Oskar (draftsman)

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Oskar draws at the summer party of the Federal Chancellery, 1970

Oskar , bourgeois Hans Bierbrauer (born February 24, 1922 in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen ; † July 3, 2006 in Eutin ), was a German draftsman , caricaturist and painter .

Life

Born as the son of a working-class family, Bierbrauer completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer and also attended evening grammar school . He then began studying at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin , which he had to interrupt because he was called up during the Second World War , but then continued at Mertien in Berlin. In February 1945 he married Annemarie Krug, with whom he had a daughter.

During the Berlin blockade in 1948, Hans Bierbrauer began drawing political caricatures for various Berlin daily newspapers. The Berliners liked his caricatures and found them "cheeky like Oskar". This expression gave birth to Bierbrauer's stage name Oskar .

From 1951 he worked as a political cartoonist for the Berliner Anzeiger and the Berliner Morgenpost . The latter published an Oscar cartoon daily until 1988. In total, Hans Bierbrauer drew over 18,000 caricatures for the daily press.

Oskar's grave in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf

In 1952 he appeared for the first time on television, first on the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation (inter alia in Die current Schaubude and as "Meinungspinsel"), later on the newly established broadcaster Free Berlin ( Berliner Abendschau ) .

Known nationwide Hans brewer was in 1971 for his appearances as a caricaturist in Hans Rosenthal television show Dalli Dalli , when he starting a caricature anfertigte a candidate from a number of a picture puzzle or in profile by means of a projected shadow crack within a limited time.

Hans Bierbrauer, who had signed all previous Federal Chancellors , lived in Schleswig-Holstein and Berlin. In the last few years he devoted himself more to oil and watercolor painting .

Hans Bierbrauer was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 1980 and the Cross of Merit First Class in 1997.

He was a member of the Olaf Gulbransson Society and the Heinrich Heine Society .

Bierbrauer was buried in the forest cemetery Zehlendorf in Berlin-Nikolassee .

Web links

Commons : Hans Bierbrauer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ About the person: Hans Bierbrauer ("Oskar") . In: Peter von Rüden, Hans-Ulrich Wagner (Ed.): Born from the time radio. The television work at NWDR Berlin 1950–1953 (=  Northwest German Hefts on Radio History ). Issue 1. Verlag Hans-Bredow-Institut, August 2003, ISSN  1612-5304 , p. 27 ( hans-bredow-institut.de [accessed on February 21, 2013]).
  2. ↑ knerger.de: Oskar's grave
personal data
SURNAME Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bierbrauer, Hans (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German caricaturist, draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Gesundbrunnen
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 2006
Place of death Eutin