart) and since 2014 also for the website of Deutschlandfunk.
Skott worked according to the maxim "as little text as possible".
"Otherwise it would be a comic!"
or
"If it's a caricature, I'm ready for any outrage!"
Skott lived in Düsseldorf, Mülheim an der Ruhr and most recently in Kassel . He was the father of a daughter and a son.
Books
- His works were part of five of the seven collections of caricatures caricatures from 1991–1999 , summarized by Klaus Bresser .
- Together with Olaf Cless: Stuntort Deutschland fifty glosses and fifty caricatures , Fiftyfifty Edition, Düsseldorf 2009
Awards
- 1995: German Prize for Political Caricature , 3rd place
- 1995: Thomas Nast Prize from the city of Landau in the Palatinate
- 1999: German Prize for Political Caricature , Sponsorship Prize
- 2002: German Prize for Political Caricature , Sponsorship Prize
- 2004: Flashback : German Prize for Political Caricature, 2nd place
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from June 19, 2018: Obituary for Berndt Skott: Clear edge, grandiose drawn , by Wolfgang Wagner , accessed on June 20, 2018
- ↑ Short biography ( memento of the original from January 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. berndt-a-skott.de, September 5, 2014
- ^ Provoking with pencil and ink Rheinische Post from April 19, 2013
- ↑ Berndt A. Skott: from bricklayer to drawing critic Westdeutsche Zeitung from April 11, 2013
- ↑ Klaus Bresser : The caricatures of the year 1997 , Verlag Walter Podszun, Brilon 1998
- ↑ Chancellor in three minutes, Deutschlandfunk, June 7, 2014
- ↑ a b Berndt A. Skott mitspitzerfeder.de (German Prize for Political Caricature) from January 12, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Skott, Berndt A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Skott, Berndt Arno (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cartoonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 2018 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |