Josef Gottscheber

Josef “Pepsch” Gottscheber (* 1946 in Attendorf- Schadendorfberg ( Graz-Umgebung district , Austria )) is an Austrian political cartoonist .

life and work

Josef Gottscheber grew up in Graz and studied photography and graphics at the HTBLVA Graz-Ortweinschule . He has been working as a freelance cartoonist since 1974 . His first work appeared in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , for which he still draws today. His cartoons and illustrations also appear in other German daily newspapers, Die Zeit , Stern , Spiegel , the Wiener Die Presse and in the news magazine Time . His drawings have been shown in exhibitions in Europe and Argentina.

Gottscheber lives and works alternately in the Spanish artist village of Cadaqués and in Munich.

Own works

• Pepsch Gottscheber's dream journeys, 1976
• Melotte the cat, 1977
• Stay tuned, 1978
• Hand strokes, 1981
• Always close to the breakthrough, 1986
• The genes strike back, 1989

Literature about Gottscheber

• Britta Frenz: Pointed out: In the workshop of the cartoonists: Photographs and interviews by Britta Frenz with Franziska Becker, FW Bernstein, Robert Gernhard, Horst Haitzinger, Ernst Maria Lang, Marie Marcks, Bernd Pfarr, FK Waechter and many more , Munich: Knesebeck Verlag, 2004 , ISBN 3-89660-229-2 .

Awards

• 1980: Thomas Nast Prize from the Thomas Nast Foundation Landau e. V.
• 2007: German Prize for Political Caricature , 2nd place

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Herbert Päge: Caricatures in the newspaper: committed photo journalism or opportunistic decorative element? , Aachen: Shaker Media, 2007, p. 260, para. 2.1.5 Considerations on the content of caricatures, fn. 3.
2. ^ Portrait on the occasion of the award of the German Prize for Political Caricature.
3. ↑ Olaf Cless (Red.): German Studies : Caricatures Against Right- Wing Violence , Düsseldorf: Fiftyfifty, 2002, ISBN 3-9807400-3-X , p. 96.

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef Gottscheber in the catalog of the German National Library