 Rainer HACHFELD PostfachBerlin, GERMANY | |
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Rainer Hachfeld, born 1939 in Ludwigshafen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, has lived in Berlin since 1952. He studied animation and stage design at Meisterschule für das Kunsthandwerk from 1955 to 1959. Upon graduating, Rainer found professional work as a set designer at the political cabaret Kommödchen in Dusseldorf. Tiring of that and fancying himself a fine artiste, he moved to Paris and took up painting from 1960 to Œ61. But the sidewalk cafés and heavy brie can wear on a man as he longs for the mother land. He resumed work as a set designer, this time in a West Berlin political cabaret. Not letting his education go to waste, he next became an animator for an advertising film company from 1963-¹65. Finally, in 1965, he published his first political cartoons in Neue Ruhr Zeitung, Die Welt and Stern. From Œ66-¹67 he was on staff at Spandauer Volksblatt as an editorial cartoonist and a writer for the art pages. From Œ68 - Œ82, he worked as editor and/or cartoonist for various Berlin and FRG newspapers. During this period he did not neglect his love of the theater, doing stage design as well as writing a few plays himself. He also wrote for television and radio. And so on to Latin America, a place where all good cartoonists go to at some point in their lives. In 1971 Hachfeld first visited Caracas, Venezuela, for an exhibition of his work. His made further appearances in Mexico, Cuba and Nicaragua. Since 1990, Hachfeld has produced cartoons for such publications as Neues Deutschland, Le Monde and Die Zeit. He has been with Cartoonists and Writers Syndicate since 1995. Throughout the years, while constantly busy at drawing, he has continued been writing humorous and satirical plays and articles. | |
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