Louis Rauwolf

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Louis Rauwolf (born April 7, 1929 in Marienbad , Czechoslovakia , † September 12, 2003 in Berlin ) was a German cartoonist .

Life

The grave of Rauwolf in Berlin

Rauwolf came to Berlin with his parents. After the war and his Abitur, he worked briefly as an assistant in the surgical department of the Sonneberg Hospital . This resulted in the desire to study medicine with a specialization as a surgeon (“men's and women's tailor”). But first Rauwolf learned the profession of radio mechanic in Berlin and then worked in the state-owned company RFT . The graphically successful production of a peace banner for his company, which was attached to the Neue Wache Unter den Linden , revealed his talent for drawing and delegated him to the University of Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee , where he studied painting from 1949 to 1952. In early 1952, the satirical magazine Frischer Wind , which was later renamed Eulenspiegel , published the first political caricatures by Rauwolf. He remained a permanent employee there until 1994 and published 7,975 drawings in this magazine alone.

His figures with big noses and a few lines accompanied all the big and small events of that time; with own exhibitions and a. in Berlin , Moscow , Prague , Bratislava , Ostrava , Cairo , Vienna , Budapest as well as in Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Cuba, Mexico and Canada he became known and recognized worldwide.

With the cheeky pencil, Rauwolf also accompanied so-called friendship brigades who were working on the construction of the Druzhba route , the natural gas pipeline between the Soviet Union and the GDR , and published the images.

He published his own books, illustrated almost 40 satirical and serious books by other writers, drew posters and sets for cabarets. Altogether there are around 10,000 cartoon sheets by Rauwolf, the subject matter of which Gabriele Stave described as follows: "Cucumber-nosed regular carpenters, vicious Trabant pilots, cool brats, widows mad as a cake - Otto Normalverbrauch-Ost is reflected in Rauwolf's drawings."

Rauwolf died after a long illness and was buried in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery in the row of artist graves.

Awards

1972 Art Prize of the GDR

Works (excerpts)

Book publications

  • Jokes with and without a beard , 1960
  • Clear to cloudy
  • We have order
  • Forever and 3 days (collection of poems)

Book illustrations

  • Assassination attempt on halibut
  • Credit note
  • And clouds danced in the sky ( Heinz Kahlow , 1980)
  • Mark Brandenburg serenely viewed ( Gabriele Stave )

Exhibitions

“Divided - United” in the Berlin House of History, Dudenstrasse 10: 24 cartoonists have been showing their works on Germany since 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Gabriele Stave: Favorite activity: lazing around - NATO maneuvers and lack of toilet bowls: On the death of the cartoonist Louis Rauwolf . In: Neues Deutschland , September 19, 2003.
  2. ↑ a b c d Hans-Werner Tzschichhold: Louis Rauwolf . In: Eulenspiegel , 49./57. Vol., No. 11/03, ISSN  0423-5975 , p. 6.
  3. ↑ In the period 1954–1993. This puts Rauwolf in second place behind Harri Parschau , who published 8,237 drawings in Eulenspiegel from 1954 to 1991 . In: Eulenspiegel special edition. The years 1980–1989 . Berlin 2004, p. 209.
  4. ↑ Winner of the GDR Art Prize 1972 , In: Neues Deutschland , June 7, 1972, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Rauwolf, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienbad , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 2003
Place of death Berlin