Clovis Poth
Chlodwig Poth (born April 4, 1930 in Wuppertal ; † July 8, 2004 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German satirist, draftsman, caricaturist and comic artist. He was one of the founders of the New Frankfurt School and the magazines Pardon and Titanic .
life and work
Poth grew up in Berlin-Tempelhof from 1936 . He discovered his interest in caricatures as a child . His great role model was Wilhelm Busch . His first two printed caricatures appeared in the Junge Welt , at that time the central organ of the FDJ . In 1947 he studied at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin. He got his first permanent job during the blockade of West Berlin with Der Insulaner , a satirical magazine. He later also worked for Tarantel magazine . He published drawings in several German magazines under the pseudonyms Claude and Wig .
In 1955 Poth moved to Frankfurt am Main. First he worked as an editor for a magazine for a tire company. In 1962 he co-founded the satirical magazine Pardon . During the student protests in the late 1960s, he was considered a respected " APO -Opa", his cartoon series My progressive everyday life on the left-wing alternative scene appeared first in pardon and later in book form and developed into a bestseller. In 1979 Poth founded Titanic magazine together with other draftsmen and authors , for which he regularly drew until his death. In addition to his drawings, Chlodwig Poth created a number of oil paintings and wrote three novels.
In 1990 Poth moved to the Sossenheim district of Frankfurt . Inspired by everyday life there, his biting everyday sketches have been published every month under the title Last Exit Sossenheim in the Titanic. In 1997 he was the first to be awarded the German satirical prize Göttinger Elch , and in 2003 the Goethe plaque of the city of Frankfurt am Main . In the last years of his life, Poth became increasingly blind ( macular degeneration ), so that he could only draw with the help of technical aids, as he describes in detail in his autobiography From the life of a Taugewas . He loved walks in the Sossenheim meadows in Frankfurt's green belt , and in 2003 five picture steles with reproductions of his drawings were set up there in one of his favorite places - on the hawthorn meadow in Sossenheim Unterfeld . Frankfurt honored him in 2006 with a Chlodwig-Poth system in the Sossenheim district.
Poth died on July 8, 2004, two days after his colleague Bernd Pfarr , who had also drawn for the Titanic , of cancer. On July 15, he was buried in the Höchst cemetery.
Poth will continue to be listed in the Titanic imprint as a permanent employee.
His daughter Leonore Poth works as an illustrator.
Works
- Austria, of all places
- The Lord of the Big Wide World (1960)
- Sour Reading Fruits (1960)
- Spit back in anger - historical outline of a youth movement (1961), Bärmeier and Nickel Verlag, Frankfurt a. M.
- Contact person, written 1974, first published in 1975, new edition October Verlag Münster 2002. ISBN 3-935792-10-7
- My progressive everyday life (1975), ISBN 3-499-11807-6
- Everyday Parents' Day (1977)
- Our daily frustration - My progressive everyday life 2 (1978), ISBN 3 49914215 5
- How to represent the people (1980), Cartoons, Fischer-Verlag
- The Disaster Book (1982), ISBN 3-426-02715-1
- The union of mind and body with Richard's help (1982). A cheerful romance novel, Fischer-Verlag,
- Dance on the volcano. 24 picture stories (1984). ISBN 3-455-08638-1
- Frankfurt or a penultimate day of humanity (1986). ISBN 3-251-00077-2
- Marital War Tactics. New, tightened edition (1986). ISBN 3-8105-1503-5
- What's wrong with our crises? (1986). ISBN 3-596-28192-X
- Dance on the Volcano (1988). ISBN 3-426-02716-X
- Frankfurter Federlese (1990). ISBN 3-7829-0399-4
- Sparkling wine with sixty (1990). ISBN 3-8218-2116-7
- 50 Years of Abundance (1990). ISBN 3-926901-28-4
- Last Exit Sossenheim (1993). ISBN 3-926901-62-4
- Millennia (1997). ISBN 3-89082-754-3
- I'll show you (2000). ISBN 3-88520-776-1
- From the life of a Taugewas (2002). ISBN 3-550-07542-1
- My progressive everyday life (2004). ISBN 3-934769-21-7
Awards
- Göttingen Moose (1997)
- Binding Culture Prize (2003)
- Goethe plaque of the city of Frankfurt am Main (2003)
- In January 2016 , the "Hollenbeck road robbery" in Hollenbeck, Harsefeld municipality , was resolved by renaming an intersection in memory of the caricaturist to Chlodwig-Poth-Platz.
Exhibitions
- 2010: Chlodwig Poth . Caricatura Museum, Frankfurt am Main
- 2001: Chlodwig Poth: Last Exit Sossenheim , Stadthaus Ulm
literature
- Roman Fischer, Poth, Chlodwig in the Frankfurt Personal Lexicon
- Oliver Maria Schmitt: The satirist: or why Chlodwig Poth is not an old man , in: Oliver Maria Schmitt: The sharpest critics of the elks. The New Frankfurter School in words and lines and pictures . Fest, Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-8286-0109-X , pp. 36-57
- Chlodwig Poth: From the life of a Taugewas . Ullstein, Munich 2002. ISBN 3-550-07542-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Chlodwig Poth in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas Platthaus: Chlodwig Poth: The first satirist of the republic . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 16, 2019]).
- ^ Leonore Poth in the New German Library
- ↑ Chlodwig-Poth-Platz Kreiszeitung Wochenblatt
- ^ Hollenbeck street robbery The party
- ↑ Chlodwig-Poth-Platz OpenStreetmap.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Poth, Clovis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German satirist, draftsman, caricaturist and comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wuppertal |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 2004 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |