Heiko Sakurai

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Heiko Sakurai (born April 13, 1971 in Recklinghausen ) is a political cartoonist in Germany .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1990 at Petrinum in Recklinghausen , he completed his community service . During this time, Heiko Sakurai, who has a Japanese father, began drawing caricatures for various local editorial offices of the " Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung " WAZ (Essen).

From 1992 to 1998 he studied German, history and politics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . Here he also held a teaching position for political caricature in 2006/2007. In summer 2008 Heiko Sakurai held a caricature workshop in Tirana for students from Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia.

In 2009, Heiko Sakurai and the author Miriam Hollstein published the political comic "Miss Tschörmänie", the first comic about Chancellor Angela Merkel .

Heiko Sakurai lives and works in Cologne .

Act

Caricatures in print media

  • 1998–2000: caricatures for the " Recklinghäuser Zeitung "
  • 1999–2000: Caricatures in cooperation with the press agency " Agence France-Presse " AFP (Berlin)
  • since 2000: cartoonist for the "Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" WAZ (Essen)
  • since 2000: caricatures, cartoons and illustrations for various journals and magazines (e.g. until 2005 cartoon series "Heikos Schulschau" in "UNICUM Abi")
  • 2001–2005: freelancer for DIE WELT newspaper (Berlin)
  • since 2003: caricatures for the newspaper " Financial Times Deutschland " (Hamburg)
  • 2004/2005: Caricatures for WELT AM SONNTAG (Berlin)
  • since 2005: caricatures for the " Berliner Zeitung "
  • 2006–2008: Political comic "Hilmar the capital reporter" for WELT AM SONNTAG
  • since 2019: caricatures for the Badische Zeitung

Caricatures in books

  • Don't worry, mom at the wheel! Cartoons of the year 2012. (1st annual volume) Schaltzeit Verlag Berlin, ISBN 978-3-941362-26-0 .
  • Cheers election time! The best and the best from the Versquemer album. Caricatures by NEL , Thomas Plaßmann , Heiko Sakurai and Klaus Stuttmann . With a foreword by Miriam Hollstein . Schaltzeit Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-941362-30-7 .
  • The black widow. Cartoons of the year 2013. (2nd annual volume) Schaltzeit Verlag, ISBN 978-3-941362-33-8 .
  • The accounting - Merkel's secret meeting minutes. Cartoons of the year 2014. (3rd volume) Schaltzeit Verlag, ISBN 978-3-941362-51-2 .
  • Neues Land: Cartoons of the year 2015. (4th volume) Schaltzeit Verlag, ISBN 978-3-941362-73-4 .
  • Bad tension: cartoons of the year 2016. (5th annual volume) Schaltzeit Verlag
  • Oh, how beautiful is Jamaica: Cartoons of the year 2017 , Schaltzeit Verlag
  • I can't let her ride alone ... Cartoons of the year 2018 , Schaltzeit Verlag.

Act as an illustrator

  • Lars von der Gönna: The ridicule of the little things. Henselowsky Boschmann Verlag , Bottrop 2014, ISBN 978-3-942094-43-6 .
  • Miriam Hollstein: Miss Tschörmänie: How Angie became our Chancellor. Eichborn-Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8218-6063-3 .
  • Oliver Griss, Christian Ortlepp: TSV 1860 Munich fan. Tomus Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-8231-1108-6 .
  • Illustrations for the "Sendung mit der Maus" (WDR) 1997, 1999.
  • Children's book illustrations (MISEREOR-Medien) 1994, 1997.

Awards

  • 1996: Young cartoonists award from Gothaer Insurance
  • 2007: Second prize at Rückblende 2006 (German Prize for Political Photography and Caricature)
  • 2009: Third prize in the flashback 2008
  • 2013: Third prize in the flashback 2012
  • 2014: First prize in the 2013 flashback

Web links

Press

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dominik Bloedner: Heiko Sakurai is the new cartoonist of the BZ. Badische Zeitung, December 11, 2019, accessed on January 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Miriam Hollstein: Miss Tschörmänie. ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Heiko Sakurai (illustrator). Eichborn Verlag , July 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.angie-comic.de
  3. ↑ Anja Pasquay: "Caricature Prize of the German Newspapers" to Heiko Sakurai. ( Memento from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) January 28, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Sakurai, Heiko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION political cartoonist in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen