Jean Lessenich
Jean Lessenich (also Jeanne Lessenich , born September 29, 1942 in Remagen ; † May 9, 2017 ) was a German illustrator and author .
life and work
After training as a graphic draftsman, Lessenich studied painting and graphics with Otto Gerster , Anton Wolff and Walter Gleinig at the Cologne Werkschulen from 1959 to 1962 . First she worked as a layout artist, then as an art director in various advertising agencies, including GGK (Düsseldorf) and J. Walter Thompson (Frankfurt). She lived and worked in Waldorf near Bad Breisig .
As an illustrator, she has published in Playboy , Spiegel , Bunten , Zeit magazine and FAZ magazine . Study trips with several longer stays abroad took her to the United States and Japan in particular. From 2003 she took part regularly in exhibitions.
One of the books she has written is her autobiography The Transcendent Woman .
In February 2016 she gave a lecture at the international conference on transsexuality. A social challenge in the conversation between theology and neurosciences at the Goethe University Frankfurt a. M.
Book publications
- Now I am the never tired young deer woman or the Ajilie man . Edition Suhrkamp 1988
- With his teeth on the branch . Self-published in 2004.
- The transcended woman. An autobiography . Giessen 2012, Psychosozial-Verlag
Movie
- 2011: I Am a Women Now (documentary by Michiel van Erp)
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Lessenich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jean Lessenich in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vent 1.3: Land drivers . Website of "kuba - Kunst im Kulturbahnhof Nettersheim", accessed on May 15, 2017.
- ↑ Jean Lessenich: The transcendent woman. An autobiography. lesbenring.de, April 20, 2013, accessed on May 19, 2017
- ↑ G. Schreiber (Ed.), Transsexuality in Theology and Neuroscience. Results, controversies, perspectives. Berlin / Boston 2016. pp. 245–262.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lessenich, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lessenich, Jeanne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German illustrator and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Remagen , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 2017 |