Jean Plantureux

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Jean Plantureux (born March 23, 1951 in Paris ) is one of the most famous political cartoonists in France . Under the artist name Plantu , he has worked for the daily Le Monde since 1972 and for the weekly L'Express since 1991 .

Life

After graduating from Lycée Henri IV , he first studied medicine for two years and then moved to the École Saint-Luc in Brussels in 1971 to take courses in drawing. On October 1, 1972, he was able to publish his first cartoon in the daily newspaper Le Monde . In 1974 Le Monde diplomatique followed , where he took up third world issues in a critical manner .

Every working day Le Monde prints one of its cartoons on current political events in France. One of the hallmarks, usually in the lower right corner of the leaf, is an observing mouse. In 2000 he celebrated the 30th anniversary of his collaboration with Le Monde , for which he had drawn 15,000 caricatures by then.

Since moving to the Le Monde editorial office in the south of Paris belongs Plantu the Paris cityscape. His drawing of a dove of peace with an olive branch in its beak, the wings of which are pages from Le Monde , adorns the large facade of the building on Boulevard Auguste Blanqui.

At the beginning of September 2013, Plantu made international headlines because he was sued by the arch-conservative Catholic organization against racism and for respect for French and Christian identity (Agrif) for “inciting hatred and religious discrimination”. In March 2010, Plantu published a caricature on the abuse scandals in the Catholic Church on his website under the heading “Pedophilia: The Pope takes a position” , which was then taken over and printed by the daily Le Monde . The caricature shows Pope Benedict XVI. during anal intercourse with a child. The date for the cartoon trial was set for July 1, 2014. Plantureux was acquitted on September 30, 2014, and the court costs were imposed on the complainants.

Awards

  • 1988: Prix ​​Mumm for Gordji chez les juges
  • 1989: Prix ​​de l'humor noir
  • 1996: Premi Internacional d'Humor Gat Perich

Works

  • Plantu, Klaus Stuttmann , Ioan Cozacu and others a., Walther Fekl (Ed.): Paarlauf / Pas de deux. Franco-German relations in political caricature / Les relations franco-allemandes dans le dessin de presse. Schaltzeit Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-941362-28-4 .
  • Andreas Bahr, Walther Fekl, Thomas Serrier (eds.): Weimar to the power of three - the Weimar triangle : Germany, Poland and France in political caricature. The “Weimar neighbors” from the point of view of Klaus Stuttmann (D), Henryk Sawka (PL) and Plantu (F). Schaltzeit Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-941362-19-2 , in three languages: German, Polish and French.
  • Plantu, Walther Fekl (Ed.): Drôle de peuple - Funny people! Dessins sur l'Allemagne - Political caricatures about Germany. Schaltzeit Verlag , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941362-11-6 .
  • Plantu: Tete de Gondole. Seuil , Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-02-103477-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Caricature dispute in France: More suggestive than the church would like, Tagesspiegel of September 4, 2013: http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comics/karikaturenstreit-in-frankreich-anzueglicher-als-der-kirche-lieb- is / 8739456.html
  2. ^ Damien Wanner: Plantu 1 - Intégristes 0 , arte , September 30, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Plantureux, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plantu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris