Jürgen Günther

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Herta and Jürgen Günther, 2014

Jürgen Günther (born February 24, 1938 in Halle ; † May 30, 2015 in Dresden ) was a German comic artist . His best-known series, Otto and Alwin , appeared in the GDR children's magazine FRÖSI from 1974 .

Life

Günther began his professional career in 1958 at the Dresden animation film studio . In 1960 he began commissioned work for FRÖSI , mostly comic versions of well-known literary material. He also worked for magazines such as the Free World and the Sorbian newspaper Płomjo .

In 1974 he created the green monkey Otto and the penguin Alwin for FRÖSI , which would develop into his greatest success and Günther's trademark. In 1979 Günther created 55 Otto and Alwin collection pictures for the OK Big Babaloo chewing gum .

After the reunification the production of the FRÖSI was stopped. Günther remained active and drew, among other things, for the children's page of the Sächsische Zeitung and the series "Ed & Eddy" for the Berliner Zeitung .

Since the revival of the FRÖSI he had also resumed work on "Otto and Alwin". On the occasion of his 70th birthday, the Dresden City Archives organized a personal exhibition in February 2008. In March 2008 and December 2010 he published the two-volume complete edition of the "Otto and Alwin" comics in the Holzhof Verlag Dresden.

Jürgen Günther lived with his wife Herta Günther in Dresden until his death .

Honors

On Günther's 75th birthday in February 2013, the Holzhof Verlag in Dresden published a hommage volume in the form of a comic anthology with the title Otto and Alwin's great party ( ISBN 978-3-939509-73-8 ) with the participation of 28 German artists .

The 7th album of the comic series Luzian Engelhardt by Dirk Seliger (text) and Jan Suski (drawings) from 2016 is dedicated to Jürgen Günther.

Book publications (selection)

  • (with Walter Stohr and Frank Frenzel) Frösi handicraft stage. A finger puppet theater fun to replay . Young World Publishing House, Berlin 1984.
  • (with Wilfried Weidner and Walter Stohr) Otto and Alwin Lachkabinett. With 24 picture stories in 4 pictures and a riddle castle . Young World Publishing House, Berlin 1989.
  • Classics of GDR visual history. Volume 1: Flitzi . Holzhof Verlag, Dresden 2005. ISBN 3-00-017510-5 (26 episodes from the NBI , 1978/79)
  • Classics of GDR visual history. Volume 10: Mischa and Kalle . Holzhof Verlag, Dresden 2008. ISBN 978-3-939509-09-7 (73 episodes from the Free World , 1971/72)
  • Classics of GDR visual history. Volume 19: Grandpa and the Bathtub . Holzhof Verlag, Dresden 2010. ISBN 978-3-939509-19-6 (24 selected comics from the NEWS magazine, 1971–81, German first publication)
  • Otto and Alwin - Complete Edition . Edition Günther im Holzhof Verlag, Dresden 2008. ISBN 978-3-939509-99-8 (all episodes from FRÖSI, 1974–1981)
  • Otto and Alwin - Complete Edition. Vol. 2 . Edition Günther im Holzhof Verlag, Dresden 2010. ISBN 978-3-939509-82-0 (all episodes from FRÖSI, 1981-2005)
  • Children, how time flies! . Edition Sächsische Zeitung im Holzhof Verlag, Dresden 2008. ISBN 978-3-938325-47-6 (all episodes of “Kasimir und Josefine” as well as a cross-section of his work from the beginnings to “Otto and Alwin” to “Ed and Eddy” and "Detective Blöff")
  • Spring, summer, autumn & winter - fun puzzles from Jürgen Günther . Edition Günther im Holzhof Verlag, Dresden 2009. ISBN 978-3-939509-90-5 (selection of comic strips and puzzles with the lion Casimir and the duck Josefine, which were created from 1994 to 2009 for the children's page of the Saxon newspaper)

literature

  • Guido Weißhahn: 5-part series of articles on Jürgen Günther in: Mosa.X , Comic-Magazin, Hefte 1–5, Dresden 2005–2007
  • Andreas Greve: Jürgen Günther, before he became a comic artist in Mosa.X , Comic-Magazin, Heft 9, Dresden 2009, pp. 23-27
  • Dirk Seliger : Jürgen Günther - One of the "big three" of GDR comics in: Comixene , 19th year, issue 106, 2009, pp. 60–62
  • Michael F. Scholz :  Günther, Jürgen . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Comic artist Jürgen Günther dead. One of the greats of comics in GDR times: Jürgen Günther († 77). In: PressReader.com. Dresdner Morgenpost , June 1, 2015, accessed on June 1, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2015
Place of death Dresden