Uli Oesterle
Uli Oesterle (* 1966 in Karlsruhe ) is a German illustrator , graphic artist , comic artist and author .
Life
Oesterle trained as a graphic designer and communication designer at the U5 Academy in Munich .
Together with Benjamin von Eckartsberg, Marc Herold and Boris Kiselicki, he founded the studio group “Die Artillerie” in Munich in 1995.
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Already in the early 1990s Oesterle published comics and illustrations in magazines such as Strapazin , Comicstrich and Moga-Mobo and for commercial magazines. In 2000 his debut comic album Schläfenlappenphantasien was nominated for the Max and Moritz Prize at the Erlangen International Comic Salon . Also since the beginning of the 1990s he has been working as an illustrator for various newspapers, magazines, advertising agencies and his own customers, such as B. Playboy , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Fokus , Audi , City of Munich , State of Berlin etc.
In 2004 he received the ICOM Independent Comic Award for Best Independent Comic for the first chapter of "Hector Umbra" . Further nominations at the most important European comic festival in Angouléme / France followed in 2004 and 2010, also for "Hector Umbra".
In his graphic novel Father's Milk , Oesterle processes the life story of his father, which deals with homelessness, alcoholism and the severe illness resulting from it, in a semi-biographical manner . Volume 1 - The Odyssey of Rufus Himmelstoss - was published on May 26, 2020. Volumes 2 to 4 are planned for 2025. For his work on this graphic novel, he received the comic book award of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation in 2016 , a sponsorship award that is awarded for outstanding graphic novels in the making.
Since 2016 Uli Oesterle has been drawing hidden objects for puzzles that are published by Heye Verlag in Unterhaching .
Awards
- 2004: ICOM Independent Comic Prize
- 2016: Comic Book Prize of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation
- 2017: Rudolph Dirks Award
- 2018: Schwabing Art Prize
Books / comic / graphic novel
- Temporal lobe fantasies , Zwerchfell Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-928387-26-2 .
- Frass , Edition 52, Wuppertal 2000, ISBN 978-3-935229-01-2 .
- Hector Umbra , Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-551-74868-3 .
- Kopfsachen , Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-551-73429-7 .
- Father's milk - Book 1: The random walks of Rufus Himmelstoss, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-551-71158-8
Web links
- Homepage of Uli Oesterle
- New comics: Uli Oesterle - "Hector Umbra" , article from July 7, 2006 on spiegel.de (with short comic "Change of scenery", 10 pages)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Amazon.de: Uli Oesterle: books, audio books, bibliography, discussions. In: www.amazon.de. Retrieved September 16, 2015 .
- ^ Department for Education, Culture and Youth - Culture Project Office Erlangen: Internationaler Comic-Salon Erlangen. In: www.comic-salon.de. Retrieved September 16, 2015 .
- ^ ICOM - The Association of Comics eV In: www.comic-i.com. Retrieved September 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Börsenblatt Medien, Literaturszene / Uli Oesterle wins with "Vatermilch". In: www.boersenblatt.net. Retrieved September 16, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oesterle, Uli |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German illustrator, graphic artist, comic artist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |