Dieter Burkamp

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Dieter Burkamp (born November 18, 1940 in Oerlinghausen ; † June 15, 2012 ) was a German journalist , author and publisher .

Life

After school and traineeship , Dieter Burkamp was initially editor of the Westfälische Zeitung or its successor, Neue Westfälische in Bielefeld, from 1963 to 2001 , 35 years of which as editor-in-chief. He then worked as a freelance journalist for West German Broadcasting . In the Bielefeld studio of the WDR he was responsible for regional reporting from East Westphalia-Lippe and until 2012 for police reporting.

Since 1970 he has been working intensively on the subject of caricature . Together with his wife, the art historian Gisela Burkamp , he realized well over a hundred exhibitions on this topic at home and abroad from 1980. In 1989 he was appointed to the jury of the “Satyrykon” caricature competition in Legnica (Poland) for the first time , to which he had been a member for more than a decade. He was also u. a. invited as a jury member to competitions in Antwerp (Belgium), Surgut and Kaliningrad (Russia) as well as in Zemun (Serbia) and Germany. In 1993 Dieter Burkamp curated the exhibition tour "Satyrykon - International Caricatures" together with Theodor Helmert-Corvey, which led to 18 cities in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2000, as artistic director, he organized the caricature competition “Herman the German” for the 125th birthday of the Hermann monument in the Teutoburg Forest, a year later, together with Walther Keim, the traveling exhibition “Neighbors - German cartoonists see Poland, Polish cartoonists see Germany”, which in was shown in more than 30 cities in Germany and Poland. In 2004, the project “Ten new ones for Europe”, conceived together with Gisela Burkamp, ​​followed on the occasion of the accession of ten other countries to the EU. The exhibition opened in the Berlin House of Representatives and went on tour for three years through Germany, Belgium, Serbia, Romania, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Poland. In 2007 the German-Serbian project "His Master's Line" was created with drawings by top cartoonists from Europe who are still active, over 75 years old, which Dieter Burkamp carried out together with Branko Najhold. In the mid-1980s, Dieter Burkamp founded the art publisher "edition pro", which publishes portfolios and books. In the last year of his life, he initiated the "2011 Culture Initiative" for the 975th anniversary of his hometown Oerlinghausen . The association of regional institutions and private individuals organized various cultural events.

Books and catalogs (selection)

  • 1986 Drawings, Zygmunt Januszewski, edition pro, Oerlinghausen
  • 1987 Academy of Drawing, Zygmunt Januszewski, edition pro, Oerlinghausen
  • 1988 A fool shows the flag, Zygmunt Januszewski, satirical drawings (editing), Kerber-Verlag Bielefeld, Leipzig, Berlin
  • 1993 Satyrykon - International Caricatures (together with Theodor Helmert Corvey), Kerber-Verlag, Bielefeld, Leipzig, Berlin
  • 1995 Jerzy Panek catalog raisonné of graphic works 1939-1993, edition pro and Kerber-Verlag, Bielefeld, Leipzig, Berlin
  • 1999 Crihana, caricatures, edition pro
  • 2001 Everything is fun, Ingvar-Wixell-Baritone, Kerber-Verlag, Bielefeld, Leipzig, Berlin
  • 2005 Walter Hanel, Kerber-Verlag, Bielefeld, Leipzig, Berlin
  • 2005 Panek-Gielniak, correspondence 1962-1972, National Library Warsaw, text contribution
  • 2007 His Master's Line (together with Branko Najhold), edition pro, Oerlinghausen, Trag, Zemun
  • 2008 Fritz Wolf , The Art of Caricature (with Gisela Burkamp), Rasch-Verlag, Bramsche
  • 2009 Satirical Idylls - Florian Doru Crihana, Kerber-Verlag, Bielefeld, Leipzig, Berlin
  • 2011 Home, views and confessions (together with Gisela Burkamp), Kerber-Verlag, Bielefeld-Leipzig-Berlin

Folders in the edition pro

  • 1988 Walter Hanel, basso continuo, offset lithographs
  • 1989 regio-Amici, Blecke, Petit Frére, Koch, Sommer, Winkler. Etchings, collages, woodcuts
  • 1989 Zygmunt Januszewski, Panoptikum. Etchings
  • 1990 Jerzy Panek, self-portrait with a white hat. 5 woodcuts
  • 1991 Zygmunt Januszewski, etchings
  • 1992 Hans-Ludwig Böhme, photographs
  • 1993 Walter Hanel, Bestiary. Offset lithographs
  • 1996 Oleg Dergatchov, Ten good pieces of advice. Etchings
  • 2000 Walter Hanel, literary octet. Offset lithographs

Exhibition organizations

Burkamp was responsible for the organization of three exhibitions of international caricatures between 1990 and 1996, which were shown in up to 18 cities under the title Satyrykon. He also organized the following exhibitions:

  • 1991 The pilot disembarks, Kunstverein Oerlinghausen, Mönchehaus-Museum für Moderne Kunst Goslar
  • 1992 Satirical Summer, Kunstverein Oerlinghausen
  • 1993, Velo Cartoons, Gütersloh City Library and 9 other stations
  • 2000 pure satire, Kultursekretariat NRW, Revierpark Nienhausen Gelsenkirchen , City Library Wuppertal , Kulturamt Hagen, City Library Neuss
  • 2000 Herman the German, Landesmuseum Detmold and 13 other stations
  • 2001 Life is serious, 7 stations in Lower Saxony
  • 2001 Neighbors - German cartoonists see Poland, Polish cartoonists see Germany. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) Leipzig and around 15 other stations in Germany and Poland
  • 2004 Ten new ones for Europe, Berlin House of Representatives and around 20 other stations in Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic
  • 2005 Hello neighbors, State Representation for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg and Berlin
  • 2005 Szpilki- When needles prick, Kunstverein Oerlinghausen
  • 2007 Hungarian caricatures, Alte Abtei Lemgo, Kunstverein Oerlinghausen (2008)
  • 2009 Satirical Idylls, Florian Doru Crihana, Alte Abtei Lemgo
  • 2009 120 years of "The pilot disembarks", Old Lemgo Abbey
  • 2011 Vladimir Stepanov, caricatures from Russia, Lemgo Adult Education Center

Awards

  • 1998: Order of the Cavalier of the Republic of Poland

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by the WDR studio in Bielefeld on June 18, 2012
  2. ↑ The 2011 cultural initiative ends its work Neue Westfälische, January 12, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Burkamp, ​​Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Oerlinghausen
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 2012