Wilhelm Hartung (caricaturist)

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Georg Wilhelm Hartung (born December 2, 1919 in Westerwisch ; † November 28, 2003 in Reinbek ) was a German draftsman , caricaturist , illustrator and author of Low German stories and rhymes.

Live and act

His father was Wilhelm Hermann Hartung (1884–1948) and his mother was Frieda Christine Auguste von der Fecht (1886–1957). After graduating from high school in 1939, Wilhelm Hartung served in the Air Force as a glider pilot and was taken prisoner by the Soviets. After his release he worked as a milk controller in Spieka near Cuxhaven. Since 1944 he was married to Inna Margarete Jappen (1922-2001).

After his father's death in 1948, Wilhelm Hartung gave up his education studies in Hamburg and worked as a draftsman for the newspaper Hamburger Freie Presse and then for the Hamburger Anzeiger until 1956. In early 1957 he switched to the daily newspaper Die Welt and worked there with the cartoonist Mirko Szewczuk (with Welt since 1949) and Wolfgang Hicks (with Welt since 1957). When Mirko Szewczuk died in May 1957, Hartung was his successor. In 1968 Hartung was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize for his work as a political cartoonist for the newspaper Die Welt . In total he worked for Die Welt for 18 years. His successors were Wolfgang Hicks and from 1983 to 1999 Klaus Böhle. In addition, Hartung also worked as a draftsman for various magazines at Axel Springer Verlag . a. for the television magazines HÖRZU and FUNK UHR .

In the period from 1979 to 1987 he published a total of five books with his own Low German stories at Hamburg's Glogau Verlag, which he also illustrated himself. He also worked for the DAK newspaper of the German salaried health insurance company . Hartung created the illustrations for the edition of Hans-Wilhelm Smolik's book Näpfli's miraculous journey through the human body , which has been published by the DAK since 1965 and has been distributed millions of times . In more than 40 years of activity, Hartung drew almost 6,000 caricatures for the Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung (DVZ) until shortly before his death. Among the numerous caricatures, he created a necrology about himself in the early 1990s. The drawing shows a pastor at the funeral of a draftsman with his pictures and angels in the sky with the following subtitle:

Too late.
A draftsman - unknown faded ...
His life was black with lines;
And gray from blind editors. -
Perhaps that angels swear by him.

Exhibitions

  • 1994: "Welt" political caricatures by Wilhelm Hartung. Reinbek Castle , Reinbek
  • 2001: Adenauer with a wink caricatures about the founding chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967), by Wilhelm Hartung, caricaturist for the daily newspaper “Die Welt”. An exhibition by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung from January 12th to February 28th, 2001 Berlin, Tiergartenstrasse.

Works

  • Thünkroom and Wohrheit. 1979.
  • Rieder, Peer, Jägerslüüd and Buurn. Quite true stories, amusing verses and “Low German” drawings. 1983.
  • Flat with music. Stupid cloth and smack Sooken. Stories. 1984.
  • Before and aft diek. Queerbeet döör de Wischen vun Nord no Süd. Poems and stories. 1987.

literature

  • HE Hansen In: Home and culture between the Elbe and Weser. Volume 3, Landschaftsverband, Stade 1984.
  • Kurt Flemig : Caricaturist Lexicon. Verlag Walter de Gruyter , 1993, ISBN 3-598-10932-6 .
  • "World" political cartoons. Selected and briefly explained by Frank Stiller. Exhibition catalog Kulturstiftung Stormarn. Böckel, Glinde 1994, ISBN 3-923793-14-6 .
  • Adenauer with a wink. Exhibition catalog. Konrad Adenauer Foundation, St. Augustin 2001.
  • Frank Schnell: Personal - Wilhelm Hartung has died. In: Deutsche Verkehrszeitung. No. 144, December 2, 2003, p. 2.
  • Rainer H. Thierfelder: Points in time - people, events and thoughts about one's own origin. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2007, ISBN 978-3-8334-7063-9 .
  • Konrad Feilchenfeldt (Hrsg.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical and bibliographical manual. Volume XIV, De Gruyter Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-908255-44-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Schnell: Personal - Wilhelm Hartung has died. In: Deutsche Verkehrszeitung. No. 144, December 2, 2003, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Rainer H. Thierfelder: points in time - people, events and thoughts on one's own origin. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2007, ISBN 978-3-8334-7063-9 .
  3. ^ Elke Rehder : Wilhelm Hartung Bibliography of Illustrated Works. Barsbüttel 2015.
  4. ↑ Konrad Feilchenfeldt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical and bibliographical manual. Volume XIV.
personal data
SURNAME Hartung, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartung, Georg Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, caricaturist, illustrator and author of Low German stories and rhymes
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Westerwisch
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2003
Place of death Reinbek