Heinz Behling

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Heinz Behling (1994)

Heinz Behling (born October 9, 1920 in Berlin ; † June 5, 2003 there ) was a graphic artist and caricaturist from the GDR .

After attending elementary school, Heinz Behling worked as a cinema advertising painter from 1934 to 1939 and also created caricatures during this time . After serving in the war from 1939 to 1945 in the Wehrmacht and being a prisoner of war with an anti-fascist school , he was a steelworker in Hennigsdorf from 1949/1950 and studied from 1950 to 1953 at the University of Applied Arts in Berlin. From 1953 Behling was a press draftsman for the magazine for humor u. Satire " Fresh Wind ", from which the GDR satirical magazine Eulenspiegel emerged in 1954 with his participation . In this magazine he published a total of 2,675 cartoons between 1954 and 1995. In 1953 he was involved in the design of the GDR's national coat of arms . From 1956 to 1972 he lived and worked in the western Havelland ( Rathenow district ), a. a. also as an art teacher and LPG farmer. He came to Dicke in 1967 via Ohnewitz , Rhinow and Stölln before moving back to Berlin.

Behling worked as a press illustrator for various newspapers. In addition to numerous caricatures, especially about everyday life in the GDR (in the tradition of Simplicissimus and Thomas Theodor Heine ), he created stage sets (e.g. for the cabaret theater Distel ), designed posters and programs as well as murals (e.g. 1964 for Otto Lilienthal in Stairwell of the Rhinow Polytechnic ). He organized over 100 exhibitions of his own. Behling also illustrated many children's books that are now available for example. T. have achieved cult status like alarm in the puppet theater . In the late 1950s he occasionally appeared as a cabaret artist on GDR television and embodied the painter Heinrich Zille in the 1987 television film Claire Berolina . Although pensioner since 1985, Behling continued to create caricatures for “Eulenspiegel” after 1990, campaigned against war missions and was a founding member of the “Helle Panke” association to promote politics, education and culture

In 1981, with the support of the actor and cabaret artist Edgar Külow, he founded the EDDI satire and cabaret prize for “non-dignity award winners”, which has been awarded until 1988 and again since 2013.

In 1985 he was awarded the Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin .

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  1. ^ A b Editor: "Heinz Behling (1920–2003)". In: Eulenspiegel , 49./57. Vol., No. 7/03, ISSN  0423-5975 , p. 6.
  2. ↑ Eulenspiegel special edition. The years 1980–1989 . Berlin 2004, p. 209.
personal data
SURNAME Behling, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 2003
Place of death Berlin