Rötger Werner Friedrich Wilhelm Feldmann (born 17 March 1950 in
Travemünde
Travemünde () is a borough of Lübeck, Germany, located at the mouth of the river Trave in Bay of Lübeck, Lübeck Bay. It began life as a fortress built by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, in the 12th century to guard the mouth of the Trave, an ...
), Brösel, is a German comic book artist.
He is most famous for creating the character
Werner.
Life
Feldmann completed a lithographer apprenticeship at Nordrepro in
Flensburg
Flensburg (; Danish, Low Saxon: ''Flensborg''; North Frisian: ''Flansborj''; South Jutlandic: ''Flensborre'') is an independent town (''kreisfreie Stadt'') in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the centre of the ...
, after which he was drafted for basic military service where he fell ill with
tuberculosis
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. In 1971 he started work as lithographer at Geisel in Flensburg. Because he drew cartoons and comics all the time – especially caricatures of his superiors – he was dismissed in 1972. Being out of work throughout the 1970s, Brösel mainly drew comics about the „Bakuninis“, an anarchistic family, satirizing the radical left.
His first cartoons with the character Werner were published in 1978 in the German satire magazine
Pardon
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, as well as in the newspaper Kieler Stadtzeitung. One of the main inspirations for these were his constant battles with the German
TÜV and police because of his
Horex
Horex is a German motorcycle manufacturer. It was founded in 1923 by Fritz Kleemann in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in Hesse. From 1935 to the mid-1950s, the company operated as Horex-Columbus-Werk K.G.,then as Horex-Werke KG.
The brand name Hor ...
alterations, as well as his contact to the
Chopper community. The comics were licensed by other city newspapers like the Frankfurt-based magazine Pflasterstrand and so quickly became known nationwide.
Book publications started in 1981 with ''Werner – Oder was?''.
The first Werner movie, ''
Werner – Beinhart!
Werner – Beinhart! (English title: ''Werner and the Wizard of Booze'') is the first German comedy-comic-film adaption based upon the successful German comic Werner by "Brösel".
Production
Shooting took place in Kiel, Flensburg and Berlin ...
'', was released in 1990, and was one of the most successful movies in Germany that year with 4.9 million viewers. The second movie, ', was released in 1996, and was the second most successful movie that year in Germany with 4.95 million viewers.
More movies followed in 1999 (''Werner – Volles Rooäää!!!)'', 2003 (''Werner – Gekotzt wird später!)'' and 2011 (''Werner – Eiskalt!)''.
In 2021, Brösel Was a New Comic Book ''Der Fiese Willi''.
Rötger Feldmann lives in
Sören
Sören is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Eur ...
.
References
External links
Official site
*
1950 births
Living people
German cartoonists
German comics artists
Artists from Lübeck
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