Burkhard Ihme

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Burkhard Ihme (born March 24, 1954 in Stuttgart ) is a German comic artist , editor for specialist comic literature and songwriter . In addition, he is associated in particular with the association of comics eV, ICOM for short, of which he has been a member since it was founded in 1981 and of which he has been chairman since 1995. He is also a founding member of the Society for Comic Research (ComFor).

Life

Burkhard Ihme grew up as a child of librarians in Stuttgart with the works of classic representatives of German picture books and comics: Heinrich Hoffmann , Wilhelm Busch and eoplauen . A Mickey Mouse booklet that he received when he started school was defining for him .

As a musician and student

As a teenager and student, he became increasingly interested in music. From 1973 he appeared as a songwriter and took part in meetings of the AG Song . In 1974 he started working for Folkmagazin with a festival report , which will be published in issue 5/1974. His first published comic, the two-line strip Reino, appeared here from January 1975, which he later self- published. He also designed a total of 15 cover images and the last valid cover lettering for the folk magazine until it was discontinued in 1982. From 1975 he studied free graphics and graphic design at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart for six years and graduated as a designer with a focus on animation (some films were shown at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film). In 1976 he won a price as a musician at the Mainz OpenOhr Festival . In 1979 he released an LP with the title You mean it well with us at the label plan . In 1984 he appeared in the SWF's “ Talent Shed ” (where he also showed a specially made cartoon). Appearances have been rare since the 1990s.

As a comic artist

From 1980 he converted the Reino series, which was not exactly successful in folk magazine, from a music comic to a parodic adventure series about the eponymous songwriter. The first story Reino and the secret of the Stradivari appeared in the Göttinger Musikblatt in seven episodes from issue 10/1980, in 1982 as an album in the publishing house "Buch Musik & Film" founded by Ihme . Numerous allusions are built into this series, particularly to films and Franco-Belgian comics . A total of six regular albums and the special volume Twenty Years of Embarrassment with smaller works from music magazines have been released.

From 1985 to 1991 he published the piccolo series Ray Clark. To create the series, he invented a story about unpublished proofs from the 1950s, which a Walther Lingen Verlag had commissioned. With this anagram from Walter Lehning Verlag , he hoped to gain better access to the target audience. The invention of supposedly historical persons for the purpose of parody was nothing new to him. As early as 1980–82 he developed the brothers Heinrich and Erich Lempken with Nikolaus Gatter in the Musikblatt .

In the ICOM

The interest group Comic was founded in March 1981 and officially registered as an association in 1983, according to Ihme "as a kind of trade union [...] which it could never really become." He has been a member since the beginning and has been active in the association since the mid-1980s, initially as a typist and stand supervisor. Above all, however, he soon devoted himself to the work in the two association publications : ICOMintern, which is only reserved for members, and the public magazine ICOM INFO, later renamed COMIC INFO , most recently COMIC! In 1993 Ihme became editor of the internal magazine. In the mid-1990s, ICOM ran into financial problems, also due to the negative balance sheet for the Kaufmagazin and the bankruptcy of its sales department. Ihme ran for CFO in 1995 and has been the association's chairman since 1996.

One of his first official acts was the COMIC! adjust. In contrast , he was responsible for ICOMinternal until 2014 and was solely responsible for its content, which comprised around 120 pages per year, and is responsible for the content of the websites. In addition, he was the editor of the updated and expanded editions of 1995 and 1999 of the ICOM manual and in 1999 initiated the COMIC! Yearbook (published annually since 2000). In the first years he was not only an editor but also the main author of the yearbooks. In 2008 he was awarded the ICOM special prize by the association itself. In 2013 he received the PENG! , the award of the Munich Comic Festival in the category “Best Secondary Comics Literature ” for the COMIC! yearbook. The draftsmen Reinhard Horst alias FeliX and Peter Krüger are currently sitting next to him on the board.

In the ComFor

In 2005 he was one of the founding members of the Society for Comic Research (ComFor). From 2007 to 2013 he was its treasurer. At the end of 2011 he graphically implemented a design by Catherine Michel as the company's new logo.

Works (selection)

comics

Unless otherwise stated, published in the book Musik und Film Verlag

  • Reino - A Little Guide for Songwriters (1980)
  • Reino and the secret of the Stradivarius (1982)
  • Reino - In the Shadow of the Black Falcon (1982)
  • Reino - The Death Marsh of Bongo Malongo (1983)
  • Reino - The Last Plague of Mankind (1983)
  • Reino: Terror of the Galaxy (1984)
  • Reino - Thundering Disaster (1986)
  • Reino - Twenty Years of Embarrassment (1995)
  • The Mill (1985, Quasimodo Edition)
  • Mick Baxter the Master Detective (1986)
  • An Adventure of Reginald W. Spotherworth-Moulder Volume 1: Decision at Nudo Coropuna (1988, colored reprint 2004)
  • An Adventure of Reginald W. Spotherworth-Moulder Volume 2: The Prisoners of the K'üan-Fei (1991)
  • The miraculous world of symbols of BIR (1990)
  • It's Bungee-Time (1993, Tomus)
  • Run For Your Life (1994)
  • To head and neck "(1994)
  • The Green Ice Bomb (2002)
  • The Mill and Other Stories (2004, Solars)
  • Ray Clark Complete Edition (2005)
  • Free Comic Day 2010: The Green Ice Bomb (2010, newly colored and expanded version)
  • Free Comic Day 2011: Comics for Everyone! (2011, ICOM, editor, three articles)
  • Free Comic Day 2012: Even more comics for everyone! (2012, editor, cover, two articles, only on the internet)
  • Contributions to the tribute volumes Thanks, Carl (2001, Egmont), Wäscher - Pionier der Comics (2009, Edition 52) and A Tribute to Robert Crumb (2013, Edition 52)
  • Comic artist in dialogue (2017, ICOM, editor and co-artist / author)
  • The Forgotten Cases of Sherlock Holmes (2018, ICOM, editor and co-artist / author)

Comic book literature

  • ICOM Handbook (1995) (editor, layout)
  • ICOM-Handbuch * 99 (1999) (editor, layout)
  • COMIC! -Yearbook 2000 ff (to be published) (editor, layout)
  • The comic in the head of Frank Plein (editor, layout)
  • Montage in the comic. Specific use of a narrative tool in the structure and history of comics. Contributions to comic research, ed. by Dietrich Grünewald (2010, Ch.A. Bachmann Verlag)
  • The unreliable narrator (contribution to the round table of the Society for Comic Research on www.comicgesellschaft.de)
  • Fees, contracts, copyright - ICOM guide for comics, cartoon and animation by Christof Ruoss, Frank Pfeifer and Martin Boden (2019) (editing, layout)

Texts / notes

  • FOLKBUCH 8 - Lied 77/78. (Edition Venceremos 1978) Texts and sheet music by 20 songwriters and cabaret artists (author and editor)
  • ... because there is a rhyme behind it. (1979)
  • Eternal love. (1989)

Discography

  • Burkhard Ihme: You mean well with us. (plans, 1979)
  • Song I sing on: For whom we sing. Songwriter in Germany. ( Bear Family Records 2007)


Prices

literature

  • Andreas Dierks: Special jury prize for a special achievement or publication: Burkhard Ihme. Interview with Burkhard Ihme in COMIC! Yearbook 2009. ICOM, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-88834-939-3 .
  • Michael Hüster: The ICOM man: In conversation with Burkhard Ihme. In: ZACK 123. Mosaik - Steinchen for Steinchen Verlag, August 2009.
  • Nikolaus Gatter: “Songwriter fans weren't nerds” - Interview with Burkhard Ihme in COMIC! -Yearbook 2016. ICOM, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-88834-946-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Andreas Dierks: Special jury award for a special achievement or publication: Burkhard Ihme . In: Comic! Yearbook . tape 2009 . ICOM, Stuttgart 2008 ( excerpts online [accessed on November 26, 2013] interview).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Michael Hüster: The ICOM man: In conversation with Burkhard Ihme . In: Zack . No. 123 . Mosaik Steinchen for Steinchen Verlag, September 2009, ISSN  1438-2792 , p. 68 f . (Interview).
  3. ↑ Artists from 1975 to 2013. (No longer available online.) OpenOhr Festival, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved November 27, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.openohr.de
  4. ↑ Burkhard Ihme, Holger Bommer: The green ice bomb . Booklet for Free Comic Day 2010. Book Musik & Film Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-88834-414-5 , pp. 47 .
  5. ↑ Ray Clark. German Comic Guide , accessed November 27, 2013 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Matthias Hofmann: On the drip of Burkhard Ihme. Association of comics: An association turns 30 . In: Comic Report . tape 2012 . Edition Alfons, Barnstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-940216-13-7 , p. 31-36 .
  7. ↑ PENG! Price. The Munich Comic Prize. (No longer available online.) Munich Comic Festival , archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved November 29, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.comicfestival-muenchen.de
  8. ↑ Personnel changes in the board and editorial team. ComFor, November 21, 2013, accessed on November 28, 2013 .
  9. ^ Society for comic research with a new logo. ComFor, December 26, 2011, accessed on November 29, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Me, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comic artist and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart