Peter Wiechmann

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Peter Wiechmann (born October 29, 1939 in Bunzlau , Silesia , † January 11, 2020 ) was a German editor , comic author and translator .

Life

Wiechmann, the son of an editor-in-chief and an editor, fled in 1945 with his family to Eschwege , the birthplace of his mother. After finishing school, he completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter. During his military service Wiechmann worked as a reporter for a soldiers' newspaper. Wiechmann then worked as a freelancer for various newspapers before he switched to Rolf Kauka , where he was initially responsible for the Lupo modern magazine and later established various new magazines, such as Primo magazine , the series Capitan Terror (Esteban Maroto, Ramón Solá, Josep Gual), Andrax ( Jordi Bernet ), Manila (Romero), Kuma (Rafael Mendez) and Dietrich von Bern (Rafael Mendez). This also includes the Sparkasse comic book Knax , which Wiechmann invented in 1974 together with the draftsman Erwin Frick.

After a brief stint at Zack , Wiechmann started his own business around 1978. For the gimmick magazine Yps he developed the series Thomas the Drummer (Josep Gual, Juan Sarompas), Hombre (Rafael Mendez), Ben's Bande (Josep Martí) and Mister Melone (Adolfo Garcia Fernandez). He founded the creative studio Comicon in Munich to produce comics with Spanish illustrators on behalf of publishers. In the 1980s Comicon was relocated to Barcelona.

In 2004 Wiechmann returned to Germany and edited comic books together with Andreas Mergenthaler at Cross Cult , including the Andrax- Werkausgabe (Kauka), Dietrich von Bern and Thomas the drummer . The two-volume edition of Hombre was sold under license to France, Scandinavia, Italy and Greece. A little before this time, Wiechmann wrote his autobiography about his childhood and adolescence, Feuer & Flamme , the illustrated volume of narrative memories are stories (with multicolored linocuts by Klaus Eberlein ) and in 2013 Vagabundos en Camino .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jochen Ecke: Peter Wiechmann (1939–2020): “I went through purgatory”. In: tagesspiegel.de . January 12, 2020, accessed January 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wiechmann, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor, comic author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Bunzlau , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 2020