Sascha Hommer

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Igort and Sascha Hommer (right) at a book signing by Reprodukt-Verlag, Comic-Salon Erlangen 2016

Sascha Hommer (* 1979 ) is a German comic artist . Until 2005 there are also publications under the pseudonym Pascal D. Bohr . He lives and works in Hamburg.

biography

Sascha Hommer was born in 1979 in the Black Forest and grew up there. Reading Asterix inspired him to draw comics himself. From 2001 he studied at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences , among others with Anke Feuchtenberger , but later dropped out. During his studies he founded the comic anthology Orang together with Arne Bellstorf in 2003 , the tenth and final edition of which was published in 2013. Between 2004 and 2008 he ran the Kiki Post publishing house together with Bellstorf . In 2005 he founded the Hamburg Comic Festival together with Heiner Fischer , for which he still works today. In addition to his artistic projects, Hommer is primarily active in teaching.

He drew short works for various anthologies, including for Klassenfahrt (2005, Reprodukt ), Flitter ( Avant Verlag ) and Panik Elektro ( Schwarzer Turm ) as well as numerous comics for Orang . He has acted several times as an editor for the alternative comic magazine STRAPAZIN . Together with Jan-Frederik Bandel, he edited a dossier on comics for the literary magazine Schreibheft in 2007 , and in 2014 Reprodukt published a collection of Finnish comics compiled together with Kalle Hakola . Several workshop projects led by Hommer resulted in publications, including Redrawing Stories from the Past (2016 and 2019, Kuš! ) And Alphabet des Ankommen (2017, Federal Agency for Civic Education ).

In April 2006 his first book was published by the Berlin publisher Reprodukt. The 128-page comic story, titled as an insect , takes place in a city that is marked by a strange fog. Outside the city there is no fog; the "insects" who have a bad reputation in the city live there. The boy Pascal lives with his parents in the city and because of the fog it remains unrecognized that he is an insect. When his otherness emerges, he is bullied by his classmates, so that he eventually moves to relatives outside the city. Insect was received extremely positively by critics and also appeared in Spain, France and Poland.

In 2009, Reprodukt published the story Vier Augen . The autobiographical book deals with topics such as drug abuse, eating disorders and growing up in the southern German province. Four eyes also appeared in France and Poland.

Together with Jan-Frederik Bandel , Sascha Hommer published a daily comic strip from 2007 to 2009 with the title In the Museum in the Frankfurter Rundschau . The strips were published in anthologies by Reprodukt in 2008 and 2010 and published in French in a single volume in 2017.

In 2011 Reprodukt published a collection of literature adaptations under the title Dri Chinisin . The six adaptations contained are all implementations of short stories by the German author Brigitte Kronauer . Dri quinisine also appeared in France.

In 2012 he illustrated an issue of the Austrian magazine Quart as a guest artist .

In 2014, the third edition of Frontier published a collection of short stories in North America.

In 2016, Reprodukt published the travelogue In China . The book was also published in France.

style

Hommer's drawing style, mostly in black and white, is clear and not very detailed. Dialogues and texts are reduced; most panels manage without any text at all. The figures are drawn innocently, with disproportionately shaped heads. In the Tagesspiegel , Lars von Törne compared Hommer's style with Chris Ware , Chester Brown and Arne Bellstorf. He also said: "At first glance, the style looks cute and cartoon-like, which makes the relentless story all the more moving."

Recurring themes in his works are violence among young people and exclusion. He said in an interview with Die Welt : “Losers are always interesting; one likes to read that others are doing badly. That was the case with Charlie Brown. ” His comics, with their socially critical motifs and their publication by independent publishers, can be classified outside of the mainstream.

Works (selection)

  • Insect , 2006.
  • The new home , 2006.
  • Telephone , 2006.
  • In the museum: The Staircase to Heaven (together with Jan-Frederik Bandel), 2008.
  • Four eyes . 2009
  • In the museum: Archives of Decay (together with Jan-Frederik Bandel), 2010.
  • with Kalle Hakola, translated by Elina Kritzokat : Comic Atlas Finland , Reprodukt Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943143-83-6 .
  • In China . Reprodukt Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95640-057-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Redrawing Stories from the Past. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The alphabet of arrival - The "alphabet of arrival" is a collection of comic reports about a new beginning in a foreign country. Accessed January 6, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ a b Markus Köbnik: A comic with reverberation: Insect. Bayerischer Rundfunk , May 10, 2006, archived from the original on March 5, 2008 ; Retrieved January 26, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Lars von Törne: Three colors: gray. Der Tagesspiegel , September 24, 2006, accessed on January 26, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Portrait at Welt Online
  6. ↑ Review on the ComicRadioShow
personal data
SURNAME Hommer, Sascha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bohr, Pascal D. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1979