Kitty gibberish
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| Original title | Kitty gibberish |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 85 minutes |
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| Director | Martina Fluck |
| script | Martina Fluck |
| production | Yucca film production |
| music | Felix Raffel |
| camera | Martina Fluck |
| cut | Stefan Schulze |
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Katzenjammer Kauderwelsch is a German documentary film by Martina Fluck from 2019 . It deals with the life story of the brothers Rudolph and Gus Dirks, who became pioneers of the genre with their comics The Katzenjammer Kids and Latest News from Bugville .
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The director Martina Fluck and the comic artist Tim Eckhorst go in search of traces of the important sons of their town Heide in Schleswig-Holstein, Rudolph and Gus Dirks, who emigrated to Chicago with their family in 1884. The Dirks took with them the tradition of picture stories of Wilhelm Busch and invented speech balloons, onomatopoeic letter sequences and lines of movement and thus became co-founders of modern comics. Fluck and Eckhorst meet famous comic artists such as the 91-year-old Hy Eisman and discover the artists' colony Ogunquit in Maine, where Rudolph had his summer residence until his death in 1968. Descendants of the Dirks provide a possible explanation as to why Gus Dirks voluntarily passed away 66 years before his older brother Rudolph.
The documentary, shot in the style of a road movie, combines real shots with passages drawn by Tim Eckhorst, some of which are created directly in front of the camera.
Production and publication
Katzenjammer Kauderwelsch was produced by Martina Fluck's own company Yucca Filmproduktion and funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture , the Schleswig-Holstein Cultural Foundation , and the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund (Filmwerkstatt Kiel). The film premiered on November 3, 2019 at the 61st Nordic Film Days Lübeck and started a German cinema tour on January 30, 2020, which had to be interrupted for several months in March 2020 due to the corona-related cinema closings.
Web links
- Katzenjammer gibberish at German Documentaries
- Wilfried Hippen: Real crime and Katzenjammer . In: The daily newspaper of October 24, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katzenjammer gibberish press release. In: Yucca Filmproduktion. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
- ^ Funding decision Filmwerkstatt Kiel. October 24, 2019, accessed on August 10, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Ruth Bender: The comic pioneers from Heide . In: Kiel News . 2nd November 2019.
- ↑ Andreas Guballa: The comic pioneer who came from Dithmarschen . In: Norddeutsche Rundschau . January 30, 2020.
- ↑ CANCELED! Katzenjammer gibberish - A comic book pioneer story. February 19, 2020, accessed on August 10, 2020 (German).