Dieter Kalenbach

Dieter Kalenbach (born August 29, 1937 in Düsseldorf ) is a German comic artist .

After studying in Hamburg at the Hamburg University of Design , Kalenbach worked as a freelance graphic artist and set designer and made numerous trips, most of which took him to Scandinavia and especially to Lapland .

His most important work, inspired by these journeys, is the comic book Turi and Tolk , translated into several languages and first published in 1973 in ZACK magazine . It is about the Lappish boy Turi and his tame eagle Tolk.

The two-volume biography in comic form published in 1989 for the hundredth birthday of Adolf Hitler caused a stir . The text is from Friedemann Bedürftig with drawings by Kalenbach. While the critical comic was funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Reading Foundation, it was badly reviewed by Jan Philipp Reemtsma, among others , because he particularly rejects the comic as a means of historical representation of National Socialism.

Kalenbach now lives in Brobergen near Hamburg .

bibliography

• Turi & Tolk
  • Zack-Magazin , Koralle-Verlag (1973–81)
  • Volume 1 - The Trappers , Verlag Jurgeit, Krismann & Nobst (2006)
  • Volume 2 - The white reindeer , Verlag Jurgeit, Krismann & Nobst (2007)
  • Album 1 - The Reindeer Robbers , Verlag Jurgeit, Krismann & Nobst (2005)
  • Album 2 - The Great March , Edition comics-etc., Verlag becker-illustrators (2009), ISBN 9783941694064
  • Album 3 - Wettlauf mit dem Tode , Edition comics-etc., Verlag becker-illustrators (2013), ISBN 9783941694101
• Hitler
  • Volume 1 - The seizure of power , Carlsen Verlag (1989), ISBN 3-551-02826-5
  • Volume 2 - The Genocide , Carlsen Verlag (1989), ISBN 3-551-02830-3

Web links

• Review of the current Turi & Tolk publication