Ralf Alex Fichtner

Ralf Alex Fichtner (born May 31, 1952 in Aue (Saxony) ) is a German caricaturist , cartoonist , illustrator, painter and author .

Life

Fichtner, who comes from the district town of Aue in the Saxon Ore Mountains , attended the Bertolt Brecht Extended Secondary School in Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. , where he graduated from high school and now lives as a freelance artist.

After his successes abroad, his works appeared for the first time in 1980 in the GDR satire magazine Eulenspiegel , which he labeled with the RAF sign , which soon caused a sensation, not just among the GDR security operations. In 1984 he became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR , to which he belonged until its dissolution.

In 1988 Fichtner ventured into self-employment as a freelance artist. Since that time he has designed around 30 personal exhibitions. Many of his works also appeared in the high-circulation daily newspaper Freie Presse . He is not only active as a caricaturist and painter, but also as an illustrator and author, especially of children's and crime literature.

Works (selection)

• (with Manfred Blechschmidt ): Schwarzenberg, I praise you. Walking through a city , Schwarzenberg, 1988
• Showcase of horror [Schauergeschichten], Chemnitz, Phillis-Verlag, 2006.
• ... and give a shit on the People's Army. I serve the German Democratic Republic , Annaberg-Buchholz, ERZ.art agency, 2012.
• "Goldsmith Fabian" with drawings by RAF for video by "Neue Impulse eV"

Awards

• 1995 1st prize at the Hercules Club competition in Dresden
• 2000 Main prize at the international cartoon competition of the Goethe Institute for the Expo 2000 in Hanover
• 2002 Special prize at the Remembering 9/11 exhibition in Kyoto

Web links

• Entry at the Syndikat - authors' group of German-language crime literature
• Literature by and about Ralf Alex Fichtner in the Saxon Bibliography
• Short biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry at the Syndikat - authors' group of German-language crime literature