Franziska Becker (cartoonist)

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Franziska Becker (2009)

Franziska Becker (born July 10, 1949 in Mannheim ) is a German cartoonist .

biography

Franziska Becker was born into a liberal family as the daughter of a doctor and a housewife. As a child she was fascinated by painting. Her role models were artists such as Wilhelm Busch , Carl Barks , Walter Trier , Olaf Gulbransson , eoplauen , Jeanne Mammen and George Grosz . After graduating from high school in Mannheim and an apprenticeship as a medical-technical assistant , she studied at the art academy in Karlsruhe from 1972 to 1976 , with Markus Lüpertz , among others .

From 1973 Becker became involved in the feminist movement in Heidelberg, where she met Alice Schwarzer in 1975 . In 1977, her first cartoon appeared in the first issue of EMMA magazine . Her illustrations, caricatures and comics soon appeared in other magazines and newspapers such as Annabelle , Psychologie Heute , Titanic , Stern and the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . She has published 20 books since the 1980s. Most successful were the works Feminist everyday life , men , women and Feminax and Walkürax . In 1988 Becker published a love story in pictures with cartoonist Papan Back and forth . Best known are her satirical cartoons in the EMMA , in which she often depicts a clichéd upside-down world between men and women, examines the relationship between humans and animals and deals with cosmetic surgery and other topics from the spectrum of the magazine. In her caricatures she paints a predominantly critical picture of esotericism and religions. Becker's work includes cartoons as well as book illustrations and paintings.

In 1988 Becker received the Max and Moritz Prize for the best female comic artist. In 2010 the caricatura museum frankfurt showed an exhibition of her work comprising approx. 300 objects under the title Franziska Becker - Last Warning . In 1995 Becker and the illustrator Papan illustrated the cookbook Meine Rezepte by TV presenter Alfred Biolek , who ran the cookery program alfredissimo! From 1994 to 2007 . moderated. In 2012 she received the Göttinger Elch satirical award . In September 2013 she was awarded the Wilhelm Busch Prize in Stadthagen . In 2019 she was honored by the Journalists' Association with the Hedwig Dohm certificate for her life's work. This award sparked a debate among feminist authors and the media as to whether and to what extent Becker reproduced racist and Islamophobic stereotypes with some of her caricatures and cemented clichés about women who were supposedly inevitably oppressed wearing headscarves.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Franziska Becker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Alfred Biolek : My recipes . Cookbook by TV presenter Alfred Biolek, with photographs by Christian von Alvensleben , Verlag Zabert Sandmann (ZS) GmbH, Munich , 13th edition, 1995. 160 pages
  2. ^ Racism criticism of cartoons - Why the journalists' association honors Franziska Becker. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, June 25, 2019, accessed on July 19, 2019 .
  3. ^ Anne Fromm: Journalistinnenbund honors cartoonist: Dispute over headscarf cartoons . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 25, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed July 19, 2019]).
  4. Susan Vahabzadeh: "Of the Difficult Kind" . In: sueddeutsche.de . June 28, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 19, 2019]).
  5. Franziska Becker - “Somebody wants to prevent the award from being handed over to me”. Cicero, June 27, 2019, accessed July 19, 2019 .
  6. Hilal Sezgin : Wrong honor for headscarf clichés. taz.de, June 26, 2019
  7. Hedwig Dohm Prize winner 2019: Franziska Becker - Journalistinnenbund. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .