Jacques Tilly

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Jacques Tilly (2010)

Jacques Tilly (born June 27, 1963 in Düsseldorf ) is a German sculptor and communication designer as well as a well-known carnival car maker.

Origin and studies

Jacques Tilly attended the Comenius-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf from 1973 to 1982. Since 1984 he has been designing and building satirical political cars for the Düsseldorf Rose Monday procession . From 1985 to 1994 he studied communication design at the University of Essen . He is a member of the board of trustees of the evolutionary-humanistic Giordano Bruno Foundation . Jacques Tilly lives with his wife, the filmmaker Ricarda Hinz, in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel .

Artistic creation

  • Entrance to Tilly's year-round wagon building hall (2018)
  • My Düsseldorf, with Jacques Tilly, April 14, 2018 (07) .jpg
  • My Düsseldorf, with Jacques Tilly, April 14, 2018 (05) .jpg

Carnival floats

The carnival floats from Jacques Tilly's workshop are characterized by a particularly snappy, satirical nature, which primarily addresses current socio-political developments. These carnival floats have given the Düsseldorf Rose Monday procession increased national and international attention. Many of his cars and designs have sparked loud protests. The chronicle of the controversial motif wagons from Düsseldorf is long:

  • 1994 a naked Chancellor Kohl: After a CDU lawyer from Bonn threatened with an injunction, a figure had to be rebuilt that portrayed the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl as a naked jungle Indian.
  • 1996 Crucifix car: A nationwide wave of protests stopped the construction of a political car that targeted the reaction of Bavarian politicians to a Federal Constitutional Court ruling.
  • 1997 Bust war: When the “bust ban” pronounced by the Cologne umbrella organization of carnivalists was mocked during the carnival, a “bust war” broke out between Cologne and Düsseldorf.
  • 2000 Runoff election: A car that featured Marlies Smeets, Düsseldorf's SPD mayor, who was defeated in a runoff election, could not be realized after protests. Since this incident, Tilly has kept all of Düsseldorf's political cars secret until the Rose Monday procession, making use of the freedom of fools . As of 2018 , some will only be completed in the very last few hours.
  • 2005 Cardinal Meisner : A car that satirically portrayed Cardinal Meisner's stance on abortion provoked strong protests from Catholic organizations.
  • 2007 Suicide bomber: The Central Council of Muslims strongly criticized a car that made fun of Islamist suicide bombers.
  • 2009 Skinhead Rüttgers: A car in which the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Rüttgers hit the homeless aid as a skinhead, led directly to the cancellation of the homeless aid by the state government.
  • 2009 Pope car: Cardinal Meisner criticized the car on which Pope Benedict shook hands with the devil in the form of Richard Williamson, who was labeled “anti-Semitism” : “It is my concern not to leave this unchallenged. The presentation is not only wrong, it is also hurtful. "
  • 2015 Charlie Hebdo wagon: In contrast to other more cautious cities, the Düsseldorf carnivalists had four Jacques Tilly wagons drive to the Islamist terror in order to defend the freedom of fools. The TV news from ARD and ZDF reported about the Rosenmontagszug especially as a political event and not just as a custom.
  • 2016 Jarosław Kaczyński car on which Kaczyński, in military uniform, placed his foot on the head of the Polish woman kneeling in front of him. Next to him was a radio labeled Radio Maryja .

In addition to the political wagons, Jacques Tilly and his team build dozens of stately and advertising wagons for Düsseldorf and other cities such as Aachen, Krefeld, Hilden and Ratingen every year. In addition, carnival-like stage decorations are created in his workshop, including for the television session of the Düsseldorf Carnival .

  • Merkel in America (2003)

  • Cardinal Meisner cultivates tradition (2005)

  • Suicide bomber (2007)

  • " Brexit " and Jacques Tilly (2018)

  • Brexit (2019)

Large sculptures

Jacques Tilly's team also takes on commissioned work during the carnival-free period. With the large-scale sculptures, such as for the World Youth Day Cologne 2005 , the G20 summit in Hamburg 2017 or the Brexit , the artist and his team repeatedly take a stand on political and ideological issues.

  • Schalke heads (2001)

  • Pope Dinosaur (2005)

  • Whipping Nun (2010)

  • Donald Trump as a baby (2017)

  • Anti-Brexit protest car, Manchester (2017)

Movie

  • 2015: The great freedom of fools. A documentary about Jacques Tilly and the Düsseldorf Carnival

Own publications

literature

Awards

  • Jan-Wellem-Ring of the city of Düsseldorf
  • Amnesty International Human Rights Award

Web links

Commons : Jacques Tilly  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website: Front pages of several newspapers from February 5, 2008
  2. ^ Website: "China Daily" magazine , February 5, 2008
  3. ↑ Website: Cover of the magazine "Al-Quds Al-Arabi" from February 24, 2004, published worldwide
  4. ↑ Website: Documentation of the processes by Ricarda Hinz (YouTube)
  5. ↑ Joachim Cardinal Meisner: Cardinal thinks carnival floats are hurtful. February 27, 2009. Retrieved June 17, 2009 . ; see also Cardinal Meisner complains about carnival floats. RP Online, February 24, 2009, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Website: ARD Tagesthemen from February 16, 2015 (YouTube)
  7. ↑ TVN24: Polska pod butem Kaczyńskiego na niemieckiej paradzie from 8 February 2016
  8. ↑ express.de: Film about Zoch in Düsseldorf: Jacques Tilly: "Wahnsinn, what went off after Rose Monday" , March 18, 2015
  9. ↑ narrenfreiheit-film.de , website of filmmaker Steve Antonin ( "Kalkofes focusing screen"), Daniela Antonin and Michael Goergen
  10. ^ Jan Wellem Ring for Jacques Tilly. lokalkompass.de, January 28, 2016, accessed on January 28, 2016 .
  11. ↑ YELLOW JERSEY OF HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ARTIST JACQUES TILLY. amnesty.de, June 28, 2017, accessed July 28, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Tilly, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator, sculptor and carnival float maker
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf