Klaus Cornfield

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Klaus Cornfield performing with the Orchester Miniature in the Park at the Haldern Pop Festival in Rees 2013

Klaus Cornfield (* 10. September 1964 in Lima / Peru , real name: Klaus Gaffkus ) is a German musician , comic book writer and draftsman , and illustrator . He was best known as the singer and guitarist of the band Throw That Beat in the Garbagecan and as the creator of the comic series Ill Comics . Since 1986 Klaus Gaffkus has been operating under the pseudonym Cornfield , which Iwie Candy X07 and Lotsi Lapislazuli, his bandmates in Throw That Beat in the Garbagecan , came up with for him.

Career

music

In 1986 Cornfield founded the band Throw That Beat in the Garbagecan with Oliver Kolb . The band achieved their greatest popularity in the formation of Klaus Cornfield (vocals, guitar), Oliver "Polli Pollunder" Kolb (guitar, vocals), Lord Ray (bass), Iwie Candy X07 (keyboard, vocals), Lotsi Lapislazuli (vocals, recorder) , Melodica, Glockenspiel) and Alex Sticht (drums, vocals). Cornfield not only played guitar and sang, he also wrote most of the band's lyrics. Cornfield and Lotsi Lapis Lazuli designed the artwork for their releases. The band released numerous records and played over 1000 concerts across Europe, the USA and Japan. In 1997, Throw That Beat in the Garbagecan broke up.

In 1999, Cornfield with Paul Greco, who previously on several albums by the band Chumbawamba had played bass, the band cat . Shortly after founding the band Minky Warhol came to Cat . Cornfield (vocals, guitar) and Warhol (vocals, stylophones, mellotron) were the most consistent members of the band, which has seen numerous line-up changes throughout its history. Cornfield and Warhol wrote the lyrics for the band and designed the publications. The band has released various records and played numerous live concerts.

In 2007, Cornfield founded the "first and only colorful miniature instrument orchestra in the world", Orchester Miniature in the Park (OMP). In addition to Cornfield as the lead singer, over thirty musicians are involved in the project. The orchestra plays live regularly and released an album in 2015.

His latest musical project is the Old Men Group , which Cornfield (guitar) founded in 2018 with Dirk Kretz (bass) and Robert "Bobby" Schätzle (drums). The band gave their debut concert in Berlin at the beginning of 2019, and more live performances followed.

In addition to his engagement in the various bands, Cornfield is involved in various solo and side projects.

comics

Cornfield started drawing comics as a child. His first strips appeared in the comic magazine KiX in the early 1990s . The early releases of his band Throw That Beat in the Garbagecan included comics designed by him. In 1992, Alpha Comic Verlag published a comic album with the story and experiences of Throw That Beat . A similar album about the band The Bates was released by the same publisher. In order to get to know the character of the band and its members and to be able to translate it into a comic, Cornfield accompanied The Bates on a tour. Also to his band cat , he published a book of comic stories, this appeared to some extent in the music magazine Intro . The cat -Heft in 2006 as Best Short Comic at ICOM Independent Comic Price excellent. In the booklets of the German edition of the series Hate (German title: Krass ) by Peter Bagge , second stories by Cornfield appeared regularly.

Cornfield's most famous creation is the Sick Comics series . In 1995 he wrote and drew a first booklet under this title. The protagonists of the stories in the magazine were clearly Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, whom Cornfield plunged in the most extreme satirical escalation into a remote counterworld of excessive sex, violence and drug excesses. Due to the threat of legal consequences from the Disney group, the issue was initially unpublished. However, since the stories met with an enthusiastic response in Cornfield's private environment, he decided to develop the concept further. He developed his own anthropomorphic animal characters for the series, including his most popular characters Fou-Fou and Haha.

Fou-Fou and Haha are extremely cute little bears who work as comic editors. They always dream of publishing “beautiful” comics, but are forced to publish sick comics , as only these are bought by the readership. Ha Ha and especially Fou Fou are very sad about this and keep pleading with the readers not to read the "bad stories". In the stark contrast between the cuteness of these two, who live in an idyll of cocoa and jam rolls, to the abysmal perversions in which the other characters of the stories indulge, lies a characteristic of the Cornfield style.

The sick Comics directed with their explicit content at an adult audience. "In the cutest style of classic children's comics, Cornfield shows every imaginable perversion and exhausts it," writes Mikki Sixx from Turbo Radio , and the "brutal satire" includes the "crudest, nastiest, sickest and dirtiest" comics that have ever appeared in Germany . Timur Vernes from Spiegel Online describes the stories of the sick comics as "an absurd amount of concentrated filth" in which "people fuck, piss, shit without stopping" and "Cornfield shows what unrestrainedness really means". The comics are "nothing less than a limitless imposition", the "whole sheer madness" but still "terribly good" and "very, very funny". Bela Sobottke from Tagesspiegel attests that the sick comics are far more than “just a string of flat sexisms, pubescent humor and bad taste”, but that “someone of humanity has looked closely at their bloody fingers” and Cornfield has “all the cruelties and absorbed the ambiguous morality of society and held up the ugly mirror ”. For Sobotke, the series is one of the “great classics of German comics” and delivers the “best German underground comics of all time”.

Cornfield published the Sick Comics from 1997 under the label Fou-Fou and Haha Verlag in self-publishing and from issue # 5 from 1998 to 2000 with various comic publishers. Eight issues of the series and an album under the title Ill Comics Extra appeared . The originally unpublished first issue appeared in 2004 as Sick Comics # 0 in a small edition by Staple Press . The tinplate Verlag 2018 published the anthology The collected misery , which in addition to the regularly published issues # 1 to # 8 and patients Comics Extra also previously unreleased Issue # 9 contained. The Hanauer Kleinverlag Violess War published Cornfield's early work from the KiX comics in one issue in 2019.

Occasionally Cornfield writes songs for characters from Ill Comics , which he then takes up as their alter ego, for example the songs Serenade for the character Acne Jürgen or Ich hab ne Uzi for the character Sir Angry , a hip-hop number that Cornfield also has Ferris MC recorded. Songs were also written for Fou-Fou and Haha . Some of these appeared on a CD that was included with the album Fou-Fou and Haha in Paris that was released by Carlsen in 2002 . Cornfield also created animated music videos for some of these songs.

Apart from the sick comics , Cornfield published various comic albums, including two volumes with child-friendly stories about Fou-Fou and Haha . The comics with Fou-Fou and Haha appeared in over 200 episodes from 2001 for several years in the newspaper Junge Welt . Cornfield also presents his comics live at comic readings and several exhibitions throughout Germany were dedicated to the sick comics , for example in 2012 and 2018 at the Erlangen Comic Salon .

Biographical and personal life

Cornfield was born in Lima, Peru, the son of a sewing machine dealer and the daughter of a coffee plantation owner. He started school in the Netherlands. The family moved to Germany, first to Cologne, then to Fürth. In Germany he dropped out of school and refused to do military service. Cornfield spent his youth in Fürth, then lived temporarily with Thomas D on an alternative farm in the Eifel before moving to Berlin in 2004. He makes a living with illustrations for children's books, which he makes under a pseudonym. Cornfield lives and works in Berlin.

Publications

comics

Ill comics

  • 1997 Sick Comics # 1 (Fou-Fou + Ha Ha Verlag, Fürth) Reprint 1999, Jochen Enterprises, Berlin, ISBN 3-930486-74-1
  • 1997 Sick Comics # 2 (Fou-Fou + Ha Ha Verlag, Fürth) Reprint 1999, Jochen Enterprises, Berlin, ISBN 3-930486-75-X
  • 1998 Sick Comics # 3 (Fou-Fou + Ha Ha Verlag, Fürth)
  • 1998 Sick Comics # 4 (Fou-Fou + Ha Ha Verlag, Fürth)
  • 1998 Sick Comics Extra (Totenkopf Verlag, Munich) ISBN 978-3-9805590-0-3
  • 1999 Sick Comics # 5 (Jochen Enterprises, Berlin) ISBN 3-930486-78-4
  • 1999 Sick Comics # 6 (Jochen Enterprises, Berlin) ISBN 3-930486-79-2
  • 2000 Sick Comics # 7 (Jochen Enterprises, Berlin) ISBN 3-930486-92-X
  • 2000 Sick Comics # 8 (Black Tower, Weimar)
  • 2014 Sick Comics # 0 (Staple Press, Berlin)
  • 2014 Sick Comics # 0,0 (Staple Press, Berlin) English language edition of Sick Comics # 0 , part 1
  • 2014 Sick Comics # 0.5 (Staple Press, Berlin) English language edition of Sick Comics # 0 , part 2
  • 2018 Sick Comics - Das Gesammelte Elend (Weissblech Comics, Schönwalde) ISBN 978-3-86959-058-5

Other comics

Contributions to anthologies

  • 1991 depends on women, everything pushes towards women . In: KiX # 8 (Kix Multimedia, Hanau)
  • 1991 Captain Cornfield in: The Last Battle . In: KiX # 9 (Kix Multimedia, Hanau)
  • 1992 Theo the funny underground conductor. In: KiX # 10 (Kix Multimedia, Hanau)
  • 1992 Willie is my very best friend . In: KiX # 12 (Kix Multimedia, Hanau)
  • 1992 The Two Doowies . In: KiX # 13 (Kix Multimedia, Hanau)
  • 1992 Uncle Günther in “Der Kinderschreck” . In: KiX special volume # 1 (Kix Multimedia, Hanau)
  • 1998 stinking dog. In: Peter Bagge's Krass # 1 (Jochen Enterprises, Berlin)
  • 1999 Fou-Fou and Haha . In: Peter Bagge's Krass # 2 (Jochen Enterprises, Berlin)
  • 1999 Fou Fou fluffes his pillow . In: Peter Bagge's Krass # 3 (Jochen Enterprises, Berlin)
  • 1999 Fou-Fou and Haha on the road . In: Peter Bagge's Krass # 4 (Jochen Enterprises, Berlin)
  • 1999 Fou-Fou and Haha in deep snow . In: Peter Bagge's Krass # 6 (Jochen Enterprises, Berlin)
  • 1999 shock night . In: Extrem Illustrated # 2 (Extrem Successful Enterprises, Berlin)

Animated music videos about cartoon characters

  • 2002 Fou-Fou and Haha: In Paris
  • 2002 Fou-Fou and Haha: Look Foufi
  • 2010 Acne Jürgen: Serenade

Discography

solo

  • 1995 Comes (Little Teddy Recordings) album
  • 1998 Little Dreams Of Anarchy (Strange Ways Records) album

With Throw That Beat in the Garbagecan

  • 1985 Love Comes and Goes (200 Records) 7 '' EP
  • 1988 Tweng! (September Gurls Records) album
  • 1989 Bang! (September Gurls Records) 7 '' EP
  • 1989 Large Marge Sent Us! (September Gurls Records) album
  • 1991 Not Particularly Silly (Electrola) album
  • 1991 A Choclatbar For Breakfast / Be Friendly (Electrola) 7 '' single
  • 1991 A Kiss From You Each Day / Rockin 'Like Hell (Electrola) 7' 'single
  • 1991 We Were Waiting (Electrola) CD single
  • 1992 Cool (Electrola) album
  • 1992 Having A Laugh (SpinArt Records) 7 '' EP
  • 1992 Over & Over / Pretty Vacan t (Electrola) CD single
  • 1992 I Just Can't Hide It (Electrola) CD single
  • 1993 Chill Out With Throw That Beat in the Garbagecan! (Heaven Records) 7 '' EP
  • 1994 Superstar (Electrola) album
  • 1994 I Won't Give Up (Electrola) 10 '' EP
  • 1994 Sunshine In My Heart / I'm Giving Up (Siesta Records) 7 '' single
  • 1996 Sex Tiger (Spin Records) album
  • 1996 Suburbia (Siesta Records) CD single
  • 1996 Pipi Longstocking / Somebody Come And Play (self-published) 7 '' single

With a cat

  • 2002 Play More Krautpop (self-published) EP
  • 2003 The Girl, The Fame And The Money (Krautpop! Records) 7 '' split single with Locas In Love .
  • 2005 ... from behind! (Zigzag Records) album
  • 2010 You Are My Friends (Zickzack Records) album

With Orchester Miniature In The Park

  • 2015 Songs About The Sun (Rough Trade) album

Klaus Cornfield & Buddy Love

  • 1992 Klaus Cornfield Visits Buddy Love (Blue Records) 7 '' EP
  • 1994 Buddy Love Visits Klaus Cornfield (Teenage Kicks Records) 7 '' EP
  • 1996 Stay Angry! (Teenage Kicks Records) album, as Klaus Kornfeld

Klaus Cornfield & Lotsi Lapis Lazuli

  • 1991 Liitle Tigers (Musical Tragedies) album

Klaus Cornfield & The Creams

  • 1994 The Beautiful End / A Whiter Shade Of Pale (Raffmond Records) 7 '' single

Web links

Commons : Klaus Cornfield  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rouge Ruiz: Throw That Beat in the Garbagecan! In: Cloudberry Cake Proselytism. Interview with Klaus Cornfield, April 1, 2014, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Throw That Beat In The Garbagecan. Interview with the band from Flux FM Radio, September 12, 2014, accessed May 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Paul Grecko. on Discogs, accessed May 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Band biography: Katzen. on Laut.de, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ OMP. Official homepage of the band, accessed May 22, 2019 .
  6. ^ Old Men Group. Band's official Facebook page, accessed May 24, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e Mikki Sixx: Sick Comics with Klaus Cornfield. In: Cultural Broadcasting Archive. Turbo Radio interview, May 17, 2018, accessed May 21, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Klaus Cornfield: Cat . Schwarzer Turm, Hünfeld 2005, p. 33 .
  9. ↑ Best short comic: "Cat" by Klaus Cornfield (Black Tower). Association of comics , 2006, accessed June 13, 2018 .
  10. ↑ a b Bela Sobottke: Forever corrupt. on Tagesspiegel.de, June 26, 2018, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b Timur Vermes: An absurd amount of concentrated dirt. on Spiegel Online, June 20, 2018, accessed May 21, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Klaus Cornfiels. YouTube channel, accessed May 24, 2019 .
  13. ^ Conny Lösch: The Fou-Fou- + Haha-Interview. In: Junge Welt. November 9, 2002, accessed May 24, 2019 .
  14. ↑ 15th International Comic Salon Erlangen 2012. In: Comixene # 114, JNK-Verlag, Berlin 2012, pp. 30, 50, 70; City of Erlangen (Ed.): 18th International Comic Salon Erlangen 2018 , Druckhaus Haspel, Erlangen 2018, p. 32, 48.
  15. ^ Jaja Verlag: Authors. (No longer available online.) Www.jajaverlag.com, 2018, archived from the original on June 13, 2018 ; accessed on June 13, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jajaverlag.com
  16. ↑ Throw That Beat In The Garbage Can! In: Bavarian Broadcasting. Interview with Klaus Cornfield in the show Zündfunk., June 18, 2013, accessed on May 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Cornfield, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaffkus, Klaus (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Lima , Peru