Volker Ernsting

Volker Ernsting (born May 4, 1941 in Bremen-Vegesack ) is a German caricaturist and illustrator .

biography

Ernsting is the son of a bank employee. He attended high school and studied at the State Art School in Bremen. He later worked as an advertising artist in a Bremen department store. Between 1963 and 1964 he worked as a type graphic designer at Weser-Kurier . From 1962 he drew for the magazine pardon and in its early days also for the magazine Titanic .

Ernsting has been a freelance graphic artist and caricaturist since 1985 ; his drawings were first published in the weekly magazine Hörzu . From 1994 Ernsting also worked as a caricaturist for the daily newspaper Stuttgarter Nachrichten .

Ernsting lives with his family in Bremen- Vegesack .

A bundle of his work is in the collections of the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Works (selection)

The Focke-Museum in Bremen keeps the original drawings, among other things for his more than 28 book publications . An extensive collection of his work that is critical of politics and society can also be found at the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany.

• Sherlock Holmes and the secret of the blue pea. Bärmeier & Nikel , Frankfurt 1971.
• Was'n so gentle in Bremen. Printing house BBZ, Bremen 1973.
• Peter Frankenfeld jokes. Herder, 1974.
• Dasha is amazing. Schmalfeldt, Bremen 1977.
• Bremen, dignified ... or just take a look at Bremen. Döll, Bremen 1987
• De Werser approves! Döll, Bremen 1993
• The race between hare and hedgehog. Lappan, Oldenburg 1996
• with Hermann Gutmann : What eats like that in Bremen. Döll, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-8880-8003-7 .
• See well ... Volker Ernsting's life's work. KITO, Bremen 2000.
• Brothers Grimm - The Bremen Town Musicians. Lappan, Oldenburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89082-124-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Ernsting in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official homepage of Volker Ernsting