Egon von Tresckow

Egon von Tresckow (born February 27, 1907 in Montigny near Metz , † March 25, 1952 in Kassel ; pseudonym: Tres. ) Was a German animator , illustrator , comic artist and caricaturist .

Life

Born as the son of German parents in the town of Montigny near Metz , von Tresckow grew up in Bielwiese near Steinau in Lower Silesia . After studying music, he worked in various professions before he, discovered and supported by Paul Simmel , who had recognized Tresckow's talent, started working as a press illustrator in Berlin in 1927. From 1930 von Tresckow worked as an animator at UFA , which he left as artistic director in 1943 to work on the films of Hans Fischerkoesen . After the war von Tresckow moved to Kassel and drew for the Hessische Nachrichten . He achieved greater fame with Tres. signed, through his so-called "fairy tale book films". These were picture strips in which well-known fairy tales were implemented in drawings. In addition to the Hessische Nachrichten , these “fairy tale book films” appeared in around 15 other daily newspapers from all over Germany, were marketed internationally and also published in book form.

Works

• The fairy tale of someone who set out to learn to fear , Hessische Druck- und Verlags-Anstalt, Kassel 1950
• Von Fischer and his wife , Hessische Druck- und Verlags-Anstalt, Kassel 1950
• The Ugly Young Duckling and How Father and Son Bought a Donkey , Hessische Druck- und Verlags-Anstalt, Kassel 1952

literature

• Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , pp. 437-438
• Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff: Comics - History of a Popular Form of Literature in Germany since 1945 . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel 1990, ISBN 3-407-56521-6 , pp. 38–39

Web links

• Literature by and about Egon von Tresckow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Egon von Tresckow on comicguide.de