Markus (caricaturist)

Self-portrait: Markus

Jörg Mark-Ingraban von Morgen alias Markus (born May 16, 1928 in Berlin ) is a German cartoonist .

Live and act

Not yet of legal age, von Morgen was drafted for the Second World War as an anti-aircraft helper and soldier. He wrote about this time in his autobiography My Life Among Brown Clowns . After graduating from high school, he studied commercial graphics and painting in Hamburg.

Von Morgen was an advertising man from 1960 to 1968, and most recently as a group leader in an international advertising agency. From 1951 to 1993 he drew socially critical and political caricatures (around 4,000 in total) for Stern , Welt and Zeit , since 1965 exclusively for Stern . He calls his cartoons, in which he likes to appear, storycatures .

Von Morgen has been married to his first marriage since 1953, has three children and three grandchildren and lives in Freiburg im Breisgau . His entire graphic work was donated to the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg in 1996 and archived there.

According to his own statements, Markus speaks many foreign languages, including a. French, Spanish, Danish and Japanese. Some of his drawings contain Japanese characters.

Works

Cartoon books

• Markus - Time-critical drawings (Wegner 1968)
• Versexte Welt (Bärmeier & Nikel 1970)
• Stories that life wrote (Stern-Buch 1978)
• The FRG dossier (Stern-Buch 1980)
• We adapters (Stern-Buch 1982)
• Living with the base (Stern-Buch 1984)
• News from the Banana Republic (Stern-Buch 1986)
• The great Markus (Stern-Buch 1988)
• Fatherland is everywhere (Stern-Buch 1990)
• Markus and the Besserwessis (Stern-Buch 1992)
• Stations of a Republic (Lappan 1994)

Autobiographical books

• My life among brown clowns (Lappan 1995)
• Confessions of a cartoonist (Museum for Art and Crafts Hamburg, 1999)

literature

• Andreas C. Knigge : Comic Lexicon . Ullstein, 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X

Web links

• Literature by and about Markus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Markus - stern Classics