Michael Pammesberger

Michael Pammesberger (2019)

Michael Pammesberger (born September 2, 1965 in Bad Ischl ) is an Austrian cartoonist who has been drawing for the daily newspaper Kurier since 1997 and who drew weekly for the weekly magazine News from spring 2015 to January 2017 .

Career

Michael Pammesberger graduated from the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster and then studied law in Salzburg . He also attended a course with the German cartoonist Marie Marcks at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg . As a prospective lawyer , he completed his court year in Gmunden and Wels . He then worked as a trainee lawyer in his father's law firm in Gmunden. Drawing remained his dominant hobby, which is why, in addition to his work as a lawyer, he has repeatedly published caricatures. The call turned into a profession when the Oberösterreichische Nachrichten published a drawing competition for readers in 1991 on the subject of “Who will be the next Federal President?”. Pammesberger was one of three winners, which brought him 1000  schillings (today around 127 euros after adjusting for purchasing power  ) prize money and a new job. Because the Oberösterreichische Nachrichten commissioned Pammesberger, who lives in Thomas Bernhard's adopted home of Ohlsdorf , with domestic political caricatures, which were so well received by the readership that the “Karikajurist” was soon employed as a full-time caricaturist.

In 1997 Pammesberger switched from the regional Oberösterreichische Nachrichten to the nationwide daily newspaper Kurier , where he succeeded the legendary cartoonist Dieter Zehentmayr , who was hired by Standard at the time . Over the years, Pammesberger has developed his unmistakable style, which has given him a fan base that extends far beyond the Kurier readership. From spring 2015 to January 2017, he also drew in large format and in color for the weekly magazine News.

Michael Pammesberger is married to the ORF journalist Gabi Waldner . He has two sons (Paul and Valentin) from his first marriage.

Award

• 2007: Caricaturist of the year: The trade journal " Der Österreichische Journalist " has named Michael Pammesberger " Caricaturist of the year 2007".
• 2018: Outstanding Artist Award for Caricature and Comics
• 2018: Walther Rode Prize for Michael Pammesberger, awarded by Medienhaus Wien

Works

Cartoons on the web

• Pammesberger's caricatures for the weekly magazine News : Pammesberger 2015.

Anthologies

• Pammesberger 2019: Message Control Ueberreuter , Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-8000-7737-3 .
• Pammesberger 2018: Disregard yourselves! Ueberreuter , Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-8000-7710-6 .
• Pammesberger 2017 - Great again! Ueberreuter, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-8000-7678-9 .
• Pammesberger in the crisis - new cartoons. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-8000-7627-7 .
• There is always something. Courier Edition, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502330-5-6 .
• Excellent! Cartoons. Courier Edition, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-9502330-2-5 .
• Cushioned. Cartoons. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-8000-7035-9 .

Illustrations

• On the trail of the Austrian. Expeditions by an NZZ correspondent , together with Charles Ritterband . Published in 2009 by Böhlau ISBN 978-3-205-78399-2 and NZZ Libro ISBN 978-3-03823-559-0
• Austria - standstill in three-quarter time , together with Charles Ritterband. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-20389-6
• Grant and Grandezza: Marginal notes on Austria , together with Charles E. Ritterband, Ueberreuter, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-8000-7694-9
• I am of the opinion ... - Bruno Kreisky - Proverbs and contradictions , together with Wolfgang Petritsch , Ueberreuter-Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-8000-7722-9

Exhibitions

• Caricature Museum Krems : Michael Pammesberger special show . There is always something! (September 2008 to March 2009).
• Trinkhalle Bad Ischl : Exhibition is always something (June / July 2009).

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Pammesberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Pammesberger: The daily caricatures from page 2 .
• Pammesberger works in the caricature museum . ORF Upper Austria.
• Harald Schulz: cushioned. A satirical review of four black and blue years (September 2004).
• Pammesberger: "I have to come up with something even more absurd than the politicians" Michael Pammesberger in an interview with Birgit Braunrath. Article in the courier , online version of July 29, 2012.
• Michael Pammesberger: There is always something (PDF; 1.0 MB). Article by Thomas Vavrinek, in: BrennNESSEL, issue 54, January 2013, p. 8f.
• Kurier: KURIER cartoonist Michael Pammesberger also draws for the new "News" on Saturdays. . March 12, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "I don't shy away from anything when I draw." OÖN "Karikajurist" Pammesberger mixes a dash of anarchy in his cartoons. Upper Austrian News, July 9, 1992.
2. ↑ Art Minister Gernot Blümel gives outstanding artist awards . OTS announcement of November 20, 2018, accessed November 20, 2018.
3. ↑ Walther Rode Prize awarded to "Kurier" cartoonist Pammesberger - derStandard.at. Retrieved November 25, 2018 .