Franziska Becker (born 10 July 1949) is a German cartoonist.
Franziska Becker (born 10 July 1949) is a German cartoonist.
Franziska Becker was born in Mannheim in 1949. After finishing secondary school, she professionally trained as a technical medical assistant. Between 1972 and 1976 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, where she was taught by Markus Lüpertz, among others.
In 1973 she became involved in the feminist movement in Heidelberg, where she met Alice Schwarzer, the editor-in-chief of the feminist magazine EMMA. Becker's first published cartoon appeared in the first issue of this magazine. Since then Becker's cartoons, caricatures and illustrations have appeared in numerous German magazines and journals. Further, she also has published twenty books. Her work has been seen in the tradition of caricaturist Marie Marcks, "the Grande Dame of political caricature in Germany". [1] [2]
In 1988 Becker was awarded the Max and Moritz Prize for best comic artist. In 2010, a solo exhibition was shown at the Caricatura Museum Frankfurt, comprised of some 300 works. [3] In 2019 she was honoured with the Hedwig-Dohm-Award by the German Union of Women Journalists.
Following the award, some of her cartoons showing Muslim women in headscarves and burqas were criticized on social media and by German journalists Sibel Schick and Teresa Bücker as racist stereotypes. [4] In an interview Becker commented about these accusations. She stated that satire should be allowed to be critical and that her caricatures of some Muslim women were meant to criticize Islamist attitudes and the obligatory headscarf. [5] On the other hand, German activist Zana Ramadani, of Albanian Muslim descent, defended Becker's caricatures on the grounds of her own experience and opposition towards obligatory headscarfs. [6]
Max and Moritz: A Story of Seven Boyish Pranks is a German language illustrated story in verse. It was written and illustrated by Wilhelm Busch and published in 1865, and has since had significant cultural impact, both in German-speaking countries, where the story has been passed down through generations, but on the wider world, after translation into many languages. It has been adapted for film and television, as well as inspiring comic strips and children's TV characters and having things named after it.
Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter. He published wildly innovative illustrated tales that remain influential to this day.
German comics are comics written in the German language or by German-speaking creators, for the major comic markets in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with spill-overs into the neighboring, but lesser, comic markets of Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and German-speaking Belgium.
The Max und Moritz Award , also known as the Max & Moritz Prize , is a prize for comic books, comic strips, and other similar materials. It has been awarded at each of the biennial International Comics Shows of Erlangen since 1984, and is awarded in several categories, including an audience award and lifetime achievement award. It is open to all material published in Germany.
The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung was founded on 28 August 1949, on the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. It is seated in Darmstadt, since 1971 in the Glückert House at the Darmstadt Artists' Colony. It is a society of writers and scholars on matters pertaining to German language and literature in the Deutsche sprachraum, or Germanosphere.
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F. W. Bernstein was a German poet, cartoonist, satirist, and academic. He worked for the satirical biweekly pardon. After teaching at schools, he was professor of caricature and comics at the Berlin Academy of the Arts from 1984 to 1999. He was one of the founding members of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, which published the satirical magazine Titanic.
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Natascha Wodin is a German writer of Ukrainian origin. She was born in Fürth, Bavaria in 1945 to parents who had been forced labourers under the Nazi regime. She grew up in a camp for displaced persons. Following her mother's suicide, she was raised in a Catholic home for girls. She worked as a telephone operator and stenographer before becoming an interpreter and translator of Russian in the early 1970s.
The Fontane Prize of the City of Neuruppin was donated in 1994 on the occasion of the 175th birthday of Theodor Fontane from his native city of Neuruppin. Since 2019: Fontane-Literaturpreis der Fontanestadt Neuruppin und des Landes Brandenburg.
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Marie Marcks was a German graphic artist and cartoonist. She published numerous books, regular caricatures in widely circulated German publications as well as autobiographical graphic novels on everyday life. A well-known artist since the post-war years in the Federal Republic of Germany, she is considered among the most important caricaturists and has been called "the Grande Dame of political caricature in Germany".
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