Thomas Schmitt (artist)
Thomas Schmitt (* 1951 in Berlin ) is a German comic artist and musician .
The son of the cartoonist Erich Schmitt studied graphics and then worked as a retoucher in East Berlin . Together with Detlef Bruno Melzer and Herbert Treichel, Schmitt founded the group MTS in 1973 , of which he is a singer and songwriter.
Together with his brother Ulrich Sturm, he created the potato-shaped comic characters " Matufflis ", which appeared in four series in the NBI between 1976 and 1988 and were also published in book form.
Schmitt has appeared on children's television as Tom's quick draftsman since 1976. At first he worked on television in the GDR a . a. in the show 1-2-3 Allerlei , later on MDR and ARD in eene meene mopel , in the ORB-Club as well as in the Kinderzeit broadcast on ORB , SFB and N3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Schmitt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Interview with Schmitt on ddr-comics.de
- www.gruppe-mts.de
- Courage, drive and beauty - the comedian Thomas Schmitt. Article in the Friedrichshain Chronicle ( Memento from February 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Schmitt, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German comic artist and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |