Gerhard Seyfried
{{Short description|German comic artist, cartoonist, and writer}}
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Gerhard Seyfried (born March 15, 1948){{cite encyclopedia | title=Gerhard Seyfried | encyclopedia=Lambiek Comiclopedia | accessdate=17 July 2014 | url=http://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/seyfried_g.htm}} is a German comic artist, cartoonist, and writer. One of the most popular German underground artists, he won the Max & Moritz Prize 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: [https://www.comicoskop.com/ausstellungen-2016-termine/ausstellungen-2015-gerhard-seyfried/ 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: [https://taz.de/Comiclegende-Seyfried-ueber-linke-Politik/!5446588/ „Die Grünen werden mir unheimlich“.] In: taz-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."Bernd Drücke: [http://www.graswurzel.net/322/ziska_seyfried.shtml NATO raus aus dem schwarzen Afghanen!] In: graswurzelrevolution, 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.{{Cite news |last=Plarre |first=Plutonia |date=2017-09-24 |title=Comiclegende Seyfried über linke Politik: „Die Grünen werden mir unheimlich“ |language=de |work=Die Tageszeitung: taz |url=https://taz.de/!5446588/ |access-date=2022-10-15 |issn=0931-9085}} Only in the case of the comic albums that were created together with Ziska was a storyboard developed jointly.{{Cite web |last=deutschlandfunkkultur.de |title=Dr. Phob. Schräublelocker, Facebook und der Überwachungsstaat |url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/dr-phob-schraeublelocker-facebook-und-der-ueberwachungsstaat-100.html |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur |language=de}}
When writing his historical novels, on the other hand, he first reconstructs the "framework of historical events."Natalie Tenberg: [https://taz.de/!5185095/ Gerhard Seyfried wird 60: „Ich sage nicht, Bullen seien Schweine“.] In: taz, 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: [https://taz.de/!5185095/ Gerhard Seyfried wird 60: „Ich sage nicht, Bullen seien Schweine“.] In: taz, 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.: [https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article384695/Jenseits-von-Kreuzberg-liegt-Afrika.html Jenseits von Kreuzberg liegt Afrika.] In: Die Welt, 12. Februar 2003.
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