Ioan Cozacu

Nel (Ioan Cozacu) (born June 27, 1953 in Cluj-Napoca , Romania) has been a freelance cartoonist and book illustrator since 1984 and is one of the best-known cartoonists in Germany.

Nel studied from 1973 to 1978 at the University of Industrial Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein in Halle (Saale) . He lives and works in Erfurt . He works for various publishers such as Eulenspiegel , Altberliner, Mitteldeutscher, Weißer Stein, Lappan, Liszt, Weymann-Bauer, Eichborn . He also works on various newspapers and magazines, including TLZ , WAZ , ADZ , taz, as well as Eulenspiegel and Stern . Ioan Cozacu is a founding member of the cartoon factory Köpenick.

Prizes and awards

• 2015: 3rd winner at the flashback 2015
• 2011: 1st winner of the German Caricature Award
• 2011: 2nd prize winner at the flashback 2010 . Competition of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV)
• 2008: 1st prizewinner at the flashback . The German Prize for Political Photography and Caricature
• 2005: Awarded the German Prize for the political cartoon "With a pointed pen"
• 2001: 3rd place at the German Prize for the political cartoon "With a pointed pen"
• 2001: 2nd place in the caricature award of the German newspapers (BDZV)
• 1999: Gothaer Karikade
• 1995: Berlin cartoon summer

bibliography

• 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 978-3-9413-6230-7 .
• NEL (Ioan Cozacu): Day in, day out - NEL's normal madness . With a foreword by FW Bernstein , Schaltzeit Verlag , Berlin (2012), ISBN 978-3941362253
• Markus Wolf (Author), Ioan Cozacu (Illustrator): Secrets of Russian Cuisine . Publisher: Eulenspiegel (2007), ISBN 978-3359016625
• Manfred Reissig (author), Ioan Cozacu (illustrator): Don't despair, life goes on . Published by Weimarer Taschenbuch Verlag (2005), ISBN 978-3937939162
• Matthias Biskupek (author), Ioan Cozacu (illustrator): The social budgie: The horrible but edifying story of an intelligent bird living together with a writer who is permanently overwhelmed by society . Publisher: Individuell (2005), ISBN 978-3935552110
• Frank Quilitzsch (Author), Ioan Cozacu (Illustrator): Things We'll Miss. From carpet knockers to love letters . Publisher: Gustav Kiepenheuer (2002), ISBN 3-378-01061-4
• Frank Quilitzsch (author), Ioan Cozacu (illustrator): A Thuringian in New York and other oddities . RhinoVerlag (1997), ISBN 978-3-932081-25-5

Web links

• Private homepage (daily updated caricatures)
• Literature by and about Ioan Cozacu in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Winner flashback 2015
2. ↑ Winner of the German Caricature Prize 2011 ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Competition of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV)
4. ^ The German Prize for Political Photography and Caricature
5. ↑ "With a pointed pen" ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.