Jörg Müller (artist)

Jörg Müller (born October 11, 1942 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss illustrator .

Life

Jörg Müller grew up in Küsnacht near Zurich and after completing his training worked at the Biel Arts and Crafts School. Today he lives in Biel and in France.

His first picture portfolio Every year the jackhammer rushes down and made Jörg Müller known right away and earned him the German Youth Book Prize . Many other picture books followed, some of which were made into films. Most of his works, some of which he has been working on for years, were created in collaboration with the Swiss writer Jörg Steiner .

Awards

• 1974: German youth book award for every year the jackhammer rushes down again
• 1976: Bologna Ragazzi Award as honorable mention for The Bear Who Wished to Stay a Bear
• 1977: Swiss Youth Book Prize for his illustrations for children's books
• 1986: Max and Moritz Prize for Peter and the Wolf
• 1986: Bologna Ragazzi Award for Peter and the Wolf
• 1990: German Youth Literature Prize for The New Town Musicians in Animal Revolt
• 1994: Hans Christian Andersen Prize
• 2005: Toad of the Month for July for The Christmas Show
• 2005: LUCHS 226 for The Christmas Show

Works (selection)

• Every year the jackhammer rushes down or the change in the landscape , Sauerländer, Aargau / Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-7941-0218-5 .
• The bear who wanted to remain a bear , with Jörg Steiner, based on an idea by Frank Tashlin, retold and retold from English by Jörg Steiner, Sauerländer, Aarau / Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-7941-1372-1 .
• A house falls here, a crane stands there and the digger tooth threatens forever or The Change of the City , Sauerländer, Aarau / Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-7941-1499-X .
• The Rabbit Island , Aarau and others 1977. (together with Jörg Steiner)
• People in the Sea , 1981
• The ice flower forest , 1983
• Peter and the Wolf . A musical fairy tale by Sergei Prokofiev (Prokofiev) freely told by Loriot . With pictures by Jörg Müller. Sauerländer, Aarau / Frankfurt am Main / Salzburg 1985, ISBN 3-7941-2724-2 (A picture book for “young people”: 12 sheets with large-format illustrations and a long-playing record , in numerous later editions (audio CD)).
• The New Town Musicians in Animal Revolt , 1990
• with Heinrich Boxler: Burgenland Switzerland , Volume 1: Construction and everyday life , Aare, Solothurn 1990, ISBN 3-7260-0352-5 .
• The steadfast tin soldier , 1996
• What do you want to do when the black man comes? , 1998
• The Christmas Show , 2005

Movie

• 1974: Jörg Müller. A production by Saarländischer Rundfunk (13 minutes). Script and direction: Klaus Peter Dencker

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg Müller in the catalog of the German National Library