The author of Timur Vermes was born in 1967 in Nuremberg, the son of a German and a 1956 refugee from Hungary. He studied history and politics and then became a Journalist. In 2012, he published the satirical novel “He’s back”, and more than a Million copies were sold. Also, his second novel, “The Hungry and the Rich” made it to number one on the bestseller list.For SPIEGEL ONLINE, he writes about Comics and Graphic Novels.
Already on the first page it is clear how much you missed him: Friedrich Karl Waechter.In 2005, he died already for 13 years – then you see this cover picture, this girl from a few thin strokes, and much more very effectively used in pen-and-ink shadows, and as she so stands, as Waechter revealed only with the countenance and attitude of practically everything, it is benign, but not woken up, because you think to yourself: man, person to person, the guardian, you would like to keep longer there. Of course, it is nice and to the credit of the Diogenes publishing house has dug a little in waechter’s estate, and now the “hell dog” published.
F. K. Waechter (1937-2005)
A Comic in the sense it is not, but Waechter has always been a frontier, the en rather passerby is always a bit in the comic area has sniffed.
My parents had him at the end of the Seventies, beginning of the Eighties to see sometime, suddenly, in the closet, and what is there in this Band with the unconventional title of “Probably not a pig,” looking back, this was nothing less than a revelation. It was clearly, clearly, the book was also between the art books, but there was one other, a doubt, comic art.
However, it was not labeled so easily, and stylistically much more diverse than Loriot, who was until then in this Premium-Cartoon-Segment pretty much alone. Also, the punch lines of Waechter were not so clear: Under the image of an owl in the Sweatshirt, that owl had “a Norwegian sweater” and is now “one of the most fashionable birds in the forest”. A pig, on a building facade along samples and “käse Kuchen käse Kuchen käse Kuchen käse Kuchen” calls. A woman who tries in 18 Panels desperate, in a strong Wind under your Bathrobe with a bathing suit to wear.
Delicate as Sempé, hearty as Wilhelm Busch
The “11 most popular positions in the self-satisfaction of the man” I hung immediately impressed into the back of the class room, which was not also therefore possible, because the guardian offered only a self-willed Mix of nonsense and Pathos, but because he had it in the drawing simply irrefutable. It was not just Comedy or slapstick, it was perfectly artistic, delicate as Sempé, sometimes hearty, such as Wilhelm Busch, is more absurd than both of them together and wonderfully mischievous.
The magic Asyabahis behind this explained to me later: Waechter came out of the New Frankfurt school, he had previously worked with a certain F. W. Bernstein and a still gewisseren Robert gernhardt, and even with some of the other people that worked on the one hand so-clever stuff like the newspaper parody, “the world in a mirror”, but also no fear of contact with Otto Waalkes had, much of it later for the big main stream audience could use and, until today, preserved.
DISPLAY F. K. Waechter:
hell hound
Diogenes; 72 pages; 24,00 Euro.
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“The hell dog”, is a again with a bitter sweet melancholy in this crazy workshop get a taste, albeit in a very specific area. Waechter has fabricated a theatre fairy-tale, a fairy tale as a piece of theatre, he has done this before several times, in this case, after the template of “The Bearskin” by the brothers Grimm: When a dying soldier shoots the Hellhound of the devil, and closes a Deal with him – for seven years he is allowed to wash themselves, nor the nails cut, he has to run around for seven years with the skin of the hell-hound, but then, if he stops by, he’ll be free and rich, and the devil himself will brush out nicely.
This is so pretty that it hurts
The actual performance is obviously not the rather tame processing of the fairy tale, there are the illustrations. This incredible efficiency. In four Panels, the soldier pulls the hell hound skin, because everything is right, attitude, effort, sweat, and painted everything with so little, as the guardian would have to pay for the ink at the devil himself and with soul crumbs buy.
The next double page, the soldier wanders lonely by a tree landscape in the Wind, an incredibly elegant dealing with Black and White, Waechter signed with no outlines, only the shadow pages, the Rest of the eye itself, rightly, make on your own. Two peasant girls in a bed, airy, and precise been painted on, the farm house with the fence around it in the bright moon light that is so pretty it hurts: Because, when Admire clearly, that it is not to give up even more – Waechter was not even to you, you can probably assume that another will be out of the estate rather incomplete.
the only solution is The “Happy hour”, or “live Room”, or “Probably looking again, no pig”, a large format, not in paperback format, and clear, then a glass of red wine to fill, and Mr Waechter empty. Oh.
