Horst Schrade

Horst Schrade (nickname Knobbi ; born April 16, 1924 in Klein Steegen (today Stega Mała ), Preußisch Eylau district , East Prussia ; † February 27, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German cartoonist .

Life

From 1942 to 1945 he was a seaman in the German Navy , but fled to a Danish icebreaker shortly before the end of the war .

Until 1949 he worked as a new teacher in Brück and mainly gave drawing lessons.

From 1949 to 1953 Schrade studied at the University of Applied Arts in the Berlin district of Weißensee . In 1953 he received his diploma as a press illustrator and since then has worked as a regular client for the satirical magazines "Frischer Wind" and " Eulenspiegel ". At Eulenspiegel, Horst Schrade was a regular draftsman until his retirement in 1989. He also drew for the " Junge Welt ", the "Bauernzeitung", " The Truth ", the " Berliner Zeitung " and numerous other press organs as well as television. He also designed posters for “ Die Distel ”.

He lived and worked in the GDR until the fall of the Berlin Wall . Most recently, Berlin was his home and work.

Publications in book form

• Handbook - caricatures by Horst Schrade. Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-359-00286-5 .
• Detlev Enneper, Renate Enneper (Eds.): Caricatures by Horst Schrade - popular + accurate. A retrospective with 80th edition Buchholz, DEVA Medien-Service Lars Enneper, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-932779-02-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eulenspiegel draftsman Horst Schrade has died. in Neues Deutschland Newsroom at Presseportal.de

literature

• Harald Kretschmar: Man of the targeted comedy. "Eulenspiegel draftsman" Horst Schrade dies. In: Neues Deutschland from February 28, 2014.

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Schrade in the catalog of the German National Library
• Horst Schrade in the House of History