Fritz Behrendt

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Behrendt and Claus von Amsberg ( Het Parool , 1973)

Fritz Alfred Behrendt (born February 17, 1925 in Berlin ; † December 4, 2008 in Amsterdam ) was an internationally known German-Dutch newspaper cartoonist .

Life

In 1937, when he was twelve , Behrendt emigrated to the Netherlands with his parents. Because he took part in the resistance against the German occupiers, the SS arrested him in 1945. However, he got away with his life because the German occupiers who had fled Amsterdam could no longer carry out the sentence shortly before the end of the Second World War.

After the end of the war he was one of the founders of a left-wing Dutch youth association. In 1947 he went to Yugoslavia to head an international youth brigade to help rebuild the country. Two years later he went to East Berlin at the invitation of the then FDJ leader Erich Honecker and worked there in the Central Council as a consultant for visual advertising . He drew a. a. a draft for the state coat of arms of the GDR , from which essential elements were adopted in the final form of the GDR coat of arms in 1955. A late satisfaction, because in December 1949 Behrendt was arrested as an alleged Titoist who wanted to destabilize the GDR and had to go through six months of solitary confinement. Under pressure from the Dutch government, he was released in the early summer of 1950. After his release he lived and worked in Amsterdam. From 1958 to 1964 he was an "Editorial Cartoonist" for the NY Herald Tribune. From 1962 to 1997 he was a permanent employee of the Swiss “ Weltwoche ”. In 1959 he finally switched to the Austrian “ Kronen Zeitung ” and from 1972 also drew for the FAZ .

Fritz Behrendt died in December 2008 at the age of 83 in Amsterdam.

Work

His work has appeared in many renowned international daily newspapers over the years. In Germany it was the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Der Tagesspiegel in Berlin. In the US it was the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times . In other European capitals it was Svenska Dagbladet in Stockholm, Neue Kronen Zeitung in Vienna and Berlingske Tidende in Copenhagen. He also supplied TIME Magazine in New York, Spiegel in Hamburg, Die Weltwoche in Zurich, the satirical magazine Punch in London, Ma'ariv in Tel Aviv and De Telegraaf in Amsterdam.

Over the years he has published numerous books with his drawings. It was exhibited for the first time in 1980, at that time as part of a group exhibition of 5 caricaturists from the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover. At the turn of the year 2001 he was honored with a three-month solo exhibition in Bonn's House of History . Shortly before, he had received the Gotha Karikade Prize , one of the most important prizes for cartoonists in Germany.

In 2002, the Contemporary History Forum Leipzig curated a traveling exhibition entitled A Feather for Freedom: Drawings and Caricatures 1950–2000 . After Leipzig, this could be seen in Berlin, Marburg and many other cities. With a total of over 250 drawings from six decades, it offered a broad exhibition of the artist's work.

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

  • Fritz Behrendt: A European draftsman . Autobiography. Ibera, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85052-211-3 , p. 336.
  • A pen for freedom: drawings and caricatures 1950–2000 . DVA, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-421-05347-2 , p. 302.
  • Gest (r) ichelt! Political cartoons at their best . Verlaganstalt Handwerk, Düsseldorf 1998, p. 167.
  • Ulrich Schnakenberg (Hrsg.): Helmut Schmidt in caricatures: A visual history of the chancellorship . Caricatures by Fritz Behrendt, Schwalbach / Ts. 2015, ISBN 978-3-7344-0221-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The GDR on the WWW ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ddr-im-www.de
  2. Tagesschau : Caricaturist Fritz Behrendt dies ( memento from December 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) from December 5, 2008.
  3. Text on the exhibition in the House of History 2000/2001 ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hdg.de
  4. ^ A pen for freedom (August 9 to September 16, 2007 in the University Library of Marburg)
  5. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)