Hans Fischerkoesen

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Hans Fischerkoesen (* May 18, 1896 as Hans Fischer in Kösen ; † April 23, 1973 in Mehlem ) was a German cartoon and advertising filmmaker. Based on his hometown, he used part of the city name for his stage name.

Life

Fischerkoesen has been active in animation film since 1919. In the 1920s he went to Berlin and worked for Ufa for several years. In his own company in Potsdam he produced three well-known short films from 1942 to 1944: Weathered Melodie, The Snowman and The Stupid Goose. After a year and a half in Soviet imprisonment, he moved to the West and became one of the leading producers of advertising films in the young Federal Republic.

One of the most famous characters is Uncle Otto of the Hessian Broadcasting Corporation . He is often seen as the German equivalent of Walt Disney . The graphic and drawing team of Fischerkoesens included the painter and caricaturist André Osterritter .

During the Second World War , Hans Fischerkoesen made educational films for the Wehrmacht . Because of this, his studio and villa in Potsdam were confiscated after the war. After 1948 he founded the new Fischerkoesen Studios in Mehlem near Bonn. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Fischerkoesen Studios produced several thousand animated advertising and commissioned films. The studios were continued by Fischerkoesen's son and existed until 2000.

Filmography

  • 1919: The Hole in the West (first long cartoon produced in Germany, lost)
  • 1921: Bummelpetrus (advertising film for shoes)
  • 1924: The penny has to bring it
  • 1926: The story of the chocolate casper
  • 1926: On a ski tour
  • 1926: the arm
  • 1929: The furnished gentleman
  • 1933: smoke and mirrors
  • 1935: The Blue Wonder (advertising film for cigarettes)
  • 1937: Two minutes of importance
  • 1943: The Weathered Melody
  • 1944: The snowman
  • 1945: The stupid little goose
  • 1952: Die Landpartie (advertising film for Coca-Cola)
  • 1955: Through night to the light (commercial for Underberg)

literature

  • Hans Fischerkoesen, Rudolf Bär (drawings), Eva Klingberg (text): Sehpferdchens lively adventures . Fischerkoesen TV commercial, Bad Godesberg-Mehlem 1962.
  • Joachim Kellner (Ed.): The best cinema spots of the 50s. Advertising worlds in animation. Hans Fischerkoesen on his 100th birthday . German Advertising Museum , Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-928710-38-9 .
  • German Institute for Animated Film eV (Ed.): Traumschmelze. The German animation film 1930–1950. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-95498-032-1 . (German English)
  • Fabian Tietke: About lifting your sleepyhead. The West German animation film from 1945 to 1963. In: Claudia Dillmann, Olaf Möller (Hrsg.): Beloved and repressed. The cinema of the young Federal Republic from 1949 to 1963. Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-88799-089-3 , pp. 78–87.
  • Jennifer Lynde Barker: There and Here. Hans Fischerkoesen in the 1950s. In: Claudia Dillmann, Olaf Möller (Ed.): Beloved and repressed. The cinema of the young Federal Republic from 1949 to 1963. Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-88799-089-3 , pp. 380–385.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Giesen, JP Storm: Animation Under the Swastika: A History of Trickfilm in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 . McFarland & Company Publishers, Jefferson (North Carolina) 2012, ISBN 978-0-7864-4640-7 .
  2. ↑ a b Fischerkoesen: Minnesang on branded articles. In: Der Spiegel . 35/1956, August 29, 1956, pp. 34-40 , accessed May 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Oliver Klatt: Animated film pioneer Hans Fischerkoesen: Hitler's Disney. In: Spiegel Online . April 25, 2013, accessed May 21, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Fischerkoesen: The blue miracle. (Video on Youtube, 2:32 minutes) 1935, accessed on May 21, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Fischerkoesen: The land part. (Video on Youtube, 2:40 minutes) 1952, accessed on May 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Fischerkoesen, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Hans (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartoon and advertising filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kosen , Saxony-Anhalt
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1973
Place of death Mehlem , now Bad Godesberg