Ulf K.

Ulf K. at the Comiciade Aachen 2016

Ulf K. (born Ulf Keyenburg on September 2, 1969 in Oberhausen ) is a German comic artist and illustrator .

Life

Two years after graduating from high school in 1989, Ulf K. began studying communication design with a focus on illustration at the Folkwang University in Essen . During his studies he worked as a freelance comic artist and illustrator for the press and advertising . After a semester abroad in Paris between 1996 and 1997, he moved back to his native Ruhr area . In that year he also founded the self-publisher Ubu Imperator . In 1998 his first comic album, Der Mondgucker and other stories, was published in the Bremen Edition Panel and was sold out within a few months (new edition 2002).

In 2000 Der Exlibris was published for and in cooperation with the Frankfurt Book Fair . The story was published in advance in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Ulf K's comic stories appear in various magazines around the world, including in Germany in Panel and Moga Mobo , in Strapazin in Switzerland , in Lapin in France , in Spoutnik in Canada , in Suuri Kurpitsa in Finland and in the US Top Shelf .

Currently, Ulf K. is primarily devoting himself to writing children's books, such as the Turm! Lamp! in collaboration with Martin Baltscheit , with whom he already worked on Little Mr Paul . These titles were published by Altberliner Verlag .

On April 28, 2009, Ulf K. began a story entitled Beginning after the end in pictures on the last page of the feature pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Since September 17, 2013, stories from Mr. Keuner have followed in the same place from Tuesday to Friday using the shortest stories published by Bertolt Brecht from 1926.

Ulf K. lives with his family in Düsseldorf.

Quotes

“ Ulf K. is the poet of the German comics scene. "

- Stefan Pannor, SPIEGEL-Online.

“ In his 'ex-libris' grotesque theater, surrealist farce and a never malicious black humor mix. Ulf K's world is populated by outsiders - lovable beings who believe in their own imagination as well as in mortality. "

- Christoph Schmitt-Maaß.

Awards

• 2004 Max and Moritz Prize in the category of best German-speaking comic artist , Erlangen comic salon
• 2009 Children's Book Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 2018 Lynx of the Month (July) for Me and Jagger against the rest of the world (Text: Frida Nilsson )

Publications (excerpt)

• The moon gazer and other stories . Edition Panel, Bremen 1998 and 2002, ISBN 3-935146-01-9
• The bookplate . Reprodukt, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931377-54-7 .
• Floralia . Edition 52, Wuppertal 2002, ISBN 3-935229-16-X .
• Titus of Gothenburg . Edition 52, Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-935229-31-3 .
• Starry nights . Edition 52, Wuppertal 2004, ISBN 3-935229-36-4 .
• together with Martin Baltscheit : Akkuratus² - Snow Globe and Cocoa , Klett Children's Book, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-941411272 .
• Pretty big, Lasse . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-8369-5335-1 .
• Good night, Lasse . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-8369-5333-7 .
• Don't worry, Lasse . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-8369-5334-4 .
• Do you have to, Lasse? . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-8369-5336-8 .
• Please get in, Lasse . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-8369-5386-3 .
• At the zoo with Lasse . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-8369-5387-0 .
• Pelle and Brunno. Super flora . Reprodukt Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-943143-56-0 .
• Stories from Mr. Keuner from Bertolt Brecht . Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-46517-2 .
• New stories from father and son , with Marc Lizano . Panini Comics, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8332-3176-6 .

Exhibitions

2012: Ulf K. - The poet among comic artists , exhibition in the Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen

Web links

• Ulf K.'s blog
• Little Mr Paul's blog
• Ulf K.'s portfolio in the IO database
• Ulf K. at Edition 52
• Ulf K. at Reprodukt
• Ulf K. in the Edition Panel
• Literature by and about Ulf K. in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ulf K. at Gerstenberg
• Current (06/2012) Interview on the ComicRadioShow

Individual evidence

1. ^ This magical literary name K. in FAZ of September 17, 2013, page 33
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 26, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.