Ole Jensen (draftsman)

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Ole Jensen , bourgeois Hans Döpke , (born October 9, 1924 in Berlin ; † July 20, 1977 there ) was a German draftsman and caricaturist . Like Oskar , Ane , Hans Joachim Stenzel and Arne Leihberg , Jensen belonged to the generation of popular post-war cartoonists in West Berlin in the 1950s and 1960s .

Life

Grave of Ole Jensen in the Heidefriedhof in Berlin-Mariendorf

Jensen and his younger sister grew up in simple circumstances. He left middle school without a degree. During the Second World War he served in the Navy in Wilhelmshaven . He inflicted a serious leg injury to himself in order to avoid active military service. He spent the last days of the war in the hospital . He studied graphics at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin , but without completing his training. He developed his talent for portraiture as an autodidact . In the early 1960s he lived for some time with his second wife, a Bolivian , in South America and New York , where he tried in vain to get a contract as a draftsman. His son was born in New York in January 1961. The marriage produced three more daughters. Daughter Nora is an actress. Jensen worked among others in the ZDF telecast Dalli Dalli by Hans Rosenthal and occasionally in the cabaret The porcupines .

He became known to the general public through his appearances on the television show Berliner Abendschau , in which he drew the "head of the week" every Saturday between 1964 and 1977 as a quick draftsman. More than 250 caricatures of prominent personalities appeared in this way for the evening show. His cartoons appeared regularly in the daily press. He was on friendly terms with his colleague Hans Joachim Stenzel , who drew for the Berliner Morgenpost . But unlike him, Jensen never worked permanently for a newspaper. His outstanding talent for expressing their psychological characteristics in the facial features of the people he portrayed earned him great recognition.

In the 1970s, a more critical generation of illustrators followed, focusing on complex political and social issues.

Publications

  • Head of the day, head of the week, heads of time. Staneck Verlag, Berlin 1965.

literature

  • Hans Joachim Stenzel, bright lines, 170 years of humor in the forest of leaves, Ullstein Verlag Berlin , undated , pp. 104-108.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ole Jensen died . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , July 22, 1977, p. 2
  2. ↑ 50 years of evening show. The anniversary exhibition.
  3. ^ The Berlin caricaturist Ole Jensen, an incorruptible pencil portrait specialist , died, Berliner Morgenpost, July 22, 1977, p. 16
personal data
SURNAME Jensen, Ole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Döpke, Hans (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th July 1977
Place of death Berlin , Germany