Thomas Plaßmann

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Thomas Plaßmann (* 1960 in Essen ) is a German cartoonist and caricaturist .

Biography and personal information

After graduating from high school, Plaßmann studied history and German and completed training as a carpenter. He has been a freelance draftsman since 1987. Plaßmann is married and has three children.

Publicity and dissemination

Plaßmann draws cartoons or caricatures for daily newspapers. He publishes regularly in the Frankfurter Rundschau , the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , the Neue Ruhr Zeitung , the Berliner Zeitung , in the church newspapers of the Diocese of Speyer ( the pilgrims ) and the Diocese of Trier ( Paulinus - weekly newspaper in the Diocese of Trier ) as well as in the Werdener Nachrichten . He also publishes in magazines, specialist publications and books.

Published books

(a selection - illustrations in many other books)

  • Cartoon food. City history in cartoons (1986)
  • Günter - keep your distance! (1993)
  • Cartoons for lawyers , with Claus-Wilhelm Kühnhold (1995, Lappan-Verlag, Oldenburg)
  • For a lifetime (1999, Nest-Verlag, Frankfurt)
  • Politics is fun (2000, Nest-Verlag, Frankfurt)
  • See you next Sunday! (2001, Herder-Verlag, Freiburg)
  • Please follow! New cartoons about God and the world (2004, Herder-Verlag, Freiburg)
  • The Lord gives his own in their sleep. 33 Bible cartoons (2006, Herder-Verlag, Freiburg)
  • together with Ewald Frie (text): The chocolate problem. The constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia tells young people , Greven, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7743-0433-8 .
  • Cheers election time! The best and the best from the Versquemer album. Caricatures by NEL , Thomas Plaßmann, Heiko Sakurai and Klaus Stuttmann . With a foreword by Miriam Hollstein , Schaltzeit Verlag , Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-9413-6230-7 .
  • I don't believe that now! - Cartoons from above (2016, Camino Verlag)

Awards

  • 1993: Audience Award of the Köpenick Caricature Summer
  • 1994: Medal of the Hürriyet Foundation at the International Hürriyet Cartoon Competition
  • 1995: 3rd prize in the caricature competition of the Frankfurter Rundschau on the subject of "Europe 2000"
  • 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005 Awards in the context of the German Prize for the political cartoon " With a pointed pen "
  • 1998: Signal Insurance Caricature Award
  • 1999: Awarded the top pen of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV)
  • 2000: Caricature Prize of the City of Stuttgart
  • 2002: Award Rückblende 2001 from the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV) with the 2nd prize for the best caricature
  • 2015: 3rd prize in the caricature category at the flashback 2014
  • 2019: Audience Award Rückblende 2018 for a drawing with an AfD theme

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paulinus
  2. ^ Prize of the German newspapers: This is how caricature must be , by Andreas Platthaus
  3. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Kultur & Medien from February 23, 2019: KStA cartoonist awarded , accessed on February 24, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Plaßmann, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartoonist and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH eat