Dietwald Doblies
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Dietwald Doblies (born May 17, 1962 in Barsbüttel ) is a German illustrator . Since 1995 he has been drawing the Lurchi books for the shoe manufacturer Salamander .
Life
As a teenager, Dietwald Doblies had the desire to become a cartoonist . He learned to draw self-taught by drawing cartoon characters . His role models are above all the Disney cartoonists and Albert Uderzo , the creator of Asterix , as well as the old masters Albrecht Dürer . After finishing school, Doblies began working as a commercial artist and from 1983 worked as a freelancer for a Barsbüttler advertising agency. In addition, he occasionally took on smaller jobs for advertising illustrations. In 1986 he moved to Hamburg. From 1990 he switched entirely to the field of illustration and since then has mainly been creating comic-style drawings for advertising. For the chewing gum manufacturer Wrigley he draws the comics with the hero Dentiman, a man made of chewing gum who fights caries bacteria.
Work on Lurchi's adventures from 1995 to 1999
Doblies came into contact with Lurchi, the advertising figure for Salamander's children's shoes, as a child, but lost sight of the series of booklets drawn by Heinz Schubel shortly before Schubel stopped working on Lurchi. When Doblies became aware of Lurchi again much later, other draftsmen continued the series and had greatly changed the style. In 1992 Doblies decided to send an unsolicited application to draw the series, an offer that Salamander did not accept until three years later: In 1995, Doblies created his first Lurch booklet, series 115, Lurchi and the Magic Stones, together with the newly hired copywriter Günther Bentele . The collaboration lasted until episode 129.
Redesign of the Lurchi figures
As part of a new concept for the magazine series, Salamander commissioned Doblies 2000 with the revision of the characters Lurchi, Hopps, Mäusepiep, Piping, Igelmann and Unkerich. Doblies partly redressed the figures, partly he designed them from scratch and developed a different style for the series (pencil instead of brush drawings), which was withdrawn after 7 episodes. The booklets appeared in a different format and without rhymes, which is why Doblies now worked with new copywriters (Bernhard Lassahn and Peter Menningen). The concept was changed again in 2002. Salamander returned to the old magazine format. The newly designed figures have remained. Since episode 130, Doblies has continued to write the prose texts on Lurchi's adventures, with the exception of the 131st episode himself. In the meantime (as of January 2020) he has created 53 booklets and (additionally) seven Lurchi adventures in Pixi format.
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- Magazine Liebes-Land 10/2009
- Hamburger Morgenpost February 20, 2008, supplement "Blickpunkt Hamm"
- Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 276, 27./28. Nov 2004
- Girlfriend magazine 2/97
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Doblies, Dietwald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th May 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barsbüttel |