Hartmut Becker (publisher)

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Hartmut Becker at the 2019 Munich Comic Festival

Hartmut Becker (born December 4, 1949 in Dormagen ) is a publisher and agent for advertising artists. He lives and works in Hamburg.

Life

Hartmut Becker grew up in Dormagen, where his father Dietrich Becker managed the Pfeifer & Langen branch . After graduating from the Godesberger Pädagogium Otto Kühne School and a two-year study in Belgium it rose in 1974 in the journal Comixene of Andreas C. Knigge and Thilo Rex. In cooperation with Manfred Reinhardt, Becker founded the Cologne Comic Exchange in 1976. After he had moved from Cologne to Hanover, he founded the publishing house Edition Becker & Knigge with Andreas C. Knigge in 1979 . After the end of Comixene in 1981 and the bankruptcy of the publishing house in 1982, Hartmut Becker and Paul Derouet founded the Becker-Derouet agency in 1983 , which was dedicated to the representation of draftsmen (including Matthias Schultheiss ). In 1986 the company moved to Hamburg. After ten years of working together, Hartmut Becker and Paul Derouet parted ways professionally.

Hartmut Becker founded becker illustrators! , an agency for advertising artists. She represents u. a. Uwe de Witt, Marco Barrios, Ertugrul Edirne, Timo Wuerz and, since 2007, Hansrudi Wäscher , who received the prize for his life's work at the 2008 international comics salon in Erlangen. In 2004 Hartmut Becker and Bernd Mahler took over the organization of the North German Comic Exchange in Hamburg for three years . At the beginning of 2009 he founded the publishing house Comics etc. with Etsche Hoffmann-Mahler and Detlef Lorenz - Becker und Partner , which publishes, among other things, the stories of Hansrudi Wäscher.

In the 1980s, Hartmut Becker wrote numerous articles for the strip mirror , the speech bubble and other comic magazines . In addition, there were translations for Carlsen Verlag ( Spirou and Fantasio ), Casterman Germany ( Alix ), Egmont Ehapa Verlag ( Die Meta-Barone ), Kult Editions , Splitter Verlag ( Mick Tanguy ) and others. a.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rp.online: Sugar factory decisively shaped. Dr. Dietrich Becker died at the age of 93 (accessed August 15, 2017)
  2. ↑ Hartmut Becker in an interview with ICOM: "Still having fun with the comic" (accessed on August 15, 2017)

Works

As an author

  • Hartmut Becker and Achim Schnurrer: The children of the "Flying Robert". On the archeology of the German tradition of picture history . Edition Becker, Hannover 1979, ISBN 3-88464-011-9 (catalog for the exhibition of the same name, Kölnischer Kunstverein , May 18 to June 3, 1979).

As editor

  • Detlef Lorenz: Tibor . A legend in Africa . Edition Comics-etc, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-941694-04-0 .
  • Detlef Lorenz: Hansrudi washer. A phenomenon of its time . Heider Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-87314-432-3 .
  • Dieter Kalenbach: The great march Turi and Tolk ; Vol. 2). Edition Comics-etc, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-941694-06-4
  • Andreas C. Knigge: Almighty - Hansrudi Wäscher - pioneer of German comics . Edition Comics-etc, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-941694-11-8
  • 60 years of Sigurd

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personal data
SURNAME Becker, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comic publisher and agent for advertising artists
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Dormagen