Niels Brodersen

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Niels Brodersen (* 1895 , † 1971 ) was a German graphic artist and editor .

Brodersen worked in the 1920s as an editor for the social democratic Schleswig-Holstein newspaper . In the early 1930s he was a graphic designer for the social democratic weekly magazine Blick in die Zeit .

In the summer of 1927 he was co-initiator of the Children's Republic on the urban estate Gut Seekamp on the west bank of the Kiel Fjord , a tent camp with over 2,000 children from Germany, Denmark, Austria and Czechoslovakia based on an idea of ​​the Children's Friends Movement . Brodersen invented the cartoon character Mieke Meier for the camp newspaper of the Children's Republic . The self-confident girl survived adventures and defied authorities, served the children as a figure of identification and was at the same time an expression of the great self-confidence of the working class children . Until 1933 it was to be found in books and magazines of the Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft der Kinderfreunde . He also illustrated the documentary compiled by Andreas Gayk “The Red Children's Republic. A book by working-class children for working-class children. "

Brodersen's painting "City Councilor Wilhelm Spiegel"

After the Second World War , Brodersen worked for the Kiel city planning office. There he designed the posters for the Kiel Week from 1947 to 1949 , as no financial means were available for an advertisement .

Since 1953, a portrait of Brodersen in the corridor in front of the council chamber in Kiel City Hall has been commemorating the Kiel lawyer Wilhelm Spiegel who was murdered by the Nazis .

literature

  • Karl Rickers: On the exhibition Niels Brodersen and Richard Grune in the Stadtmuseum , in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Kieler Stadtgeschichte, Volume 73 (1988), pp. 123–128.
  • Holger Behling (Red.): Niels Brodersen and Richard Grune - two forgotten artists from Kiel: Exhibition in the Kiel City Museum Warleberger Hof , Kiel 1987.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Heinrich Eppe: The "Child Friends" Movement , in: Heinrich Eppe, Ulrich Herrmann (Ed.): Socialist Youth in the 20th Century , Weinheim 2008, p. 175
  2. ^ Virtual Museum: The "Children's Republic" Seekamp 1927
  3. ↑ Virtual Museum: Mieke Meier from the Seekamp camp newspaper
  4. ↑ Title page and design examples from the book “The Red Children's Republic. A book by working-class children for working-class children ”.
  5. ^ Poster draft "Kiel under construction" by Niels Brodersen for the Kiel Week 1947
  6. ↑ Draft poster ( Memento of the original of May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Niels Brodersen on the Kiel Week 1948 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museen-sh.de
  7. ↑ Working group for research into National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein eV: Information on the stumbling block from Dr. Wilhelm Spiegel (PDF; 222 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Brodersen, Niels
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic designer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
DATE OF DEATH 1971