Janosch

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Janosch at the Poetentaler Awards 2002

Horst Eckert alias Janosch (born March 11, 1931 in Hindenburg , Upper Silesia ) is a German illustrator , children's book author and writer . He lives in Tenerife . In 2006, when asked about his nationality and religion, he called himself “ Silesian ” in an interview . Janosch is primarily known for illustrated children's stories such as Oh, how beautiful is Panama , Post for the Tiger and I'll make you healthy, said the bear , some of which were filmed as Janosch's dream hour . He is also the originator of the tiger duck . But he has also written a number of books for adults.

Life

Janosch's father was an alcoholic and violent towards his family. Janosch grew up with his grandparents in a mining settlement until his parents could afford their own apartment. At the age of 13 he got jaundice , which was "treated" with homemade schnapps. He was a member of what he said was an "intensely tormented Jesuit youth group" of the Marian Congregation . In 1944 he received an apprenticeship as a blacksmith and worked in a locksmith's shop ("My best and most important time in life, because I was taught the most important sentence of my life: There is nothing that cannot be done").

After the end of the Second World War and his father's return home in 1946, his parents fled with him to West Germany. In the same year, the Polish authorities granted the family Polish citizenship and sent a notification to their home address (now ul. Kowalska 11a), but the letter did not reach them in time before they fled. In an interview with Gazeta Wyborcza , Janosch himself claimed that after the war he was one of the first 100 people to apply for Polish citizenship, but never received the passport because they fled west. He cited the fact that the family had nothing to eat and no intact apartment in their hometown as reasons for fleeing. Janosch lived in Bad Zwischenahn for 15 years , where he worked in textile factories, and attended a textile school in Krefeld , where he took part in a pattern drawing course with Gerhard Kadow , a student of Paul Klee .

After a stay in Paris he moved to Munich in 1953 , where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with Ernst Geitlinger , among others , but had to break off his art studies after a few trial semesters due to "lack of talent". With Romano Guardini he studied "for a long time around Catholic Christianity". Then he worked as a freelance artist. 1956 began his writing activity in the feature pages. A friend advised him to turn his drawings into a children's book, and his publisher Georg Lentz advised him to call himself “Janosch”. In 1960 his first children's book, The Story of Valek the Horse , was published by the publisher he was friends with, and in 1970 his first novel Cholonek or Der liebe Gott aus Lehm .

In 1980 Janosch moved, originally to recover from an illness, to a house in the mountains of Tenerife , which he soon made his permanent home. In an interview Janosch answered the question why he is so reluctant to give interviews: “I am really autistic . I would like to be invisible. "

Bus stop with Janosch figures in Bunsoh

Some of his most famous characters are Schnuddel or the tiger duck , who appeared together with the tiger and the bear in Post for the tiger , Oh, how beautiful is Panama (filmed under the same title ) and I'll make you healthy, said the bear . Janosch doesn't just draw and write children's books. In his books for adults he processes, among other things, experiences of his childhood. The rejection of godly religiosity, the advocacy of family relationships, friendship and the question of the meaning of life are always a topic for him.

In 1985 and 1989 his stories were produced as Janosch's dream hour for television. Janosch used to be the majority owner of Janosch AG (Janosch film & medien AG). He received the shares instead of an agreed takeover price and sold them to the bank, which was attached to the AG.

His autobiographical book Diary of a Pious Heretic has not yet been published by a publisher. However, the first chapter was translated into Polish and published in 2005, after the writer's visit to Upper Silesia, in the largest Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza . In the chapter of his autobiography published in Poland, Janosch takes a critical look at his conservative Silesian family. Janosch said in this context: “To be born a Catholic is the biggest accident of my life”, even if his family was not very religious.

In 2005 he also traveled to his hometown ( Zabrze ) and even toyed with the idea of ​​relocating there, which he never realized. In interviews with the Polish press, he repeatedly referred to his ties to Silesia and Poland . He said: “I consider myself a Silesian, this is my nationality, this is my religion” (“Czuję się Ślązakiem, to moja narodowość, to moja religia”). And also: “I also feel a bit like a Pole. In my family only the name Eckert is German. My other grandfathers were called Piecha, Morawiec, Głodny. " However, Janosch says he speaks only “a little” Polish.

Janosch is now a member of the Advisory Board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation , for which he draws satirical cartoons critical of the church. He is also a supporter of the "Spatzenkampagne" of the German Wildlife Foundation . As a reason for his commitment, he states that in some way he has to make up for a debt because his father was a bird catcher. He is also committed to the Tannheim aftercare clinic .

On April 16, 2010, Janosch announced at an exhibition of his work that he would not write any more books. From now on he just wanted to "travel and lie in the hammock" and consider himself untalented anyway.

In July 2013 ZEITmagazin announced its "comeback" with a weekly contribution for the magazine. In Janosch's words, these drawings are “about me: Wondrak, the new superstar”. His last post "Mr. Janosch, how do you say goodbye?" Appeared there on November 21, 2019.

Janosch married his longtime partner Ines in 2013. The couple is childless.

Works

Janosch has published over 150 books so far, some of which have been translated into more than 30 languages:

Awards

Janosch with the Bayerischer Poetentaler, 2002

Honors

  • On March 1, 2013, the first day of issue, Deutsche Post AG issued two postage stamps with the values ​​45 and 58 euro cents with the motifs sailing boat and Easter by Janosch. The special stamps also show motifs from these Janosch drawings. The design comes from Grit Fiedler from Leipzig.
  • The “Augustfehn Primary School” in the municipality of Apen in the Lower Saxony district of Ammerland bears the title “Janosch Augustfehn Primary School”. Janosch was a student at the school for a year. He said he had had a very good year in Augustfehn. He would like to remember his school days here.

literature

Movies

  • "Where I am is Panama". The Journey of Mr. Janosch (D 2011, Direction Joachim Lang )
  • "Yes is good, no is good" (D 2009, director Joachim Lang)

Web links

Commons : Janosch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Piotr Hnatyszyn: zabrzanie Znani. In: wyborcza.pl. Gazeta Wyborcza (Polish), October 16, 2006, accessed March 26, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Tilman Spreckelsen: Almost a millionaire. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 18, 2007, accessed June 24, 2014 .
  3. ^ A b c d Philipp Zieger: Children's book author Janosch about social commitment and the aftercare clinic Tannheim. "I like to get involved" . In: Südkurier of May 13, 2009.
  4. ↑ a b Angela Bajorek: Now it's all over . Interview, partial print from the biography, in: Literary World , February 20, 2016, p. 6
  5. ↑ quoted from From the luck of having survived as Mr. Janosch
  6. ↑ Jacek Madeja: Dom Janoscha został zburzony i… odnaleziony. In: wyborcza.pl. Gazeta Wyborcza , October 10, 2008, accessed March 26, 2016 (Polish).
  7. ↑ Bartosz T. Wielinski: Mów mi Janosz, jestem Ślązakiem. In: wyborcza.pl. Gazeta Wyborcza , June 16, 2005, accessed March 26, 2016 (Polish).
  8. ↑ Corinne Schmid: Janosch: "I would like to be invisible" - conversation on the 75th birthday ( memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz. March 9, 2006.
  9. ↑ Życie jak ze złota. Fragmenty nieopublikowanej biografii Horsta Eckerta, czyli Janoscha (Polish), Gazeta Wyborcza Katowice July 1, 2005.
  10. ↑ Reinhold Michels: Stoiber attacks artist Janosch. In: rp-online.de. June 9, 2007, accessed June 24, 2014 .
  11. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Interview Connection Verlag ) without date and title@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.connection.de
  12. ↑ Bartosz T. Wielinski: Mów mi Janosz, jestem Ślązakiem. In: wyborcza.pl. Gazeta Wyborcza , June 16, 2005, accessed March 26, 2016 (Polish).
  13. ↑ Piotr Hnatyszyn: zabrzanie Znani. In: wyborcza.pl. Gazeta Wyborcza , October 16, 2006, accessed March 26, 2016 (Polish).
  14. ↑ Angela Bajorek, Who needs almost nothing, has everything: Janosch - the biography , Ullstein hardcover (February 26, 2016), ISBN 3-550-08125-1
  15. ↑ Janosch: "Grüß Gott, Herr Stoiber!" In: hpd.de. Humanist Press Service , June 14, 2007, accessed June 24, 2014 .
  16. ^ A b Philipp Zieger: Janosch . In: Südkurier of May 13, 2009.
  17. ↑ Janosch in the LN interview: "Scheiß Tigerente" ( Memento from April 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Lübecker Nachrichten. April 17, 2010.
  18. ↑ Tillmann Prüfer: Where have you been all this time, Mr. Janosch? In: zeit.de. Die Zeit , July 26, 2013, accessed on June 24, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Janosch finishes column in "Zeit-Magazin" orf.at, November 21, 2019, accessed November 21, 2019.
  20. ↑ Angela Bajorek: Whoever needs almost nothing has everything Janosch - the biography . Ullstein, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8437-1323-8 , pp. 183 ( Preview in Google Book Search).
  21. ↑ Gold / platinum database, accessed on January 21, 2020
  22. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  23. ↑ grundschule-augustfehn.de ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 16, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grundschule-augustfehn.de
personal data
SURNAME Janosch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eckert, Horst (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German children's book author, draftsman and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Hindenburg / Upper Silesia