Ulrich Steinfurth, better known as Uli Stein, (26 December 1946 – 28 August 2020) was a German cartoonist.
Personal life
Stein was born Ulrich Steinfurth in
Hanover
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as a son of a housewife and a public servant. He graduated the Goetheschule in Hanover. After a two-year
conscription in the
Bundeswehr
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, he moved to
West Berlin
West Berlin (german: Berlin (West) or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany, lacked any sovereignty, and was under mi ...
where he studied German, Geography and Biology at the
Freie Universität Berlin
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. Shortly before graduating, he quit his studies to work as a journalist, amongst others six years for the
Saarländischer Rundfunk
Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR; ''Saarland Broadcasting'') is a public radio and television broadcaster serving the German state of Saarland. With headquarters in the Halberg Broadcasting House in Saarbrücken, SR is a member of the ARD consor ...
. At the end of the 70s, he focused on cartoons full-time.
Stein died on 28 August 2020 in his hometown of Hanover.
Cartoons
Stein's cartoons mainly focus on day-to-day-situations, often with
anthropomorphic mice, cats, dogs, penguins and pigs. He also created cartoons for other events and subjects, such as politics or soccer. Although he mainly sold books and post cards with his cartoons, there is a variety of other products based on them, such as games and articles of daily use.
By 2008, Stein had sold more than 90 million post cards and 9 million books in Germany alone and his works have been translated into a number of languages. From 1998 onward, he drew a weekly cartoon for ''TV Hören und Sehen'', a German TV guide. With the advent of widespread internet usage, Stein began using the web as a medium for his cartoons, but was skeptical towards its use as a medium for books.
Bibliography
* Uli Stein: ''Mein Tagebuch''. Lappan Verlag GmbH, Oldenburg 2006, .
References
External links
Official homepage
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1946 births
2020 deaths
German cartoonists
Artists from Hanover