Joachim Klinger

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Joachim Klinger (born April 18, 1932 in Dortmund ) is a German draftsman and author.

Klinger studied law in Münster and Tübingen, received his doctorate in Tübingen and worked for 30 years - most recently as a senior ministerial advisor - in the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia . As a film advisor for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in the Ministry of Culture - under Minister Hans Schwier - he played a key role in creating today's Film Museum in Düsseldorf from what was then the Film Institute .

He works artistically as a painter, draftsman, caricaturist and book illustrator and writes poetry. He provides his volumes of poetry with his own illustrations, and he also illustrates works by other authors at Grupello Verlag . Klinger lived in Hilden (Rhineland) for more than forty years , he now lives in Berlin . The Wilhelm Fabry Museum in Hilden houses a collection of more than 300 works of caricatures and drawings by Klinger. His caricatures appear regularly in the culture magazine Musenblätter . On his 85th birthday, the Wilhelm Fabry Museum in Hilden organized a monographic exhibition with works by the artist as an homage to his life from March 5 to April 23, 2017.

Works (selection)

  • Trial and drawing - Justice cartoons . Ratingen, Kastellaun, Düsseldorf 1972.
  • Acquittal for the caricature - a plea for "The hunchbacked daughter of the art of drawing". Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-933749-26-3 .
  • In harbor pubs gladly hitting Ringelnatz with Morgenstern . Lyric capers and caricatures. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-933749-76-X .
  • Morgenstern's hangover, Ringelnatzen's penguin. Continued lyric capers and caricatures. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-89978-024-8 .
  • Leg cramp at Waterloo - antics and ballads. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-89978-040-6 .
  • Palmström's handkerchief and Korf's galoshes. Poems with drawings. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-89978-071-0 .
  • Pegasus and winged pig. Poems with drawings. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-89978-120-5 .
  • Art lover . Joachim Klinger, Hilden 2010, ISBN 978-3-940710-13-0 .
  • Book lover . Joachim Klinger, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-928060-65-3 .
  • Gem or cult clothing in the Bergamot Museum. Poems and illustrations. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-89978-163-2 .
  • Franz and Franziska - an old couple . Klinger, Berlin 2013.
  • Look at me! Joachim Klinger, Berlin 2014.
  • How are you? Klinger, Berlin 2016.
  • with Werner Biedermann : It's such a thing with feelings ... Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-944427-16-4 .
  • with Werner Biedermann: Life is like a box of chocolates ... Schwerte 2005, ISBN 3-927382-51-5 .
  • Felizitas . (Sketches about a quick-witted child of our time to love.) Joachim Klinger, Berlin 2017.
  • What would we be without animals? Poems and drawings. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-89978-291-2 .
  • Church and caricature . Joachim Klinger, Berlin 2017.
  • With death, with the angel . Joachim Klinger, Berlin 2018.
  • Journey into the Approximate - Lyrische Spätlese, with drawings by the author. 1st edition. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2018, ISBN 978-3-89978-320-9 .
  • The continuation of the fairy tale of Puss in Boots. Text and images. Berlin 2019.
  • I can more than you . Narrative with eleven pictures. Berlin 2019.
  • Big flourish for Wilhelm Busch . Introduction and illustrations to verses by Wilhelm Busch , dedicated to Bruno Kehrein, Grupello Verlag . Berlin 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information on the website of the Grupello publishing house
  2. ↑ duesseldorf.de
  3. ↑ City marketing makes in art In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung . September 24, 2008.
  4. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Krupp: An amusing "Atastrophe" In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung from November 25, 2008.
  5. ^ Frank Becker : Joachim Klinger 80 years. In: Musenblaetter. April 2012.
  6. ↑ musenblaetter.de
  7. ↑ Sandra Abend : Predominantly cheerful - works by Joachim Klinger. Exhibition catalog Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum , Hilden 2017, ISBN 978-3-940710-42-0 .
  8. ↑ Joachim Klinger, Art and Humor, ibid, p. 51.
  9. ↑ There is also a stimulating review by Frank Becker in: Musenblätter - Literature Reviews of September 13, 2018; see in detail at https://www.musenblaetter.de/artikel.php?aid=23079&neu=1
personal data
SURNAME Klinger, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund