Jan Feindt

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Jan Feindt (* 1975 in Lüneburg ) is a German illustrator and comic artist.

Career

Feindt studied in Hamburg and Tel Aviv , where he was one of the founding members of the Dimona Comix Group in 2002 . He left the group in early 2003 when he went back to Germany. Among other things, he published in Moga Mobo magazine and continued to deal with the situation in Israel . With his work for the volume Cargo: Comicreportagen aus Israel - Deutschland (2005), which was created on the initiative of Jens Harder and the Goethe-Institut Tel-Aviv, he made his debut in the field of comic journalism. His contribution focused on the life of Bedouin women in the Negev and their legal position. His illustrations have appeared in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal , among others .

Feindt was one of the illustrative artists whose exhibitions in 2007 and 2008 featured his pictures. He is married and has two children. He lives and works in Berlin .

In 2014 Feindt started a cooperation with the investigative journalist David Schraven , whose research on neo-Nazi structures in Dortmund was drawn up by Feindt for the joint comic WEISSE WÖLFE . The book was later awarded the German Reporter Prize 2015 in the “Innovation” category.

Awards

German Reporter Award 2015 ("Innovation" category) for "Weisse Wolfe" with David Schraven

Comics and Illustration

  • Dimona - An Israeli Comix Anthology 1 . Dimona Comix, 2003
  • Cargo: Comic reports from Israel - Germany . Avant, 2005
  • Tel Aviv Berlin - A travel book . Avant Verlag, 2005 (with Rutu Modan, Shelly Duvilanski, Yirmi Pinkus, Anke Feuchtenberger, Mira Friedmann, Itzik Rennert, Batia Kolton and Henning Wagenbreth)
  • Deep sea: Black smokers and flashing fish . Mareverlag, 2010 (Illustration. Author: Dagmar Röhrlich )
  • WHITE WOLVES . Correct! V, 2014 (Author: David Schraven)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Germans and Israeli artists create comic-journalism book ( Memento of June 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). European Jewish Press, December 30, 2005
  2. ^ 'Death Fugue' on the streets of Berlin . Hareetz, December 14, 2005
  3. ↑ Trickledown downsizing . The New York Times, December 10, 2008
  4. ↑ Honey, Do You Have to ...? . Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2010
  5. ↑ Main Exhibition Zurich 2008, Illustrative
  6. ↑ Jan Feindt, The Artists of the Illustrative, 2007 (artefacts)
  7. ^ Neo-Nazis in Dortmund . FAZ, February 10, 2015
  8. ↑ Review by The Comics Reporter
  9. ↑ Book tip at 3sat
personal data
SURNAME Feindt, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator and comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg