Lona Rietschel
Lona Rietschel (born September 21, 1933 in Reppen , Weststernberg district , † December 19, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German cartoonist .
Lona Rietschel studied fashion graphics and animation with the aim of becoming an animator . However, since the DEFA studio for animated films was relocated to Dresden and Rietschel did not want to leave Berlin , she applied to the comic magazine Mosaik . She was employed in 1960 after the draftsman Nikol Dimitriades went to West Germany . Lona Rietschel quickly became the magazine's most important illustrator. She designed the main characters Dig, Dag and Digedag and secondary characters such as the knight Runkel and the notorious pirate band "Devil Brothers".
When Hannes Hegen left Mosaik in a dispute with the publishing house in 1975 and took his figures, the Digedags, with him, new figures were created. Lothar Dräger invented the names and characters of the Abrafaxe and Lona Rietschel took care of the development of the characters. She remained loyal to the monthly magazine until 1999 and continued to draw her Abrafaxes well into old age. Both the covers of the anthologies and the motifs of the calendar for 2006 come from her hand. Last but not least, Lona Rietschel's timeless design and her drawing skills made mosaic a comic book legend.
In May 2013, Rietschel was awarded the PENG! Prize for her life's work at the Munich Comic Festival .
literature
- Matthias Friske : The story of the 'MOSAIK von Hannes Hegen': A comic legend in the GDR . Lukas-Verlag, Berlin, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-034-4 .
- Mark Lehmstedt: The secret history of the Digedags. The publication and censorship history of the mosaic by Hannes Hegen . Lehmstedt Verlag, Leipzig, 2010, ISBN 978-3-937146-99-7 .
- Klaus D. Schleiter (Eds.) And Lona Rietschel: Lona Rietschel - Pictures of my Life . Steinchen for Steinchen Verlag, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-864620-53-9 .
- Michael F. Scholz : Rietschel, Lona . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Lona Rietschel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lona Rietschel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lona Rietschel . Lambiek (English)
- Lona Rietschel in the Mosapedia
- M. Hüster: Lona Rietschel - Pictures of my Life . Review of the MOSAIK special volume on the "Comic Radio Show" website, June 9, 2013
- Obituary on tagesspiegel.de
- Axel Seitz: comic artist Lona Rietschel died on December 19, 2017 on ndr.de/kultur
Individual evidence
- ↑ The mosaic team mourns Lona Rietschel . abrafaxe.com , December 19, 2017, accessed December 19, 2017
- ↑ Matthias Friske : The story of the "mosaic" by Hannes Hegen. A comic legend in the GDR. Lukas, Berlin 2008, p. 53
- ↑ GDR comic size , FAZ.NET, December 20, 2017, p. 11
- ↑ Sabine Buchwald: Munich Comic Festival 2013 - The time travelers: Lona Rietschel . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 29, 2013, accessed on December 19, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rietschel, Lona |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reppen , Weststernberg District , Brandenburg Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th December 2017 |
| Place of death | Berlin |