Ingeborg Meyer-Rey
Ingeborg Meyer-Rey , also Ingeborg Meyer-Tschesno , (born December 14, 1920 in Berlin ; † April 4, 2001 ) was a German illustrator .
biography
Ingeborg Meyer-Rey studied illustration and wall painting from 1940 to 1944 at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In 1939 she married Horst Rey, from whom she divorced in 1945. In 1946 she began working as a press illustrator for the Daily Rundschau and a year later at the art department at the House of Culture of the Soviet Union , today's Palais am Festungsgraben , where she stayed until 1950. Here she created, among other things, the stage design for Das Tierhäuschen . During this time she also designed booklets for the Roman newspaper and made her first works for children. In 1949, for example, her first illustrated book, The Wolf and Other Tales, was published by Yevgeny Tscharuschin . After the birth of her son in 1950, she worked as a freelancer and became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . She worked with many publishers, but especially with the children's book publisher Berlin . Her drawings appeared in the ABC newspaper and on the children's page of the Wochenpost . In 1957, she created the main character of the magazine of the same name for preschool children with the Bären Bummi . For many years she drew the monthly stories of this character, later less often. In addition there were her illustrations of Bummi books and calendars. She was also a member of the magazine's editorial board.
Inge Meyer-Rey became known not only for her book and magazine illustrations, but also for the interior decoration of the children's department store on Strausberger Platz (including the design and execution of the silk curtain for the Berlin puppet theater). From 1952 to 1955 she worked in the collective of the painter Bert Heller . From this time scratch paintings ( sgraffitos ) at the children's home AS Makarenko in Berlin's Königsheide as well as wall paintings in the child's house and in the house in Berlin on Strausberger Platz .
Meyer-Rey was married to the screenwriter Michael Tschesno from 1951 to 1954 , and from 1960 to his death in 1976 with the graphic artist Rudolf Schultz-Debowski , with whom she designed several books. She lived in Berlin-Mahlsdorf .
Meyer-Rey's pictures are figurative-realistic, carried by a natural empathy and a deeply internalized humanistic way of thinking. The extremely productive author became one of the most influential illustrators of children's books in the GDR . Generations of students, especially in the lower grades, used textbooks with their pictures. The book she illustrated, The Good Hero. Fairy Tales of the Peoples of the Soviet Union was voted one of the most beautiful books of the GDR in 1952. Most of her works achieved numerous new editions (two-digit edition numbers) - until today - and have also been successfully published abroad, for example in Sweden, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Hungary, the USA, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, China, in the Federal Republic and in the Sorbian language .
Publications
- The little wolf and other stories. Publishing house culture and progress, Berlin 1949
- with Elisabeth Schwarz: The first year of school. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1950
- About Peter who didn't want to wash. A picture book. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1951
- with Ludmilla Herzenstein: The curious duckling. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1952
- Little friends. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1952
- with Walter Krumbach: Our farm animals. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1953
- with Walter Krumbach: animal lovers. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1953
- with Ursula Peter: Our little boat travels through Germany. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1953
- Three children and a rollmops. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1953
- The stolen nose. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1953
- with Erika Engel : The Easter basket. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1955
- with Walter Krumbach: With the puppet doctor. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1955
- with Dorothea Neckel: Ulrikchen, good night. A picture book. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1955
- A Bi-Ba-Butzemann is dancing. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1955
- Hoppe Hoppe Reiter. Nursery rhymes. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1957
- Good morning, Rumpumpel. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1957
- Mauz and Minchen. A funny cat picture story. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1958
- with Edith Bergner: About Jochen, who didn't want to clean up. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1959
- with Edith Bergner: The big yellow dragon. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1959
- with Edith Bergner: The first day of school. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1959
- with Fred Rodrian : Der Märchenschimmel. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1960
- with Anne Geelhaar : Hans Fröhlich and the bird house. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1961
- with Rudolf Schultz-Debowski, Hansgeorg Stengel : 1-2-3 - we're there. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1962
- Come with me, little boy. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1963
- with Kurt Steiniger: Ringelreih of the seven days. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1963
- with Werner Lindemann : The Easter basket. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1964
- with Benno Pludra : Heiner and his chicken. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1965
- with Rudolf Schultz-Debowski: peep boxes for little people. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1965
- with Inge Trisch, Walter Krumbach, Wolfgang Richter , Rudolf Schultz-Debowski: Children's party with master Nadelöhr. Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag, Leipzig 1965
- with Witali Bianki : The first hunt. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1965
- My pets. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1966
- with Ursula Sturm, Walter Krumbach, Wolfgang Richter, Rudolf Schultz-Debowski: Our little sandman is coming soon. Lied der Zeit Musikverlag, Berlin 1966
- with Samuil Marschak : The animal house. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1967
- with Rudolf Schultz-Debowski and Hansgeorg Stengel: Circus top and bottom. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1967
- with Ingeborg Feustel : The funny pranks of the Pitti-Splash. A musical picture book. Song of Time, Berlin 1967
- with Elsbeth Friemert: Who knows my animals. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1968
- with Benno Pludra: About the bear who couldn't sleep. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1968
- with Hiltrud Lind: The blue-flowered buffalo child. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1968
- with Alfred Könner: Watschel. Altberliner Verlag Groszer, Berlin 1968
- with Walter Krumbach: Colorful leaves. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1968
- with Samuil Marschak, Johannes Bobrowski : The animal house. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1968
- with Horst Irrgang: A little man stands in the forest. German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1970
- Mishka the bear. A fairy tale with pictures. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1970
- with Friedrich Güll : Wonder Garden. Poems. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1972
- with Eva Strittmatter : Brother Vierbein. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1972
- Three little chicks. Altberliner Verlag, Berlin 1973
- with Hiltrud Lind: Randi. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1973.
- with Vladislav Stanovsky and Jan Vladislav Lommelchen. A Czech fairy tale. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1973
- Three little monkeys. Based on a Japanese folk tale . Altberliner Verlag Groszer, Berlin 1974
- with Wolfgang Buschmann and Rudolf Schultz-Debowski: The story of the nutcracker Kunka. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1974
- with Edith Bergner: The star in the apple tree. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1974
- with Valentin Katajew : Shawm and mug. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1975
- with Horst Irrgang and Ursula Werner-Böhnke : Bummi at the North Pole. A picture book with music. German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1976
- Bees are buzzing around. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1977
- with Barbara Augustin: Seahorse Race. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1978
- with Andreas Reimann : Small animals like to eat. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1978
- with Renate Krause: The Sunflower Festival. Altberliner Verlag Groszer, Berlin 1978
- with Stepan Pissachow : How the Pope took a maid. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1978
- with Anne Geelhaar: little head, my little head. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1979
- with Klaus Bourquain Vom Veilchen, which did not smell. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1980
- with Alfred Könner: Three little rabbits. Altberliner Verlag, Berlin 1983
- Little Häwelmann . A children's fairy tale. By Theodor Storm : Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1984
- with Fred Rodrian: who steals the bacon? Children's book publisher, Berlin 1984
- with Wolfgang Buschmann: Hello, Ms. Igel. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1984
- A bird wanted to make a wedding. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1987
literature
- Erich Schwanecke: The book illustration of the German Democratic Republic. German Library; Leipzig 1974, p. 10.
- Painted for children: book illustrators of the GDR. Berlin 1975 (without page numbers and without ISBN).
- Lothar Lang: From Hegenbarth to Altenbourg. Book illustration and artist book in the GDR. Hauswedell, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7762-1200-4 , p. 210.
- Dietmar Eisold (ed.): Lexicon artists of the GDR. Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 601-602.
- Jeanette Toussaint, Ralf Forster: The children's magazine BUMMI. From toy land to East German reality. Edited by Silke Siebrecht-Grabig. Rochow Edition, Reckahn 2017, pp. 84/85. ISBN 978-3-9819076-0-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ingeborg Meyer-Rey in the catalog of the German National Library
- Search for Ingeborg Meyer-Rey in the German Digital Library
- Search for Ingeborg Meyer-Rey in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Short biography on zvab.com
- Data on librarything.com with cover examples
- https://home.uni-leipzig.de/buchwissenschaft/ingeborg-mayer-rey/
- https://www.hdg.de/lemo/haben/objekt/karten-pionierzeltlager.html Wall scroll by Inge Meyer-Rey
- http://www.ddr-comics.de/abc56.htm selected covers of the ABC newspaper from 1956, including by Inge Meyer-Rey
Individual evidence
- ^ "Art and Artists from Berlin-Mahlsdorf" - Vernissage on May 13th. , Press release of the Marzahn-Hellersdorf District Office, May 3, 2011
- ↑ http://gateway-bayern.de/BV021307124
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer-Rey, Ingeborg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer-Tschesno, Ingeborg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 2001 |