Harri Parschau
Harri Parschau (born December 15, 1923 in Berlin , † July 27, 2006 in Stolzenhagen ) was a German cartoonist .
life and work
Parschau initially worked in aircraft construction from 1938 to 1941 and as a blacksmith from 1947 to 1950. After taking drawing lessons at the adult education center and studying at the AS Skid press drawing school , he worked as a freelance caricaturist for the Berliner Zeitung , the Wochenpost and - over a period of around 15 years - for the New Germany from 1950 . From 1952 he was employed as a draftsman for the satirical magazine Frischer Wind . In this and the successor magazine Eulenspiegel , founded in 1954 , he had published around 8,800 drawings by the end of his collaboration in 1991. The Eulenspiegel phase alone accounts for 8,237 graphics; this makes him the most printed caricaturist in this magazine. In addition, Parschau's graphics, which are certified as having British humor, appeared in books by Eulenspiegel-Verlag . He has also illustrated children's books, for example by Edith Bergner , Anne Geelhaar and Peter Abraham .
Web links
- Literature by and about Harri Parschau in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary by the editors. In: Eulenspiegel , 52./60. Vol., No. 9/06, ISSN 0423-5975 , p. 65.
- ↑ a b www.cartooncommerz.de , accessed on June 7, 2012.
- ↑ a b c humorist Harri Parschau dead . In: Neues Deutschland , August 9, 2006.
- ↑ a b Eulenspiegel special edition. The years 1980–1989 . Berlin 2004, p. 209.
- ↑ G [erd] N [agel] : Harri Parschau for the sixtieth [poem]. In: Eulenspiegel , 30./38. Vol., No. 50/83, ISSN 0423-5975 , p. 6.
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SURNAME | Parschau, Harri |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cartoonist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1923 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 2006 |
Place of death | Stolzenhagen |