Klaus Ensikat

Klaus Ensikat (born January 16, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German graphic artist and illustrator.

Life

After leaving school, Klaus Ensikat trained as a decorator and commercial advertiser. From 1954 to 1958 he studied at the College of Applied Arts in Berlin-Oberschöneweide , worked as a commercial artist until 1960, had a teaching position at the Association of Visual Artists from 1961 to 1962 and was a teacher at the College of Fine Arts in East Berlin until 1965 . Since then he has been living freelance in Berlin. From 1995 to 2002 Ensikat was professor for drawing at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences .

Ensikat's graphics were characterized by "his line art, which was trained on the old German masters". They appeared in GDR magazines such as Das Magazin and Eulenspiegel . In addition to works by Peter Hacks , JRR Tolkien , Mark Twain and others, he mainly illustrated numerous children's books.

family

Klaus Ensikat's brother was the author and actor Peter Ensikat, who died in 2013 .

Honors

Klaus Ensikat's filigree illustrations have received numerous awards.

• 1972: Premio Grafiko at the international children's and youth book fair in Bologna
• 1973: Golden apple at the Illustrator Biennale in Bratislava
• 1975: Gold medal at the KNIGA book fair in Moscow
• 1979: Grand Prix BIB at the Biennale of Illustrators in Bratislava
• 1984: Catalan Prize at the International Exhibition of Children's Books in Barcelona
• 1989: Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig
• 1991: Golden apple at the Illustrator Biennale in Bratislava
• 1992: Premio Grafiko at the international children's and youth book fair in Bologna
• 1992: Troisdorf picture book award
• 1995: German Youth Literature Prize, special prize for his complete work as an illustrator
• 1996: Hans Christian Andersen Prize from the “International Board on Books for Young People” ( IBBY ), the most important international children's book prize, for life's work
• 2007: Thuringian Fairy Tales and Legends Prize “ Ludwig Bechstein ”.
• 2010: Grand Prize of the German Academy for Children's and Young People's Literature
• 2013: Hans Meid Prize for book illustration

A series of classic crime fiction from the publishing house Das Neue Berlin , the cover of which he designed, was named after Klaus Ensikat : the Ensikat series , also known as the gray series .

Works (selection)

Illustrations

• Lothar Kusche : Unromantic fairy tale book . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1962.
• Johann Gottwerth Müller : Siegfried von Lindenberg . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1964.
• Miloš Macourek : The cloud in the circus . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1966.
• Josef Nesvadba : How Captain Nemo died. Fantastic stories . The New Berlin, 1968.
• Gerhard Branstner : Nepomuk. Hinstorff Verlag Rostock, 1969
• JRR Tolkien : The Hobbit ( "The Hobbit or There and Back Again"). Translated from the English by Walter Scherf . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1971 / Georg Bitter Verlag, Recklinghausen 1971, ISBN 3-7903-0133-7 .
• Brain games. Polish aphorisms of the 20th century. Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin, 1972
• Alphonse Daudet : Tartarin from Tarascon. New Life Berlin publishing house, 1971
• Wilhelm Raabe : The geese from Bützow . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-373-00233-8 .
• Denis Diderot : The talkative gems . Roman ("Les bijoux indiscrets"). Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1976.
• Johannes Bobrowski: Literary Climate. Completely new xenias , double execution. Union Verlag Berlin, 1977
• Eighteen graphics for TS Eliot "Old Possum's Cat Book" . Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1979.
• Herman Melville : Taipi. Adventure in the South Seas; Roman ("Typee"). Benziger Verlag, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-545-32159-2 .
• Charles Perrault : Little Tom Thumb and other fairy tales . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-358-00248-9 .
• August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben : Everyone in his own way. Children's songs . Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 1991, ISBN 3-407-80378-8 .
• Edward Lear : The story of the four young children who went around the world ( "The story of the four little children who went round the world"). Altberliner Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-86637-546-8 .
• Brothers Grimm : The Bremen Town Musicians . Altberliner Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-86637-180-2 .
• Peter Hacks : Jules Ratte or learning by yourself makes you smart; a story . Middelhauve, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7876-9396-3 .
• Mark Twain : Tom Sawyer's Adventure . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1996 ( rororo rotfuchs ), ISBN 3-499-20813-X .
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust. Newly told by Barbara Kindermann. Kindermann Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-934029-10-1 .
• Erwin Strittmatter : Santa Claus in the rag box . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-351-04042-3 .
• Max Bolliger : Little happiness & wild world . Lehmittel-Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-03713-086-5 (former title “In a cave on the edge of the forest ...”).
• Alfred Könner : The wedding of the peacock. Based on a Sorbian fairy tale . Altberliner Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86637-493-3 .
• Erwin Strittmatter: Pony Christmas . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-351-04055-5 .
• Stefan Rahmstorf : clouds, wind and weather . Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-8389-0226-5 .
• Wolfgang Korn : The secrets of Troy. Boje Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-414-82340-3 .

exhibition

• Carola Pohlmann (Ed.): Everyone according to their kind. Children's book illustrations by Klaus Ensikat . Reichert, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-89500-004-3 (exhibition catalog for the exhibition of the same name, June 20 - July 29, 1997 in the international youth library )

literature

• Karin Richter: Fairy-tale visual worlds of Klaus Ensikat “Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten” and “Kieselchen”. Models and materials for teaching literature . Schneider-Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler 2007, ISBN 978-3-8340-0180-1
• Short biography for:  Ensikat, Klaus . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Platthaus : Servant of many authors. To the illustrator Klaus Ensikat for his eightieth birthday . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 16, 2017, p. 12.
2. ^ Mareile Oetken: Picture books of the 1990s. Continuity and discontinuity in production and reception . Dissertation, Faculty III Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, 2008, p. 96
3. ^ Karin Richter: Klaus Ensikat . Booklet accompanying the exhibition of the German Academy for Children's and Young Adult Literature, 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Ensikat in the catalog of the German National Library