Georges Wolinski

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Georges Wolinski (2011)

Georges Wolinski (born June 28, 1934 in Tunis ; † January 7, 2015 in Paris ) was a French cartoonist . He combined partly erotic, often pornographic images and left-wing to radical left-wing politics. He was murdered in the terrorist attack on the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo magazine .

Life

The son of Siegfried Wolinski from Poland and Lola Bembaron from Tunisia, who were both Jews , came to France in 1946. After studying architecture in Paris, Wolinski began to draw comic strips for the satirical magazine Hara-Kiri in 1960 . From 1968 he also worked for the satirical magazine L'Enragé and from 1970 for Actuel . As editor-in-chief of Charlie Mensuel magazine from 1971 onwards he tried to include international comics and, in addition to Krazy Kat and Popeye , was also able to publish comics by Guido Bruzzelli and José Antonio Muñoz . From 1977 he also regularly drew cartoons for the daily newspaper L'Humanité . His works were also printed in France Soir and Charlie Hebdo , Hara-Kiri's weekly successor . These included Monsieur , in particular , a series of short comic strips in which two French people - a conservative “know-it-all” and his counterpart, an opportunistic cue-maker - that Wolinski outlined with just a few strokes but a lot of text, discuss current political and social issues to chat.

Grave of Georges Wolinski in the Montparnasse cemetery

His best-known work is the Paulette series , which he developed as an author from 1971 with the draftsman Georges Pichard . The individual episodes first appeared in Charlie Mensuel and were later published in albums. The title hero is a young heiress who is raped, humiliated and tortured in her adventures. Wolinski's stories mix literary genres and locations; they use patterns and stereotypes from trivial literature that are exaggerated and ironicized.

Wolinski received the Grand Prix de la Ville d'Angoulême in 2005 at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême . On January 7, 2015, he was shot dead in the terrorist attack on the editorial staff of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Wolinski was buried in the Montparnasse cemetery.

In 2016 an asteroid was named after him: (293499) Wolinski .

Works

  • Ils ne pensent qu'à ça , 1967 (German I only think of one thing )
  • Paulette , drawn by Pichard , 1971
  • Les Français me font rire , 1975
  • Cactus Joe: Et autres histoires , 1977
  • Lettre ouverte à ma femme , 1978 (German treasure, that's a strong piece )
  • J'étais un sale phallocrate , 1979 (German I was a bad phallocrate )
  • Mon corps est à elles , 1979 (German ladies, my body is yours! )
  • N'importe quoi: Dessins inconnus, 1948-78 , 1979
  • Pensées , 1982
  • Junior , 1983 (German Che - The Legacy of the Lost Revolt )
  • Les femmes sont des hommes comme les autres , 2009
  • Wolinski: 50 ans de dessins , 2012
  • Vive la France! , 2013
  • Le village des femmes , 2014
  • Mes années 70 , 2015

literature

  • Maryse Wolinski : Chérie, je vais à Charlie . Seuil, 2016
    • Maryse Wolinski: Honey, I'm going to Charlie . Translation Dieter Hornig, Katrin Thomaneck. Salzburg: Residence, 2017

Web links

Commons : Georges Wolinski  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief portrait of Georges Wolinksi on comic.de ( memento of September 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 7, 2007
  2. ^ Assassination à "Charlie Hebdo": les dessinateurs Charb, Tignous et Wolinski sont morts
  3. ↑ Formative cartoonist is dead fr.de January 8, 2015
  4. ↑ Charlie Hebdo. Draftsman Georges Wolinski among the victims , Jüdische Allgemeine, January 7, 2015
  5. ^ Charlie Hebdo Deaths , USA Today, Jan. 7, 2015
  6. ^ Jewish cartoonist among the fatalities , tachles , January 8, 2015.
  7. ↑ Thierry Groensteen (Ed.): Asterix, Barbarella & Co. History of the comic in the French-speaking area . Somogy Editions D'Art, Paris 2000, p. 170 f.
  8. ↑ Reinhold Wolff : Images of women - men's dreams. In: Comixene 22 , 1979 p. 26.
  9. ↑ Assassination à "Charlie Hebdo": les dessinateurs Charb, Tignous et Wolinski sont morts - OZAP ( fr ) . Accessed January 15, 2015.
  10. ↑ The satire lives on in his coffin , January 15, 2015, Bild.de
personal data
SURNAME Wolinski, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French comic artist and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2015
Place of death Paris