Hans Joachim Stenzel

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Hans Joachim Stenzel (born October 15, 1923 in Louisville (Kentucky) , USA ; † June 23, 1999 in Berlin ) was a German draftsman and caricaturist . Alongside Oskar , Ole Jensen , Arne Leihberg and Aribert Ane Neßlinger, Stenzel was one of the most popular and distinguished post-war cartoonists in West Berlin .

Life

Hans Joachim Stenzel was born in Louisville, Kentucky (USA), where his parents - born in Berlin - had emigrated to escape the inflation in Germany in 1923. However, the family returned to Germany in 1926. Stenzel started school in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1930 - coincidentally with Erich Schmitt , who later achieved caricaturist fame in East Berlin . In 1943, Stenzel did a traineeship as an animated cartoonist before he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a medic in June . He experienced the end of the war in 1945 as a paramedic and began his career as a draftsman in American captivity. In 1948 he first worked as a draftsman for Junge Welt in East Berlin.

In 1959 Stenzel's career began with the Berliner Morgenpost , where he quickly gained great popularity. The zel his surname became the signature on the cartoons; later he signed with zelli - as he was called by friends and colleagues.

The grave of Hans Joachim Stenzel in the Berlin-Dahlem cemetery

With a sharp pen he caricatured world politics and city life in West Berlin. His stick figures were Berliner types - often Steppkes - which current events snappy and with wit commented. During the 1968 student movement , his drawings became more aggressive. He portrayed the protesting students stereotypically as gross and sinister rioters .

Stenzel, who also published in the Bild newspaper , unabashedly and undifferentiated served the enemy image and the resentment of the readership of these two newspapers of the Springer group in West Berlin towards the student body. In retrospect, the publishing house takes a very critical view of some of the cartoons from this period. "Quite a few caricatures that appeared in the publisher's sheets at the time were defamatory," said an editor-in-chief of the publishing group in 2010.

Hans Joachim Stenzel died in Berlin in 1999 at the age of 75. His grave is in the Dahlem cemetery .

The actress Julia Biedermann is Stenzel's daughter.

Publications

  • Line by line cheerful , 170 years of humor in the Blätterwald, Ullstein Verlag Berlin o. J.
  • ... does not correspond to the seriousness of the situation! , Caricatures, FA Herbig Verlagbuchhandlung Berlin 1959

literature

  • Hans Joachim Stenzel - called zelli , ed .: Dietmar Otremba & the Hans Joachim Stenzel family, Berlin 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Caricaturist Stenzel has died . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , June 25, 1999
  2. ↑ ane • wassi • zelli - three of the Berlin cartoonists from May 12, 2006 to May 31, 2006 with their works in the Galeria KiK!
  3. ↑ The student leader in Hitler's pose . At: kontextwochenzeitung.de , February 25, 2015
  4. Jump up ↑ Springer's picture of the students, caricatures from the West Berlin Springer papers, 2nd half of 1967.
  5. ^ Karl-Heinz Hansen - With the Apollo 1969. At: mischalke04.wordpress.com , December 6, 2007
  6. ↑ Online Medienarchiv'68 Axel Springer Archived copy ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 573.
personal data
SURNAME Stenzel, Hans Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zelli (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Louisville, Kentucky , USA
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1999
Place of death Berlin