Felix Mussil

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Detail of the grave of Felix Mussil in the Frankfurt main cemetery

Felix Mussil (born January 9, 1921 in Berlin ; † February 8, 2013 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German cartoonist and worked for the Frankfurter Rundschau for 46 years .

Life

Mussil graduated from high school in Berlin in 1939 and then began studying architecture at the TH Berlin (now the Technical University of Berlin ). In 1941 Mussil was drafted into the Wehrmacht , in 1945 he returned from a Soviet captivity. In Hanover he started selling caricatures to local daily and weekly newspapers as a freelancer in 1948.

According to an internal newspaper legend, Mussil drove to Frankfurt am Main in 1955 with nothing but ten caricatures under his arm and without a return ticket and presented his drawings to the editor of the newly created Frankfurter Rundschau, Karl Gerold , who immediately hired him. His caricatures always appeared on the front page of the newspaper. Mussil worked in his own atelier on the roof of the Rundschau building , which he called “Kabäuschen”, away from the editorial staff and other offices .

He worked according to the motto:

“Funny but not scornful, polemical but not dogmatic, apt but not at any cost. Always the pen in the ink, but never in the poison. "

- Felix Mussil

He remained loyal to the Frankfurter Rundschau for almost half a century and only retired late in 2002 at the age of 81. On his eightieth birthday, the Frankfurt Museum of Comic Art organized an exhibition of some of his works in the Historical Museum . All of the original drawings since the late 1960s - several thousand works - were given to the museum by Mussil in 2003. Most recently he lived in the “Dichterviertel” of Frankfurt.

Books

From 1986 onwards, edited volumes of his caricatures were published as a book:

  • Annual Books (12) Political Caricatures 1986-2001 , Nest Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main

In addition, his works were part of numerous compilations:

  • Anthologies (7) caricatures from 1990–1998 , compiled by Klaus Bresser .

Awards

literature

  • Pointed. In the caricaturists' workshop. Photographs and interviews , Knesebeck, Munich 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felix Mussil mitspitzerfeder.de (German price for the political cartoon) from February 13, 2015
  2. ^ Goethe badge for the political cartoonist Felix Mussil Feuilleton Frankfurt, Erhard Metz from February 13, 2012
  3. ^ The draftsman from the roof ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Frankfurter Rundschau from July 15, 2005
  4. ↑ Felix Mussil mitspitzerfeder.de (German price for the political cartoon) from February 13, 2015
  5. ^ Museum honors for cartoonist Felix Mussil Der Standard from July 23, 2003
  6. ↑ 12 edited volumes by Felix Mussil catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Mussil, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2013
Place of death Frankfurt am Main