Heiner Lünstedt

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Heiner Lünstedt (2017)

Heiner Lünstedt (born November 3, 1960 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist , book author, comic author and one of the two directors of the Munich comic festival since 2011 .

education

Heiner Lünstedt grew up in his hometown of Hamburg, where he graduated from the former "Gymnasium am Rispenweg", later renamed the Goethe Gymnasium . He graduated from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in the field of civil engineering .

Professional background

Technical profession

In 1987, after completing his studies, Lünstedt worked for the Deutsche Bundesbahn and worked for 13 years as a civil servant at the Munich Federal Railway Directorate and at the Deutsche Bahn research and technology center in Munich-Freimann. His area of ​​responsibility was the planning and implementation of level crossings in the Rosenheim and Mühldorf area . In the last few years of his work at the railway, he dealt with noise and acoustics and carried out sound measurements all over Germany with a specially equipped measuring train. One year after being promoted to the “Technical Federal Railway Authority” in 2001, he gave up his job with the railway and six years later he was finally released from civil servant status.

Artistic activity

With comics to Lünstedt employed from an early age, as a child he was allowed to read full comics. In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung on the occasion of the 2015 comic festival in Munich, he said about his experience with comics:

"For me the first ten Schlumpf albums by Peyo are the best comic albums ever ... Reading comics is a skill that has to be developed, many adults no longer learn it if they have not practiced it."

Heiner Lünstedt has been maintaining his comics platform Highlightzone on the Internet since 2000 with reviews of books and animated films. There he reports on new comics, films, DVDs, books and CDs. Since then he has also hosted the Munich Comic Café , which takes place seven times a year in the Munich Werkstattkino. Guests were among others Ralf Palandt , Wolfgang J. Fuchs , Dieter Hanitzsch , Jan Gulbransson , Hansi Kraus , Uli Oesterle , Ivica Astalos , Frank Schmolke , Gudrun Penndorf and Rudi Hurzlmeier . Lünstedt has directed the biennial comic festival in Munich since 2011, initially together with Michael Kompa, in 2015 with Wolfgang J. Fuchs and in 2017 with Rainer Schneider . Lünstedt regularly attends comic festivals in San Diego and Angoulême and reports about them in various media. He also curates exhibitions, for example the 2017 exhibitions on “50 Years of German MAD ” in the Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum in Munich and with caricatures by Horst Haitzinger in the Munich Beer and Oktoberfest Museum . For the 2019 comic festival, he curated an exhibition on the satire magazine Titanic, also in the Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum.

As a specialist comic journalist, he writes for daily newspapers as well as for scene publications, including for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , and in Alfonz - Der Comicreporter . He is responsible for the comic review corner of the German-language comic magazine Die sprachblase and publishes in Comixene , the oldest German specialist magazine for comics and cartoon.

Lünstedt has written comic biographies of significant historical figures. In autumn 2013 he published a comic with the Nuremberg illustrator Ingrid Sabisch about the life of Willy Brandt , two years later the same team portrayed Sophie Scholl and this comic was also published in Taiwan. Together with Michael Kompa he published the book A tribute to Robert Crumb , in which 80 artists honor the master of the comix. For the 2019 Munich Comic Festival, he and Hartmut Becker published the book Schultheiss - Pictures at an Exhibition ( ISBN 978-3-89908-698-0 ). And he writes articles in the ICOM comic yearbooks.

At the Comiciade Festival in Aachen on April 13, 2018, Lünstedt was awarded the comic prize, which was awarded there for the first time, because he was committed to this event and the medium of comics.

Publications (selection)

Web links

Commons : Heiner Lünstedt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ portrait Heiner Lünstett. 17th International Comic Salon Erlangen, May 26, 2016, accessed on May 19, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Heiner Lünstedt. comicfestival-muenchen.de, May 10, 2017, accessed on May 19, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Sabine Buchwald: More than a hobby, Smurf is trump. sueddeutsche.de, May 7, 2015, accessed on May 21, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Imprint of Highlightzone. comic.highlightzone.de, accessed on May 19, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Comic Café: On the way to the Spanish comic festival. wochenanzeiger.de, August 27, 2015, accessed on May 19, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Oliver Hochkeppel: The most sensible show in the world, 50 years of the German MAD. süddeutsche.de, May 11, 2017, accessed May 30, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Oliver Hochkeppel: World theater with a powerful line. süddeutsche.de, May 23, 2017, accessed on May 23, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Heiner Lünstedt: Exhibitions and Awards, Lucky Luke will die. süddeutsche.de, February 2, 2016, accessed on May 19, 2017 .
  9. ↑ ALFONZ No. 02/2017. Homepage of ALFONZ - Der Comicreporter, accessed on May 19, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Home of comic nostalgia friends. comic-nostalgiefreunde.de, accessed on May 19, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Comixene's homepage. comixene.com, accessed May 19, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Simon Schwartz et alii: A Tribute to Robert Crumb . Ed .: Heiner Lünstedt. Edition 52, Wuppertal 2013, ISBN 978-3-935229-84-5 , pp. 96 .
  13. ↑ COMIC Yearbook 2017. ICOM Comic eV, accessed on May 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Lünstedt, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comic author, illustrator and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg