Hans Firzlaff

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Hans Firzlaff (born March 29, 1921 in Kolberg ; † March 1, 2012 in Hanover ) was a German writer , editor and publisher . As a graphic artist and press draftsman , the artist and self-taught created political caricatures , joke drawings, illustrations and critical graphics on various topics. In addition, Firzlaff is known as the "rediscoverer of the boxer Johann 'Rukelie' Trollmann ".

Life

Hans Firzlaff was born at the beginning of the Weimar Republic in 1921 in East Pomerania . In his youth he went boxing and saw Rukeli Trollmann, who lives in Hanover, as his idol.

Together with Reinhard Schamuhn on April 8, 1967, and since 1972 with Mike Gehrke , Firzlaff was one of the founders of the old town flea market in Hanover.

In Hanover, Firzlaff published the satirical newspaper Niespulver from around the beginning of the 1968 movement from 1968 to 1983 . He was also the publisher of Satire Verlag .

Firzlaff was friends with Grethe Jürgens and Erich Wegner , both painters of the New Objectivity , who after the suppression during the time of National Socialism only came into the public eye again as artists with the beginning of the student movement .

In addition to sending his own works to exhibitions at home and abroad, Hans Firzlaff also took part in various campaigns in Hanover.

Stumbling blocks for Johann "Rukelie" Trollmann and his brother Heinrich in Johann-Trollmann-Weg in the old town of Hanover

Firzlaff is considered to be the "rediscoverer of the boxer Johann 'Rukelie' Trollmann ", the German light heavyweight champion who was slain by the Nazis in the Neuengamme concentration camp in 1944 as a persecuted and deported Sinto . Hans Firzlaff had been researching Trollmann since the 1960s, but was initially repeatedly rejected by the family's survivors.

In 1979 Firzlaff had an apartment and studio at Fuldaer Wende 79 in the Hanover district of Leinhausen . Later lived Firzlaff in the 1980s in an apartment in the district sticks of Hanover, where he was the first chairman of the in Isernhagen seated Association Rukeli Trollmann eV , visited Alfonso Ramos Farina Diekmann again to reclamation.

At the end of the 20th century, Firzlaff lived again in the Leinhausen district, in 1998 at Geestemünder Weg 17 . Firzlaff still made drawings in retirement, for example a drawing for a "reading book" published in 2007 about the neighboring district of Herrenhausen with the figures Max and Moritz originally created by Wilhelm Busch , which were presented in an open "commissary bread" produced by Hanomag in the 1920s. -Drive a car and hold up the banner "We like to live here too!"

In the fine arts , Firzlaff created not only photomontages , but also etchings with drypoint and as aquatint , as well as pieces with the techniques of the pen , the brush, ink and chalk.

Hans Firzlaff was buried on March 9, 2012 in the Stöcken city cemetery.

Exhibitions

In addition to exhibitions in Warsaw and Moscow , the artist sent for example

Fonts (selection)

Periodicals

  • Hans Firzlaff (Red.): Sneezing powder. Combined with satire, Steintor, Hannover extra. Hanover, 4.1971 - 18.1985. ISSN  0720-6542
  • Hanover extra. Flea Market Journal. Firzlaff, Hanover-Herrenhausen 1973–1975. ISSN  0720-6569
  • Hanover extra. Serious and cheerful (= The big series . Volume 1). Manuscript collection with texts by H. Freter a. a. and Hermann Löns , Hanover: Satire-Verlag, 1986

Non-fiction books and essays

  • Vineta . Pomeranian sport. Athletics , [Hannover]: Satire-Verlag, 1997
  • Max Schmeling and Gut Ponickel . A lot still connects the 91-year-old with the landscape around Rummelsburg. In: The Pommersche Zeitung. For a free Pomerania in a united Germany and a united Europe. Pommerscher Zentralverband, ZDB-ID, Lübeck-Travemünde 5160613, year 47/1997, issue 9, p. 11.
  • Hans Firzlaff: Knock-out. The life of the German Sinti boxer Rukelie Trollmann from Hanover's old town. Secondary title: Under a tyranny - life and death of a boxer from Hanover's old town - Johann Wilhelm (called Rukelie) Trollmann (1907–1943). 2nd Edition. Satire-Verlag, Hanover 1998, ISBN 3-923127-23-6 .

Illustrations

Hans Firzlaff created illustrations for, among others

  • Martin Luther : D. Martin Luther's Small Catechism [Hans Firzlaff wrote the jewelry part], Bechauf, Bielefeld 1954.
  • Wolfgang Baranowsky : Under suspicion. One-act play (= The Steinklopfer series [the outsider] ). Steinklopfer-Verlag, Fürstenfeldbruck 1960.
  • Irene Kabanyi : The right women and the others ... (= texts on emancipation and relationships. Volume 1). Satire-Verlag, Hanover 1977.
  • Volkhard App : Departure. Poetry and prose. 2nd Edition. Offizin Verlag, Hannover 1981.
  • Dietrich Kittner : The collected Kittner texts ... Volume 3: Crisis staff free! Laughers, songs, sorrow articles (= Fischerhude texts. Volume 3). Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1979, ISBN 3-88132-037-7 .

literature

  • Volkhard App: Hans Firzlaff. Not bypassing world history . In: Skull splitter: Hanover's city illustrated. R&T Verlag, Hanover 1980.
  • Dietrich Kittner: Skirmishes with the pen. Hans Firzlaff and his "sneeze powder". In: tendencies. 1981.
  • Eckart Spoo : Address at the opening of a Firzlaff exhibition. Volkshochschule Hannover, January 18, 1999. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . New episode 55, 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e o.V. : Firzlaff, Hans in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of March 6, 2012, last accessed on June 24, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b o.V. ; Rukeli's fate in the memories of Hans Firzlaff , announcement for the screening of Thorsten Fuchs' film in the House of Religion on May 23, 2013 on the Stadtkind magazine website . Hannovermagazin , last accessed on June 24, 2017.
  3. ^ Thomas Schwark : Flea Market. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover . P. 182.
  4. ↑ Ludwig Zerull (Red., Layout): Hanoverian painter of the new objectivity. An exhibition by the Lower Saxony Sparkassenstiftung with pictures from the collections of the Stadtsparkasse Hannover, Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung and the Sprengel Museum Hannover , richly illustrated accompanying booklet to the traveling exhibition 1991 at the University of Leipzig, the Stadtsparkasse Hannover, the Augusteum of the Landesmuseum Oldenburg, the Städtisches Museum Göttingen, the cultural history Museum Osnabrück and the Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg, Ed .: Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Hanover: Th. Schäfer Druckerei (printing), 1991, passim
  5. ↑ a b c d Elizabeth Schwiontek (Red.): KunstKonturen - artist profiles . History and present of the BBK Lower Saxony . Edited by the Association of Visual Artists for Lower Saxony, Hanover: BBK Lower Saxony, 1998, p. 321.
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Sinti. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover . P. 568.
  7. ↑ Compare the inscription on the stumbling block for Trollmann in Hanover
  8. ↑ Manuel Trollmann: personal thanks [undated], last accessed on June 24, 2017.
  9. ^ Directory of visual artists in Hanover , 1st edition 1. – 5. Thousand, ed. from the cultural office of the state capital Hanover, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1979, ISBN 978-3-87706-020-9 and ISBN 3-87706-020-X , p. 76
  10. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Fuldaer Wende , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 86
  11. ↑ Alfonso Ramos-Farina Diekmann: Thanks to Hans Firzlaff from the Rukeli-Trollmann eV association [undated, 2012], last accessed on June 24, 2017.
  12. ↑ a b Martin Stöber (Red.): Herrenhausen. A reading book , Hanover: ecrivir - die Textmacher, 2007, ISBN 978-3-938769-06-5 , pp. 52, 182.
  13. ^ Obituary notice for Hans Firzlaff , with a drawing by the artist in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from March 3, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Firzlaff, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, editor, publisher, graphic artist, press illustrator, illustrator and action artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolberg
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 2012
Place of death Hanover