Gerhard Seyfried (born March 15, 1948) is a German

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cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators/artists in that they produce both the litera ...

, and writer. One of the most popular German underground artists, he won the

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in 1990.

Working method

With Flucht aus Berlin (1989/90) he changed his drawing style and switched from the "scurrying line that curls around the tiniest little things" ( F. W. Bernstein)Martin Frenzel:
Ausstellungen. Die Wimmelbilder-Welten des Gerhard Seyfried: Harmonian Anarchy vom Feinsten.
' In: ''comicoskop.com'', September 2015. to ligne claire. In the meantime, he uses the computer to color his figures: "I draw with pencil, then trace it with ink, but no longer color by hand.Plutonia Plarre:
„Die Grünen werden mir unheimlich“.
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-Berlin'', 24. September 2017, Interview. That's too expensive and too toxic." His colleague Ziska judged, "He's very precise and an incredibly good technician."

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NATO raus aus dem schwarzen Afghanen!
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'', Oktober 2007, Nr. 322, Interview mit Gerhard Seyfried und Ziska Riemann. When he works alone on a new comic book, he does without a "storyboard," i.e., a visualized scene book, and relies entirely on his spontaneous intuition. Only in the case of the comic albums that were created together with Ziska was a storyboard developed jointly. When writing his historical novels, on the other hand, he first reconstructs the "framework of historical events."Natalie Tenberg:
Gerhard Seyfried wird 60: „Ich sage nicht, Bullen seien Schweine“.
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'', 15. März 2008, Interview. To do this, however, he does not limit himself to the historical-scientific secondary literature, but researches archives for original documents and primary sources. Old photographs are also helpful to him, since he can "glean a vast amount of stuff from them."Natalie Tenberg:
Gerhard Seyfried wird 60: „Ich sage nicht, Bullen seien Schweine“.
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'', 15. März 2008, Interview. Only at the end of the research does he connect the context of the events with fictional characters, who act primarily as observers. N.N.:
Jenseits von Kreuzberg liegt Afrika.
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'', 12. Februar 2003.

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German comics writers German comics artists Living people 1948 births {{Germany-artist-stub