Philip Tägert

Philip Tägert at the International Culture Exchange in Freiburg 2012

"Fil" on stage at the Comedy Arts Festival in Moers (August 2012)

Philip Tägert (born September 1, 1966 in the Berlin district of Tegel ; artist name Fil, formerly also the shy Phil , Fil the Shrill or the schaue FIL ) is a German comic artist and entertainer .

Life

Fil lives and works in Berlin, he grew up in the Märkisches Viertel . At fourteen he published his first comics and drawings in the Berlin city magazine zitty . After a discontinued training as a painter , Fil concentrated mainly on his work as a draftsman. However, he is at least as successful as a stage humorist. Fil strips appear regularly in zitty and jungle world .

The best known are Fils Comics about the two sub-proletarians Dieter Kolenda and Andreas Stullkowski from the Märkisches Viertel, which appeared in authentic Berlin dialect under the title Didi & Stulle every two weeks from 1997 to 2015 as a one-page magazine in zitty .

Since the mid-1990s, Fil has also appeared as a stage humorist .

Trivia

Like Tom, Fil worked for a while at the till at the Berlin comic book store “Grober Unfug”.

In particular, Fil's early works, measured against their time, did not always and everyone as satire and instead became the subject of outraged criticism. At the time, the minds of a section of the Zitty readers who suspected that they were deliberately discriminating against the one-pager Frau Henkel and Frau Schmuhl heated up .

Fil's idea of publishing one of his Didi-und-Stulle notebooks in an additional, so-called economy version, which parodies their own work with simplified drawings and modified jokes , was so popular with the band Die Ärzte that they also used this strategy for the album Jazz is applied differently . A version of the album, greatly simplified in terms of artwork and production, was sold at concerts and contains the note on the cover: "The 'Economy' principle is stolen from Fil".

Farin Urlaub is a big fan of Didi & Stulle, as you can see in the FAQ on his homepage. Fil also designed “Krümel”, a little doll that Farin Urlaub used for a video series called “Samples for Happiness” on his homepage, as can be seen from the credits of one of the videos. Due to the great popularity with the fans, a small dogma film with the title “Krümels Incredible Adventure” was produced along with its own soundtrack; this was also available for free download on the site.

Fil appeared again in the summer of 2007 at the Munich comic festival and took part in the competition for the independent comic prize with Didi & Stulle .

Fil's sister Julia Tägert also draws comics, partly in collaboration with Andreas Michalke .

Works

comics

Necromantic - the comedy . Jörg Buttgereit , Berlin 1990
The funniest commix from Phil . Zitty-Verlag, Berlin 1990 (extended new edition 1998 by Reprodukt, Berlin)
Pavel Tropotkin. First book . Opossum Verlag, Berlin 1991
Nudges and crumbs . Jochen Enterprises , Berlin 1993
The return of seriousness . Jochen Enterprises, Berlin 1994
Always Ultra 1 . Jochen Enterprises, Berlin undated
Always Ultra 2 . Jochen Enterprises, Berlin undated
Always Ultra 3 . Jochen Enterprises, Berlin 1997
Playmo in "The Good and the Ugly" . Moga Mobo / Dino Comics, Berlin 1999
Larry Potter . Leichenpflasternseinenwegverlag, Berlin 2001
Stories from the comic garden (together with Reinhard Kleist , Mawil , Andreas Michalke and Naatz ). Berlin Comix, Berlin 2002
Issue Series devil and guns - adventure for young (together with Andreas Michalke , Mawil , Naatz ). Berlin Comix, Berlin 2003
Allow: Fil . Berlin Comix, Berlin 2004
With ATAK : Der Struwwelpeter : Funny stories and funny pictures freely based on Heinrich Hoffmann . Kein & Aber, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-0369-5260-4
With Klaus Caesar Zehrer : The Kackofant . Klett children's book, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-941411-33-3
Girl world . Zitty Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-922158-78-3
Nudges & Crumbs mega anthology . Reprodukt, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95640-202-9

Didi & Stulle

Didi & Stulle 1 - One in . Reprodukt , Berlin 1998
Didi & Stulle 2 - Hell bells . Reprodukt, Berlin 1999
Didi & Stulle 3 - They called him Didi & Stulle . Reprodukt, Berlin 2000
Didi & Stulle Economy! 1 - One in . Reprodukt, Berlin 2001 (small-format reprint of the first Didi & Stulle volume, half price, on poorer paper, with simpler drawings and without the punch lines of the original)
Didi & Stulle 4 - Mars terminus . Reprodukt, Berlin 2005
Didi & Stulle 5 - The gallows birds of St. Tropez . Reprodukt, Berlin 2006
Didi & Stulle 5 1/2 - In trouble . Reprodukt, Berlin 2006
Didi & Stulle 6 - God's plan . Reprodukt, Berlin 2006
Didi & Stulle 6 1/2 - In a headlock . Reprodukt, Berlin 2007
Didi & Stulle 7 - Didi: No More Mr. Nice Guy . Reprodukt, Berlin 2007
Didi & Stulle 8 - Killed by death . Reprodukt, Berlin 2008
Didi & Stulle 9 - On behalf of the Chancellor . Zitty Verlag, Berlin 2010
Didi & Stulle 10 - At the Olympic Games . Zitty Verlag, Berlin 2011
Didi & Stulle - The Complete Edition . Three volumes with 240, 240 and 256 pages, reprodukt, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-95640-105-3

CDs

Drum & Bass (1999)
Live Against Death (1999)
Pullern while standing (2015)
Live 2016 (Dawn of the Dutt) (2016)
The Fil on the Hill (2018)
FIL: The expertise was significantly higher (2019)

DVD

The Fil & Sharkey Show (2009)

Books

Pulling while standing . rororo, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-23336-4 .
Employee of the month . rororo, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-498-05809-8 .
Words about places: The journeys of FiL . rororo, Hamburg (announced for September 2020).

Awards

1991: "Chauvi of the Year" (awarded by the Equal Opportunities Office of the Berlin SPD parliamentary group)
2011: Goldener Rostock cog puller
2017: PENG! - The Munich comic prize for the comic series " Didi & Stulle "

Web links

Commons : Philip Tägert - Collection of Images

swell

↑ Interviews: Phil Tägert - ox-fanzine.de
↑ Info on Didi and Stulle Economy 1
↑ Brief review of the reading of his book Pullern im Stehn , record hodgepodge of March 5, 2015 on Popshot.over-blog.de, accessed on March 6, 2015.
↑ 'Bang!' - comic award goes to Berlin artist Fil rbb-online from May 28, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Tagert, Philip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fil (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German comic artist and entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 1, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[1] Interviews: Phil Tägert - ox-fanzine.de

[2] Info on Didi and Stulle Economy 1

[popshot05032015-3] Brief review of the reading of his book Pullern im Stehn , record hodgepodge of March 5, 2015 on Popshot.over-blog.de, accessed on March 6, 2015.

[4] 'Bang!' - comic award goes to Berlin artist Fil rbb-online from May 28, 2017.