Greser & Lenz
Achim Greser (born May 20, 1961 in Lohr am Main ) and Heribert Lenz (born February 26, 1958 in Schweinfurt ) are a German cartoonist duo . You regularly draw for the Titanic , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Stern .
Become
Their common inclination towards the tradition of the New Frankfurt School prompted them to make drawings together while studying graphics in Würzburg . Since 1986 and 1988 they have been working as permanent members of the editorial team at the satirical magazine Titanic , among other things they created the figure of Genschman . They have been drawing regularly for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung since 1996 and for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung since it was founded, but they can also be found in the left-wing daily Junge Welt . Their motto is: Every war has its victims, the same goes for good jokes.
Both live and work in Aschaffenburg. For some time, advertisements appeared regularly in the Titanic under the heading Partner Titanic , pleading for the election of Heribert Lenz as mayor of the city of Aschaffenburg .
With their cartoon Üzrüms Alpenglück they caused a diplomatic scandal with Turkey in 2014.
Achim Greser is a member of the German Academy for Football Culture .
Awards
- 2018: German Caricature Award , “Winged Pencil” in gold
- 2004: German Caricature Award , “Winged Pencil” in gold
- 2001: Flashback 2000
Works
- (2000) Achim Greser: Der Führer Privat, Bittermann Verlag, ISBN 3-89320035-5 , ISBN 978-3-89320035-1 , 44 drawings
- (2004) Achim Greser, Heribert Lenz: Reading? That works for a year or two, then you're addicted, Bittermann Verlag, ISBN 3-89320080-0 , ISBN 978-3-89320080-1 .
- (2011) Greser & Lenz: Can Europe Still Be Saved? The Chronicle of the Year VII . Frankfurter Allgemeine Buchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-89981-263-3 .
literature
- Ursula Zeller , Frank-Thorsten Moll, Claudio Hills, Zeppelin Museum : Greser & Lenz. This is probably a joke! Catalog. Verlag Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-88423-468-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Achim Greser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Heribert Lenz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Greser & Lenz
- Collection of the Greser & Lenz caricatures at the FAZ
- Greser & Lenz: In a duet on the hunt for an acceptable joke ( memento from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), interview for the Goethe-Institut , August 2006
- FAZ from May 13, 2012 In conversation: Greser and Lenz “Existential Fears? We drink against it "
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the interview by Jürgen Roth : "Also a product. Hehe". Nothing works anymore in football, not even at 1. FC Nürnberg, in: Junge Welt, April 9, 2020.
- ↑ Achim Greser, Heribert Lenz: Erdogan's Intervention: Where Would We Get There? In: www.faz.net. November 4, 2014, accessed April 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Achim Greser - person. Retrieved on May 17, 2020 (German).