Erich Godal

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Erich Godal , also Eric Godal, pseudonym of Erich Goldbaum (born January 15, 1899 in Berlin ; died September 2, 1969 in Hamburg ) was a German draftsman, caricaturist and illustrator.

Life

Erich Goldbaum was the son of a senior bank employee. The father died in 1934, the mother fled Europe with the ship St. Louis in 1939 , but after going astray only got to Belgium and became a victim of the Holocaust . He attended high school in Berlin, studied painting, set design and sculpture at the Berlin-Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts with Rudolf Albert Becker-Heyer , Harold Bengen , Teo Otto and Ernst Stern . Godal began in 1919 as a poster draftsman and draftsman in the magazine Der Orchideengarten . In 1920 he published the portfolio Revolution in the "Cooperative for Proletarian Art" Berlin. He found employment as a press draftsman for court hearings and was a long-time graphic assistant for the Berliner 8 Uhr-Abendblatt . He also worked for the newsreel of Emelka , for Simplicissimus , The Action and owl . In the meantime he had a job as a set designer with Max Reinhardt and painted the decorations for the silent films Two Black Lanterns (1921) and Elixirs of the Devil (1922) by Adolf Abter . He designed election posters for the SPD . In 1927 he was involved with illustrations for Eugen Szatmaris Berliner “ What is not in Baedeker ”. Godal was friends with the composer Werner Richard Heymann and the writer Walter Mehring .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he fled to Prague on February 26, 1933 . There he drew for various émigré magazines such as Prager Mittag , Deutsche Freiheit im Saarland , and for the emigrated editorial offices of Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung and Simpl . He took part in the anti-fascist exhibition in the Manés Gallery in Prague (SVU Mánes). In 1935 he emigrated to the USA, in 1936 he was expatriated from the German Reich . In New York City he founded the exile newspaper Star with Franz Höllering , delivered political cartoons for the short-lived start-up Ken and worked on the Jewish exile newspaper Aufbau . He was given a teaching position at the New School of Social Research , New York. In the USA he illustrated children's books by Roselle Ross .

Because of McCarthyism he returned to Germany in 1954 and wrote for Springer press publications : Welt am Sonntag , the Hamburger Abendblatt and the Illustrierte Constanze . He received orders for book illustrations.

His autobiography No Dishwasher Talent was published posthumously .

Fonts / book illustrations (selection)

  • Kurt Juhn: The witch hammer: the medieval history of the torture of the medicus Johann Weyer. 8 orig. Lithograph v. Erich Godal. Flesch, Prague 1934.
  • Jews, Christians, Gentiles in the III. Rich. Prague: Simpl-Verlag, 1935.
  • Eric Godal: Spotty, the flying dog. New York: Veritas Press. 1945.
  • Claire Lee Purdy: Gilbert and Sullivan, masters of mirth and melody. Ill. Eric Godal. Messner, New York 1949.
  • Dirks Paulun : St. Pauli. Drawings Eric Godal. Chr. Wolff, Flensburg 1956.
  • Rolf Italiaander : Teenagers. Sign. by Eric Godal. With contributions from 26 authors. Broschek, Hamburg 1958.
  • No talent for washing dishes: a turbulent life illustrated accordingly. Hoffmann et al. Campe, Hamburg 1969.

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  1. ↑ International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945. Volume II, No. 1, 1983, p. 383 f.
personal data
SURNAME Godal, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Godal, Eric; Goldbaum, Erich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, caricaturist, illustrator and emigrant
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1969
Place of death Hamburg