Ferdinand Barlog

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Ferdinand Barlog (born October 14, 1895 in Berlin , † July 6, 1955 in Columbia , South Carolina , USA ; actually Ladislaus Barlog , according to other sources Wladislaus Barlog ) was a German caricaturist, comic artist and author.

Life

Barlog, according to Andreas C. Knigge "next to eoplauen the most popular German comic artist of the time before World War II", grew up as the youngest of three children of a master shoemaker in the so-called Berlin newspaper district and attended after ten school years, some of which he attended the Askanisches Gymnasium spent in Berlin from 1912 to 1915 the arts and crafts school. At the age of 16 he made a name for himself as a boxing and soccer cartoonist, whose hobbies were sports. In addition, he hired himself as a theater actor and postal assistant.

As a voluntary participant in the First World War , he was taken prisoner by Russia in 1916 and was used in a mine until 1918. After the end of the war and his release from captivity, Barlog became a freelancer for the Ullstein publishing house after drawing for the Sunday supplement of the Berliner Zeitung and Paul Simmel . He later worked for the magazines Uhu and Der hehre Fridolin . In the latter, he took over the Laatsch and Bommel series from Simmel, as well as Professor Pechmann , in which the title character with her various bizarre inventions caused more harm than good. The final verse usually ended with “ Nu blech mann. Here's the bill, dear Pechmann ”. His most popular strip - based on sales figures - was Die 5 Schreckensteiner for the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung . A book edition of these stories published in 1940, in which five members of an ancestral gallery step out of their picture frame at the witching hour and do mischief, reached a total circulation of 3.5 million copies. In contrast to the rather apolitical Schreckensteiners, according to Andreas C. Knigge, the volumes of caricatures Soldiers ' Life , Funny Soldiers' Primers and We at Home are to be classified as " glorifying war ".

After the end of World War II , Barlog did not manage to build on his earlier popularity. For example, in 1950 the “no words” strip Pascha Bumsti for the illustrated magazine Quick was discontinued after a total of 13 episodes. In 1953 he emigrated to the United States, where his daughter lived with her family. He died two years later.

Works

  • Soldier life , 1937
  • Funny soldiers' primer , Deutscher Verlag Berlin, 1938
  • We in the home , Zeitgeschichte Verlag Berlin, 1940
  • The 5 Schreckensteiner , Deutscher Verlag Berlin , 1940
  • New nonsense from Münchhausen , 1941
  • Troubled Peter. After the original version, redrawn by Barlog , Pädagogische Verlagsgemeinschaft Ostpreußen. Koenigsberg 1941

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eckart Sackmann: Ferdinand Barlog . In: RRAAH! News from the comic scene . No. 57, December 2001, ISSN  0933-601X , p. 36.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Helmut Kronthaler: Barlog . In: Eckart Sackmann (Ed.): Deutsche Comicforschung 2008 . Comicplus, Hildesheim 2007, ISBN 3-89474-177-5 , p. 75. (PDF; 276 kB)
  3. ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 80.
  4. ^ Eckart Sackmann: Ferdinand Barlog . In: RRAAH! News from the comic scene . No. 57, December 2001, ISSN  0933-601X , p. 37.
personal data
SURNAME Barlog, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barlog, Ladislaus (real name); Barlog, Vladislaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartoonist, comic artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1955
Place of death Columbia , South Carolina