Klaus Pielert

Klaus Pielert (born April 8, 1922 in Essen ; † October 14, 2015 in Preetz ) was a German cartoonist and press illustrator . His signature was pi .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1940, Pielert was a soldier until the end of the war; he was wounded in Russia and suffered a leg amputation. From 1946 to 1947 he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Pielert was married to Elisabeth Langer (born October 25, 1922) since 1948, who died on May 26, 1976. Their daughter was born on December 23, 1949. Pielert lived in Düsseldorf until 2008, then in Preetz (Plön district), where he died on October 14, 2015 at the age of 93. In 1947 he published his first comic book in the post-war period with Boom makes the race . From 1948 to 1961 he worked for the Neue Ruhr Zeitung and the Rhein-Echo in Essen. This was followed by longer positions at the industrial courier (from 1957) and at the Handelsblatt (from 1970) in Düsseldorf. From 1961 to 2000 he also worked for the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in Essen and from 1962 to 2000 for the Kölner Stadtanzeiger . In 2002, the cartoonist Dieter Hanitzsch gave a laudation in honor of Pielert at the House of History in Bonn, to which Pielert left his entire work while still alive.

Awards

1965: 1st Jusos prize for the best caricature for the 1965 federal election
1969: Theodor Wolff Prize

literature

Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. 45th edition 2006/2007, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2006, ISBN 978-3-7950-2042-2 , p. 1015.

Web links

Klaus Pielert in the caricature gallery of the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany

Individual evidence

^ [1] Website of the House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany, accessed on January 9, 2016
^ [2] Website of the House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany, accessed on January 9, 2016
↑ Christoph Studt: "no-mans land". The caricature as a subject of scientific research . In: Historisch-Politische Mitteilungen , Volume 15 (2008), pp. 63–80.

personal data
SURNAME	Pielert, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German cartoonist and press illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	April 8, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	eat
DATE OF DEATH	October 14, 2015
Place of death	Preetz

[1] [1] Website of the House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany, accessed on January 9, 2016

[2] [2] Website of the House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany, accessed on January 9, 2016

[3] Christoph Studt: "no-mans land". The caricature as a subject of scientific research . In: Historisch-Politische Mitteilungen , Volume 15 (2008), pp. 63–80.