Walter Hanel

Walter Hanel (born September 14, 1930 in Teplitz-Schönau ) is a German political cartoonist .

Life

In Czechoslovakia grew up, Hanel was in the last days of World War II as a high school student to People's storm moved in and so experienced as a 14-year-old the devastating air raids on Dresden . Expelled from his home country, he moved to Leipzig with his mother and began an apprenticeship as a painter in the GDR . He soon moved to Cologne in the Federal Republic of Germany , where he completed his training as a painter and varnisher. In addition to his work at the Ford factory in Cologne , he learned to draw at the adult education center . From 1953 he completed an art degree as a graphic designer at the Cologne factory schools and was appointed master class in 1959. In the same year he won first prize in a cartoon competition organized by the newspaper Die Welt .

In 1956 he married Gertrud Elisabeth Fischer and moved with her to Bensberg in the 1960s , where he still lives today. In 1971 his daughter Valeska Hanel was born. In 1997 his wife died in a car accident. The city of Bergisch Gladbach made him an honorary citizen in 2003.

Today, Hanel is regarded as the leading political illustrator in Germany. He was a contributor with regular drawings and cartoons:

• Simplicissimus
• pardon
• DM
• Rhenish Mercury
• Cologne city indicator
• FAZ
• impulses

and supraregional / international at

• mirror
• Herald Tribune
• Le Monde
• Le Soir
• Time Magazine

In 1970 (after 12 years at WDR ) he turned to free graphic work because (quote) ... Caricaturists cannot work with "shades of gray", for them there is always only "black" or "white" ...

Since 1975 Hanel has been represented with his works in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad, including in the Caricature Museum in Warsaw , in the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover, in the art collection of the University of Göttingen and at the German-Italian Cultural Institute in Florence.

• 2005 Large exhibition in the House of History in Bonn
• 2006 Exhibition in the Brandenburg State Center for Political Education.

Almost all of Walter Hanel's political caricatures are in the collections of the House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Works

• Thinking school for democracy , Heider-Verlag , Bergisch Gladbach 2003, ISBN 3-87314-388-7
• Construction site Europe , Heider-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2004, ISBN 3-87314-397-6
• Oh, Justitia , Heider-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-87314-426-2
• 5 to 12 , Heider-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-87314-452-1

Awards

• 1987: Wilhelm Busch Prize
• 1988: Thomas Nast Medal
• 1999: Gold Medal Satyrykon , Poland
• 1995: German Prize for Political Caricature
• 2000: Europa-Union Medal of the Europa-Union
• 2001: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2003: Honorary citizen of the city of Bergisch Gladbach
• 2009: Honorary Award of the German Caricature Award of the Sächsische Zeitung

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Günter Otten: The Lord of a Thousand Ravens , Vita for the 80th in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from September 14, 2010 (October 12 no longer online)
2. ↑ Walter Hanel from the city of Bergisch Gladbach.Retrieved on 18th 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} German Prize for Political Caricature ( Memento from December 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed December 8, 2007
4. ↑ Emmanuel van Stein: The Nesthocker and His Critical View in Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Culture p. 31, from 14./15. November 2009. online: (accessed December 12, 2017)

Web links

• Vita Walter Hanel, draftsman and caricaturist Retrieved July 18, 2017
• Walter Hanel - The Nesthocker and His Critical View, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, November 13, 2009 Retrieved July 18, 2017
• Atelier visit to cartoonist Walter Hanel - Where the strange birds are hatched, Bergisch Landeszeitung from December 14, 2014 Retrieved on July 18, 2017