Stephan Rürup
Stephan Rürup (* 1965 in Bad Oeynhausen ) is a German cartoonist , comic artist and musician.
Life
Rürup graduated from the Evangelisch Stiftisches Gymnasium Gütersloh in 1985 and then did his community service in Gütersloh's Hermann-Geibel-Haus, a care facility for the elderly. He studied visual communication at the Münster University of Applied Sciences . Since 1989 he has published cartoons and comics, including in Kowalski , Titanic , Eulenspiegel and ZITTY .
From 1993 to 1995 three children's books were published, from 1997 to 2000 he was a lecturer for drawing and illustration at the Münster University of Applied Sciences. From 2000 to 2014 Rürup worked as an editor for the satirical magazine Titanic. He draws u. a. for Welt am Sonntag and the IG Metall membership magazine .
He won the renowned German Cartoon Prize in 2018 at the Frankfurt Book Fair for a cartoon about child poverty. The jury decision was unanimous.
Stephan Rürup lives in Münster .
music
From 1992 until its dissolution in 1998/1999, Rürup was the singer of the jazzcore / noise band Porf : During this time four albums were released, the last two on the Troisdorf label bluNoise . In 2005 he founded the band Zimt with the Porf drummer Ronald Hofhüser , renamed ZMT after Carsten Finkenberg left .
Quote
"[S] a figure [remains], with all the exaggeration and physiognomic distortion, at least in the beginning always lovable and close, no matter how brutal or deformed they appear."
Publications (selection)
- 2000: Monster Sunday
- 2003: restart sounds so impersonal! Let's call it a fresh start!
- 2008: Rürup's better world
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2006: Please don't go to bed with the chickens anymore! ( Caricatura Kassel)
Awards
- 1996: 1st prize in the international competition BERLIN CARICATURE SUMMER
- 2008: Bernd Pfarr Special Prize for comic art of the Sondermann Prize
- 2012: German Cartoon Prize, 3rd place
- 2018: German Cartoon Prize, 1st place
Discography (selection)
- With porf
- 1994: Sunny (Costbar)
- 1996: Live (Costbar)
- 1997: Unhappy (BluNoise)
- 1998: earlier than here (BluNoise)
- With cinnamon / ZMT
- 2008: Trauma (Starkton)
- 2012: Special trip (BluNoise)
- 2015: On the other hand (BluNoise)
Web links
- Literature by and about Stephan Rürup in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Stephan Rürup
- http://www.hoeheregewalt.de (blog)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephan Rürup wins German Cartoon Prize 2018 , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on October 12, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rürup, Stephan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cartoonist, comic artist and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Oeynhausen |