Ernst Maria Lang

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Ernst Maria Lang (born December 8, 1916 in Oberammergau ; † August 1, 2014 in Munich ) was an architect in Munich and from 1947 to 2003 caricaturist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Life

Lang grew up in Oberammergau, where his childhood was shaped by "impressions from the Passion Play, a bit of incense and a lot of singing". His father was the academic sculptor and passion play director Georg Johann Lang (1891–1968). One of his ancestors was the clergyman Joseph Alois Daisenberger (1799–1883), the author of the text of the world-famous Oberammergau Passion Play .

Signature of Ernst Maria Lang

After Lang had dealt with satirical drawings since he was twelve, a caricature in 1934 for "despising National Socialism" led to his exclusion from the Hitler Youth . In 1936 he passed his Abitur at the grammar school of the Benedictine monastery Ettal . He then did Reich labor service in the Thuringian Rhön and from October 1936 military service with the pioneers in Ingolstadt, which he finished as a reserve officer candidate. In 1938 he enrolled at the Technical University of Munich for architecture and was finally called up for military service, which he survived as a captain. The Second World War had "perforated his skin a few times", Lang later commented laconically.

After the end of the war he continued to study architecture at the Technical University of Munich and graduated in 1947 with a degree in engineering. From 1947 to 1949 he worked as an assistant at the Technical University of Munich. In 1947 Ernst Maria Lang became a political cartoonist for the liberal Süddeutsche Zeitung, which had been founded two years earlier as the first licensed Munich newspaper of the American zone of occupation . From 1949 to 1950 he also drew for the satirical magazine Der Simpl . Lang worked as a freelance architect in Munich from 1950. From November 1954, Lang became a caricaturist at Bavarian Television , which began broadcasting that same month. Until 1989 he drew v. a. for the show "Bayern Report". Between 1961 and 1981 he headed the vocational training center for construction and design in Munich. From 1965 to 1971, Lang was regional chairman of the Association of German Architects in Bavaria and from 1971 to 1991 he was president of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects , of which he had been honorary president since 1991. On September 29, 2003, the “Culture & Scene” section of br-online.de reported that readers of the Süddeutsche Zeitung would in future have to do without “the baroque signature 'L'”: “Ernst Maria Lang (86), since five decades of 'political draftsman' with the SZ and several years with the BR, drying up his pen. ”By then, Lang had published well over 4,000 caricatures in the Süddeutsche Zeitung: his first drawing was printed on November 27, 1947; September 2003 his last.

As an architect, he designed the Munich student city as the largest such settlement in the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as the large settlement Am Hasenbergl .

family

Ernst Maria Lang married Liselotte Waldvogel in 1941 († 1985). The marriage had five children: Petra (* 1941; † 1995), Michaela (* 1944), Florian (* 1946; † 2003) and the twins Barbara and Susanne (* 1948). Since 1986 he lived with Erika Helmbrecht.

Awards

Lang was honored with the Theodor Wolff Prize of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers in 1966 , the Schwabinger Art Prize in 1979 , the Bavarian Poet Thaler of the southern German literary association " Münchner Turmschreiber " in 1992 , the Ernst Hoferichter Prize of the City of Munich in 2001 and in May 2006 with the honorary award of the Association of Liberal Professions in Bavaria. He also received u. a. the Ludwig Thoma Medal of the City of Munich, the Wilhelm Hoegner Prize of the Bavarian parliamentary group of the SPD, the Bavarian State Medal for Economy , the Maximilian Order and the Bavarian Constitutional Medal in gold. On January 22nd, 2007 Lord Mayor Christian Ude presented him with the cultural honorary award of the City of Munich 2006 in the hall of the old town hall . Lang's drawings are part of the New Collection in Munich and are in the Pinakothek der Moderne , an honor that political cartoonists rarely receive.

Quotes

  • "And so I would like to give the Bavarian politicians the wish: Well get it." (Ernst Maria Lang on the political opponents Hans Ehard and Wilhelm Hoegner at the time of the SPD-led coalition of four)
  • “He just comes from the Bavarian democracy.” (Ernst Maria Lang on the Chancellor candidate Edmund Stoiber , 2002)
  • "Among us is - to my great joy - the doyen of German caricature" ( Wolfgang Thierse on Ernst Maria Lang)
  • “With your wide range of work you have left more than just traces. To put it in the language of architects, they are a dominant feature in our city. ”( Christian Ude in a letter of congratulations on Lang's 90th birthday)

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Buildings and designs

Cartoons

(in independent publications)

  • Political revolving stage. Caricatures from the Süddeutsche Zeitung 1947–1949. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1949 (37 sheets).
  • The dwarfs take full cover. Ballads from Bavarian television. Feder Verlag, Munich 1959 (69 pages).
  • Corsairs and corsets. Political cartoons. Feder Verlag, Munich 1960 (70 pages).
  • Germany, I have to let you. From the life of a Federal Chancellor. Feder Verlag, Munich 1963 (71 pages).
  • Satire plates (1960s): Rosenthal published thirteen plates with caricatures by Ernst Maria Lang in a limited art series of 5000 pieces each. Politicians, artists and entrepreneurs were caricatured: K. Adenauer, Th. Heuss, W.Scheel, W. Brandt, M. Dietrich, Hv Karajan, H. Schmidt, B. Kreisky, H. Kohl, Fr.-J. Strauss, H. Rühmann, Mao Tse Tung and Philipp Rosenthal .
  • Speculators. Drawn and sung about. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1967 (64 pages).
  • The drawn. 145 caricatures of notable politicians and their actions with short interviews and autographs. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-7991-5677-1 (174 pages).
  • Herbert Hess (Red.), Ironimus (preface): As long as the ink lasts. Disrespectful records of time and contemporaries. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7991-5897-9 (239 pages).
  • Seen through by Ernst Maria Lang ... and briefly drawn. Disrespectful about time & contemporaries. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7991-6128-7 (219 pages).
  • (with Eckart Hachfeld): Amadeus' world history. From Adam to Napoleon. Heyne, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-453-01887-7 (251 pages).
  • Heinz Burghart (Ed.): Bavarian derbleckt. Three illustrators on the air in the Bayern Report. (Ernst Maria Lang, Dieter Hanitzsch, Gerhard Joksch) Olzog, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7892-7268-X (111 pages).
  • Got under the pen with Ernst Maria Lang. Disrespectful records of time & contemporaries. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7991-6336-0 (159 pages).
  • Heinz Burghart (ed.): TV tips. Three illustrators on the air in the Bayern Report. (Ernst Maria Lang, Dieter Hanitzsch, Gerhard Joksch) TR-Verlagsunion / Olzog, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7892-7295-7 (112 pages).
  • Hans Wichmann (ed.): Bavaria and events in the world. Caricatures from the Süddeutsche Zeitung. (with contributions by Hans Heigert and Hellmuth Karasek ; in collaboration with the Neue Sammlung, Staatliches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Munich) Birkhäuser, Basel a. a. 1990, ISBN 3-7643-2520-8 (300 pages).
  • Always on the big ones. Caricatures of an inconvenient. (with an essay by Hellmuth Karasek) Hugendubel, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-88034-912-6 (174 pages).
  • That's it - was that it? Memories. Paperback edition. Piper, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-24294-4 (519 pages).

Web links

Commons : Ernst Maria Lang  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Maria Lang died at the age of 97 ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b br.de , br-online.de, September 29, 2003
  3. ^ Kurt Kister : Caricaturist Ernst Maria Lang - Bavarian Century Man. Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 4, 2014, accessed on August 10, 2014 (obituary by the editor-in-chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, which is published in Munich).
  4. ↑ br.de
  5. ↑ EM Lang, architect and political draftsman, thanks his guardian angel. ( Memento from July 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Association of Freelance Professions in Bavaria, press release, May 12, 2006.
  6. ↑ Ernst Maria Lang awarded the City of Munich's Cultural Prize of Honor . Press release from the City of Munich, January 22, 2007.
  7. ↑ [50 Years of Evening Show] , br-online, de, November 8, 2004
  8. ↑ Sabine Rückert: The all-knowing want . In: Die Zeit , No. 38/2002
  9. ↑ Address by the President of the Bundestag ( memento of August 26, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) on the occasion of the opening of the caricature exhibition "On land, on water and in the air - The Federal Presidents 1949 to 1999" on June 29, 1999 in Bonn
  10. ↑ For the 90th there is the Munich Culture Prize . stern / dpa , December 8, 2006
  11. ↑ Satire plate. porzellankompass.de
personal data
SURNAME Lang, Ernst Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberammergau
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 2014
Place of death Munich