Olaf Iversen (cartoonist)

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Olaf Iversen (born August 23, 1902 in Copenhagen , † August 27, 1959 in Munich ) was a Danish - German draftsman , caricaturist , editor and publisher of Simplicissimus .

Life

Born in Copenhagen, Olaf Iversen lived in Munich as a child and still during the German Empire .

After the Second World War , Iversen drew for the magazine Münchner Illustrierte or Illustrierte Revue . From 1954 he brought out a new edition of the satirical weekly Simplicissimus , for which he consulted well-known caricaturists - and provoked conflicts with the authorities of the time.

Olaf Iversen died in 1959 at the age of 57 and was buried in Munich's north cemetery.

Fonts (selection)

  • Lothar Sixt von Arnim (text), Olaf Iversen (ill.): Comedy of errors or “All's well that ends well”. Munich Latest News, Munich [1936?].
  • My good picture book / Olaf Iversen. Hesse & Becker Verlag, Leipzig 1939.
  • Walther Deneke : married 50 years young. A fun guide from the green to the golden wedding / Walther Deneke. With pictures from Olaf Iversen. Hesse & Becker Verlag, Leipzig 1938.
  • Wilhelm Zimmermann: Request for a mild assessment. Cheery experiences from the courtroom / tin. Drawings by Olaf Iversen (= Funny Books Series , Vol. 15). Stephenson, Berlin 1940.
  • Critters of two- and four-legged critters / text and images: Olaf Iversen. 1st - 15th Thousand; P. Hugendubel, Munich 1941.
  • Michael Soltikow : The laughing cloud / Count Michael Alexander. With drawings by Olaf Iversen. Wehrmacht edition, not available for the book trade range. Schlieffen-Verlag, Berlin 1943.
  • My album. 1-10 Thousand; Vandalen-Verlag, Munich 1951.
  • Critters. Completely revised and expanded edition, 40–45. Thousand; Vandalen-Verlag, Munich 1952

Archival material

Archives by and about Olaf Iversen can be found, for example

  • in the Munich City Archives as a file with newspaper articles from the period from 1939 to 1959 under the signature DE-1992-ZA-P-0237-14 addition Iversen, Olaf, 1938–1959 ( file )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Compare the database on the stadtarchiv.muenchen.de site
  2. ↑ a b c d Werner Ebnet: Iversen, Olaf. In: ders .: You lived in Munich. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-744-5 , p. 301 ( preview via Google Books ).
  3. ^ OV : In Memoriam / Olaf Iversen , in: Der Spiegel , issue 36 from 1959 of September 2, 1959; digital version
personal data
SURNAME Iversen, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and illustrator, caricaturist and editor of Simplicissimus
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1959
Place of death Munich