Jens Harder

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Jens Harder (2011)

Jens Harder (* 1970 in Weißwasser ) is a German comic artist and illustrator who has received the Max and Moritz Prize twice for his albums .

life and work

From 1996 to 2002 he studied communication design at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . In 1999 he founded the comic group Monogatari together with fellow students , in whose collective albums he published his own contributions in the following period. He also worked for various newspapers and magazines (including Scheinschlag , Strapazin and Tagesspiegel ).

He published his first book on the French label Éditions de l'An 2 in 2003, as he had not found a German publisher for the ambitious work. The approximately 150-page album with the title Leviathan is a dramatized story about a sperm whale and contains no text except for literary quotations by, for example, Herman Melville and Thomas Hobbes , which are printed in four languages. For this work, Harder was awarded the Max-und-Moritz-Preis as “best German-language comic publication” at the Erlangen Comic Salon in 2004 .

In 2005 he worked for the Goethe-Institut in Tel Aviv on a comic report that was published as part of the Cargo anthology .

His pictures have been exhibited in various German cities as well as in Aix, Basel , Belo Horizonte , Córdoba , Geneva , Jerusalem , Lisbon , Oslo , Paris , Tel Aviv , Zurich and other cities.

In a five-year work 2004–2009, the 352-page album Alpha was created for the French publisher Actes Sud on the Editions de l'an 2 label . It deals with the entire history of evolution up to the appearance of humans. He was supported by the 2007 eoplauen award . The German-language edition was published by Carlsen Verlag in June 2010 . As in 2004, Jens Harder was awarded the Max and Moritz Prize 2010 for his book as "best German-language comic book publication". Before that there was already an exhibition under the title Alpha… Evolutionary Picture Stories with Jens Harder's drawings in the Natural History Museum in Karlsruhe , which was on view from December 3, 2009 to March 7, 2010. Beta Civilizations was published in 2014 . Part 1 , which deals with the history of human civilization up to the birth of Jesus Christ. The second volume of Beta should appear in 2020, and Gamma is still in preparation. In 2011 he also received the Hans Meid Prize for Book Illustration for Alpha .

Reviews

About Alpha and Beta :

“It is the most ambitious comic in the world, and it is made in Berlin: Jens Harder draws the history of mankind from the Big Bang to the present. The artist needed five years for the first volume, "Alpha", which depicts 14 billion years and ends with the appearance of man in the Holocene. Now he is working on "Beta" and has just arrived at the beginning of religion. "

- Evelyn Finger : In the beginning was the sun , in: Die Zeit from December 27, 2012, p. 56.

"Jens Harders" Beta. . . Civilizations »breaks all categories. It's a comic book, a picture book, a history book, a non-fiction book, a fantastic trip. Harder combines natural and cultural sciences, creation myths, anthropology, archeology, history and the human imagination, our dreams and visions in an extraordinary comic adventure about the greatest of all stories, the history of our planet. "

- Christian Gasser : The greatest of all stories in: NZZ June 13, 2014

Web links

Commons : Jens Harder  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Jens Harder at BiblioMonde.com (French)
  2. Award ceremony 2007 - eoplauen Förderpreis ( Memento from January 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. Erlanger Comic Salon 2010: The decisions on the Max & Moritz Awards ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 22, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.graphic-novel.info
  4. a b Christian Gasser: The greatest of all stories in: NZZ June 13, 2014
  5. ^ Comic artist Jens Harder: In the beginning there was the sun