Otto Schendel

Otto Schendel (born September 2, 1888 in Hanover ; † December 14, 1943 there ) was a German illustrator , advertising and comic strip artist .

life and work

In 1911 Schendel married Emma Linke from Düren , with whom he had two sons, the younger of whom died shortly after giving birth. One of Schendel's first newspaper publications, whose job title is listed in the register as a painter , is documented as early as 1908 with a drawing for the Funny Hanoverian , a supplement to the Hanoverian Gazette . In the following years, he created comics, joke drawings and cover pictures for the magazine The cozy Saxon published by the Leipzig publisher A. Bergmann or, after its renaming, The Funny Saxon . In 1924 Schendel succeeded in joining the tire manufacturer Continental . For this he created the figure of "Mr. Conti", a cigar smoking tire with face, arms and legs, which was published in the company magazine Echo Continental . He also created the advertising books Der Schwarze and Mit Ottokar through thick and thin for the company . . In 1930 the Leipzig publisher A. Bergmann published his book Kuddelmuddel . For the company Dr. Oetker drew Schendel's advertising book Der Fund im Walde , which appeared around 1939. In 1941 the Weimar Alexander Duncker Verlag published his best-known work, Die heilige Plutokrazia , in which the enemy images were caricatured in the sense of National Socialist propaganda and which was included in the list of literature to be segregated after the war in the GDR .

Schendel, who last lived in Gehrden , succumbed to kidney disease in a Hanover hospital in December 1943.

literature

• Eckart Sackmann : Otto Schendel . In: Eckart Sackmann (Ed.): Deutsche Comicforschung 2012 . comicplus +, Hildesheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-89474-218-8 , pp. 36-55.