Jürgen Tomicek
Jürgen Tomicek (born May 17, 1957 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) is a German cartoonist . He works and lives today in Werl, Westphalia .
Tomicek's caricatures are printed in millions of copies every day by newspapers and magazines in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. After Werler had initially regularly presented his humorous and critical commentary on local politics in the local edition of the local newspaper Westfalenpost , the then full-time police officer made a career as a cartoonist. Today he is one of the most prominent satirical press illustrators in German-speaking countries. The Berlin stage and the wide world are now his favorite subjects.
Life
At school Tomicek was the class clown, as he himself admits in retrospect. After his school days in Bad Bergzabern and Werl , he completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk in Werl from 1972 to 1975 with his first work in the areas of advertising graphics and product drawing. During the nights Jürgen Tomicek practiced drawing portraits during his school and apprenticeship , although some time ago he explained in a conversation:
"I never wanted to make drawing a job, it's way too beautiful for that"
He turned down a scholarship , which at a young age might have been the start of full-time work as an artist.
Following a passion, I changed my profession in 1975: training as a police officer and several years of service in Cologne , Dortmund and later Werl as a motorcycle police officer . During this time, he dealt with book illustrations - including a work on the history of the policeman - as well as drawings for the police union newspaper.
His abilities were really discovered at an event organized by the daily newspaper Westfalenpost (WP). Tomicek applied there as a quick draftsman. From 1982 onwards he put local topics on paper as satirical, pictorial commentaries. Since 1984 WP (main editorial office Hagen) has also been printing caricatures by Jürgen Tomicek in its national section. Tomicek was funded mainly by Ralf Rensmann, art historian and head of the WP local editorial office in Werl:
“His pointy pen never moved on the tightrope for cold cynicism . Rather, he is an artist under the dome of fine irony . Tomicek dips the mighty of the continents, the big heads of history in the ink of the human. His pen turns the title characters into people like you and me. "
This is probably one of the reasons why none of the “victims” have sued the cartoonist for insulting them.
Jürgen Tomicek, who sees himself as a “ symbiosis of journalist and artist”, now sends one to three of his pen drawings - some colored - to around 50 editorial offices in Germany, Austria and Switzerland every day. From the Aachener Zeitung and the Kölnische Rundschau in the west to the major Berlin newspapers and the Freie Presse (Chemnitz) in the east and from the Flensburger Tageblatt in the north to the Münchner Merkur , the Augsburger Allgemeine and the New Day (Weiden) in the south its area of distribution.
Today the freelance cartoonist lives and works in Werl-Westönnen . After he got married in 1984, he lived there with his wife and their children.
Works
In addition to numerous exhibitions at home and abroad, thematic yearbooks have been published regularly since 1989, which the artist has published together with various publishers:
- Yearbooks (6) 1989–95: Tomicek '89 , stop the police! , Kohldampf , Germany's bottom line , Tomicek's Pressewesen 1994 and Tomicek's Pressewesen 1995 , AY-Verlag, Olpe-Rhode
- Yearbooks (2) 1996–97: Zodiac Signs and Kassensturz , Grobbel-Verlag, Schmallenberg-Bad Fredeburg
- Yearbooks (7) 1998–2004: That’s it! , St (r) ichproben '99 , Ansichtssachen , Currency Exchange , (Sat) completely seriously , paint Wet and drawn from life , Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster
- Yearbooks (3) 2005–07: Own goals , The Chancellor and Berlin Follies , Ad-Media, Wickede (Ruhr)
Since 2007 his caricature yearbooks have been published by the Tomicek publishing house, which he founded especially for this purpose:
- Yearbooks (9): The best Tomicek caricatures 2007-2015 , Verlag Tomicek, Werl
His drawings can also be found in many cartoonist anthologies:
- Edited volumes (7) The caricatures of the year 1990-1998 , summarized by Klaus Bresser
Other books that Tomicek was the sole author are:
- Ten little Kelly children , Verlag Walter Podszun, Brilon 1996 - a satirical representation of the Irish Kelly family of musicians based on the story of the " Ten Little Negroes "
- Grüne Welle , Verlag Tomicek, Werl 2011
- Merkel mode , Tomicek Verlag, Werl 2012
- Animals in the caricature , Verlag Tomicek, Werl 2015
Awards
- 2007: German Prize for Political Caricature 1st place
literature
- Dunker, Andreas: Ink of the human. Jürgen Tomicek: Police officer and cartoonist. in: Westfalenspiegel. Year 1992, Issue No. 3. Münster: Ardey-Verlag, 1992. Page 26 (category: People)
- Germ, Walther: People in the ink. The career of caricaturist Jürgen Tomicek. in: Werl. yesterday Today Tomorrow. Volume No. 11 (1994). Page 7–18.
- Winkin, Helmut in: ense-press. Ense: ENSE-PRESS-VERLAG advertising community interested. Bürger GbR, 1997. Edition from September 26, 1997. Page 25 (Category: Artists from the Soest district)
Web links
- Literature by and about Jürgen Tomicek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Jürgen Tomicek
- Ense-Press about Tomicek
Individual evidence
- ↑ »We'll express it!« Verlag-tomicek.de, September 2, 2014
- ^ Jürgen Tomicek catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ Jürgen Tomicek mitspitzerfeder.de (German Prize for Political Caricature) from January 9, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tomicek, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cartoonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kempten (Allgäu) |