Steffen Butz

Steffen Butz (born January 14, 1964 in Frankenthal (Pfalz) ) is a German cartoonist .

Life

Born on January 14, 1964 in Frankenthal / Pfalz, grew up in Ludwigshafen a. Rh., Has lived in Karlsruhe since 1998. Butz studied art history and archeology from 1986 to 1989 and graphic design from 1991 to 1995. He has been a cartoonist since 1991.

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Cartoons by Steffen Butz were a. a. published in Stern , Journal for Wife, Girlfriend, Do it yourself, Börsenblatt and Laviva. He was best known for his bear cartoons, published by the publishers Fackelträger, Lappan, Eichborn, Korsch, Incognito. For the children's page of the daily newspaper “Die Rheinpfalz” he designed and drawn the figure Nils Nager , a beaver who has since become the newspaper's well-known mascot. He also draws cartoon-like illustrations for the geography school book series Terra by Ernst Klett Verlag , illustrated for Duden school exercise books, for which he developed the character Diego Dachs , and language calendars for Harenberg Verlag . Numerous book illustrations were created on a wide variety of topics, such as B. for the cookbook classic “From the Science of Cooking and the Art of Enjoyment” by Pellegrino Artusi , the life parable “I will always love you” by the successful Canadian author Robert Munsch, or for “Alles Märchen - Insider Unpack”, a fairy tale Persiflage of the former Schleswig-Holstein Prime Minister Heide Simonis. He designed the mascot Fred the flying fox for the new exotic house at the Karlsruhe Zoo .

Awards

In 2008, Butz won first prize at the Stuttgart Marketing GmbH's Stuttgart Award. In 2013 his character Nils Nager received the special prize of the children's jury at the children's media prize of the Federal Agency for Civic Education. In 2015, Butz received first prize at the German Cartoon Prize from Carlsen Verlag and the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Selected collections and albums

• Strong as a bear: cartoons . Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-7716-1564-X .
• Rut or love? . Hanover 1996, ISBN 3-7716-1578-X .
• Hey, great party! . Lappan Verlag , Oldenburg 2002, ISBN 3-8303-3031-6 .
• Rutting season today . Lappan Verlag, Oldenburg 2003, ISBN 3-8303-3078-2 .
• Yes! Scratch me, bite me, give me animal names! Lappan Verlag, Oldenburg 2005, ISBN 3-8303-3110-X .
• Beary relationship happiness . Korsch Verlag, Gilching 2013, ISBN 978-3782791007 .
• About the science of cooking and the art of indulgence . Mary Hahn, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3872874436 .
• All fairy tales !: Insiders unpack . Lutherisches Verlagshaus, Hannover 2013, ISBN 978-3785911266 .
• Wild menopause - cartoons for menopause . Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-8303-6357-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Steffen Butz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Karlsruhe Zoo: Profile of Fred the flying fox