Manfred Bofinger

Manfred Bofinger (1998)

Manfred Bofinger (born October 5, 1941 in Berlin ; † January 8, 2006 there ) was a German graphic artist , caricaturist and cartoonist . He was one of the most important graphic artists in the GDR .

Life

Manfred Bofinger comes from a humble background in Berlin-Mitte. His father was a poster painter, his mother a saleswoman. After finishing school in the Gray Monastery high school, he completed a two-year training course as a typesetter after graduating from high school in 1959. From 1961 until 1968 he worked as a typographer for the satirical magazine Eulenspiegel . Having come to caricature as an autodidact, he has since worked as a freelance graphic artist, cartoonist and book illustrator, still working for Eulenspiegel and regularly for the children's magazine Frösi . He illustrated over 300 books and created picture stories himself, including many for children. He signed his drawings with Bofi .

1963 to 1989 Bofinger was a member of the SED , 1972 to 1989 member of the Association of Journalists of the GDR (VDJ) and 1974 to 1990 of the Association of Visual Artists (VBK). In 1981 he was awarded the GDR Art Prize.

After a brain haemorrhage on December 29, 2004, he was in a vegetative state despite surgery and rehabilitation before he died on January 8, 2006 at the age of 64. Manfred Bofinger lived in Berlin, Alt-Treptow, until his death. He left behind his wife Gabriele and four children. His grave is in the Stralau cemetery and is artistically designed with a white marble figure of a reading child.

Works (selection)

Manfred Bofinger (right) in November 1989

Gravestone for Manfred Bofinger by Matthias Heinz , with the sculpture of a reading girl. On the back a quote from Joachim Ringelnatz

• Renate Holland-Moritz : Graffunda cleans up , story ( illustrations ), Berlin 1969
• Atomino , drawings newly illustrated by Manfred Bofinger , novel by Marcello Argilli , texts translated by Egon Wiszniewsky , Alex-Taschenbücher, Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1979, 170 pp.
• Uwe Kant : The little magician and the big five (illustrations), Berlin 1974.
• Above and below . Children's book publisher, East Berlin 1976, DNB  770155596 .
• I can build . Children's book publisher, East Berlin 1976, DNB  770155618 .
• Bunny three-runner . Children's book publisher, East Berlin 1976, DNB  770213960 (with Gerhard Holtz-Baumert ).
• An excavator is going for a walk . Children's book publisher, East Berlin 1976, DNB  760216568 (with Alfred Könner ).
• Egg mush . Children's book publisher, East Berlin 1976, DNB  770155316 .
• The Tangeltingel . Children's book publisher, East Berlin 1976, DNB  770185053 .
• Red Square and around. From a Puyovka to Moscow . Children's book publisher, East Berlin 1977, DNB  780206797 .
• Paulchen small . Children's book publisher, East Berlin 1977, DNB  780291581 .
• Karl and Karlchen . Children's book publisher, East Berlin 1977, DNB  780280458 .
• That's me . Children's book publisher, East Berlin 1977, DNB  780280563 .
• Ticki guts . Children's book publisher, East Berlin 1978, DNB  790019604 (with Martin Viertel ).
• Son and father Rübesam . Children's book publisher, East Berlin 1978, DNB  790271206 (with Werner Lindemann ).
• Black sleeves, white vests. Cartoons . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, East Berlin 1978, DNB  790400863 .
• Sebastian and the playground . Young World Publishing House, East Berlin 1979, DNB  800321979 (with Helga Talke ).
• Gerhard Holtz-Baumert : Alfons Zitterbacke / Alfons Zitterbacke is in trouble again (new editions)
• Renate Holland-Moritz: The owl in the cinema. Film reviews , (illustrations), Berlin 1981.
• Hiltrud Lind: The world stage. Environmentally friendly limericks from (A) lbacete to (Z) ossen. Eulenspiegel Verlag Berlin
• Christoph Hein : The wild horse under the tiled stove (illustrations), Berlin 1984.
• A tree goes into town , text and illustrations by Bofi, Altberliner Verlag 1985.
• Applesauce in a magic hat - a joke lexicon , text and illustrations by Bofi, Kinderbuchverlag Berlin 1985.
• The apprentice dormitory , Verlag Tribüne Berlin 1986.
• Martin Viertel: Kuckucksgarn (illustrations), Kinderbuchverlag Berlin 1987.
• Einstein with the violin
• Count Tüpo, Lina Tschornaja and the others. For El Lissitzky on his 100th birthday , Verlag Faber & Faber 1991
• Renate Holland-Moritz: Ossis, save the Federal Republic! , Anthology (illustrations), Berlin 1993.
• Renate Holland-Moritz: The owl in the cinema. New film reviews , (illustrations), Berlin 1994.
• The goosebumps book , Eichborn 1994.
• The thick Bofingerbuch , Berlin 1995.
• Paul Maar : Derletterfresser , (illustrations), Oetinger Verlag 1996.
• Renate Holland-Moritz: Smeared and wrapped up. People laughed at this in the GDR during the fifties and sixties , anthology (illustrations), Berlin 1996.
• Renate Holland-Moritz: The con artist. People laughed at this in the GDR during the seventies and eighties , anthology (illustrations), Berlin 1996.
• The crooked spoon. Miniatures of a Childhood , Aufbau-Verl., Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-7466-1591-7
• Elke Heller: It's good that we are so different. Living together in mixed-age groups . (Illustrations), Beltz, Weinheim 2000. 95 pp. ISBN 3-407-62410-7
• Heinrich Hanover : The unfaithful mole (illustrations), Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2000. ISBN 3-351040083
• Dorrit Willumsen : A cat's vacation days . Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-378-00626-9 .
• USLevin: The computer was to blame (illustrations) Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin. ISBN 3-320-02002-1 .
• Erika Berthold: Survival manual for educators (illustrations).
• A fat dog. Stories with Children , Aufbau-Verl., Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-351-02974-8 .
• Manfred Richter: The Schickendietenheimer Tower (illustrations), Wilhelmshorst 2004.
• Hanns Dieter Hüsch : Frieda on earth (illustrations), tvd-Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-926512-69-5 .
• Reinhard Renneberg: Katzenklon, Katzenklon (illustrations), Böklund 2006. ISBN 3-939828-02-5 .
• Manfred Bofinger, A picture book of the German language, Verlag Faber & Faber

Awards

• 1980 Art Prize of the GDR
• 1987 Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin
• 1989 Hans Baltzer Prize
• 1991 Book of the Month for December for Graf Tüpo
• 1969–1993 many most beautiful books and the 100 best posters of the year
• 1994 book of the month for circus confetti
• 1995 Schnabelsteherpreis for The Goose Bumps Book
• 2000 German Caricature Prize from the Saxon newspaper
• 2002 Rahel Varnhagen von Ense Medal
• 2006 Ten special books on Andersentag for When Papa Was Still a Pirate and other flunker stories by Franz Sales Sklenitzka

literature

• Anke Scharnhorst, Ingrid Kirschey-Feix :  Bofinger, Manfred . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Bofinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Manfred Bofinger  in the German Digital Library
• Entry on Manfred Bofinger in Kalliope
• Detailed interview on the career, with his illustrations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrichshainer Chronik: Friedhof am Wasser (this domain has apparently been sold in the meantime)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Title info Verlag Faber & Faber ( Memento of the original dated December 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ book title online; Retrieved January 4, 2010
4. ↑ Review of the unfaithful mole from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung from November 29, 2000
5. ↑ ddr-lexikon.de: Chronicle of the GDR 1980 - May 9th (accessed November 25, 2014)