Mirko Szewczuk
Mirko Szewczuk , real name Wolodymyr Szewczuk , (born September 20, 1919 in Vienna , † May 31, 1957 in Hamburg ) was a German cartoonist of Austrian origin.
Life
Szewczuk was born in Vienna in 1919. From 1926 to 1938 he attended elementary school and secondary school there. At the age of 20 he became a soldier in 1939 and remained so until the end of World War II . In 1941 he received training as a press draftsman with a propaganda company of the Wehrmacht , passed the editor's examination and an examination as a press draftsman in 1942 , and worked for the cartoon agency Diepolitische Drawing - Interpress .
After the war he studied at the Landeskunstschule Hamburg from 1946 to 1949 and was employed as a cartoonist by the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . From 1949 to 1957, Szewczuk was a cartoonist for the daily newspaper Die Welt , from 1952 until his death in 1957, a television cartoonist for the NWDR and later for the NDR in Hamburg.
Mirko Szewczuk was buried in the Nienstedten cemetery in Hamburg.
Szewczuk was married twice and has three children.
literature
- Matthias Kretschmer: The picture journalist Mirko Szewczuk. A communication history study on life and work, Münster, Hamburg and London 2001.
Web links
- The Federal Archives, New German Newsreel 92/1951. 09 France: cartoonists Francois Lejeune and Mirko Szewczuk. Szewczuk is sitting in the bar with a drawing board and is drawing his colleague Lejeune at the other table.
- The Federal Archives, Neue Deutsche Wochenschau 152/1952. 01 world events: 'Nanu-Rockmann, the spokesman for the NDW very personally? Here?' Well - Szewczuk, the draftsman of the big world, so lonely and alone, here? '
- The Federal Archives, Deutschlandspiegel 5/1955 . 07. cartoonists Jean Effel and Mirko Szewczuk sit in the Hamburg club. Draw each other first, then together:
- The Federal Archives, UFA-Wochenschau 45/1957. In memorian Mirko Szewczuk, caricatures by Szewczuk.
- German Historical Museum. Cartoons and graphics.
- House of History. Caricatures in the exhibition "Divided - United"
- Fernsehmuseum Hamburg caricatures by Mirko Szewczuk
- Literature by and about Mirko Szewczuk in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hamburg personalities short biography
- On the 50th anniversary of the death of the first WELT cartoonist Mirko Szewczuk
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Szewczuk, Mirko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian cartoonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1957 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |