Enki Bilal

Enki Bilal ( born October 7, 1951 in Belgrade, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as Enes Bilalovic ) is a cartoonist, illustrator and film director. He has been living in Paris in 1961 and studied after school art and literature.

He has been through publications in comic magazines Pilote (English pilot ) and Métal hurlant (German heavy metal ) as a cartoonist and songwriter famous. The subjects of his comics ranging from extremely precise science fiction stories such as Exterminator 17 about complex political thriller ( a genre he virtually invented, along with the lyricist Pierre Christin and Jacques Tardi ) on the Spanish Civil War to the highly political and socially critical SF trilogy Alexander Nikopol. After the early works Bilal made ​​his drawings exclusively as Direktkolorierung.

In 1987 he won the Grand Prix de la Ville d' Angoulême at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d' Angoulême. In 1998 he was awarded the Prix International de la Ville de Genève pour la bande dessinée for his book Le Sommeil du monstre.

Life

Bilal was born in 1951 as son of a Bosnian father and a Slovak mother in Belgrade. In 1960 he goes - like his father - to Paris. He begins to draw, since 1971, first politician caricatures for Pilote (eg Valéry Giscard d' Estaing ).

1972, after a short trip to the Ecole des Beaux -Arts, Enki Bilal released his first album, L'appel des étoiles (Eng. reputation of stars) in Pilote. Here he also met Pierre Christin, with whom he works long and fruitful, for example, in La croisières of oubliés (Eng. The cruise of the Forgotten, 1975); Le vaisseau de Pierre (Eng. The stone ship, 1976); La ville qui n'existait pas (Eng. The city that did not exist in 1977 ).

1979 followed with the album Les Phalanges de l' Ordre Noir (Eng. The Sleep of Reason, 1979) the big break. It wins the 1980 Prix RTL for adult comics and is read from the magazine Lire for elftbesten book (!) Of the year named. At the same time more albums with Christin at Dargaud and Autrement (eg Los Angeles - l' étoile de oubliée Laurie Bloom (Eng. Los Angeles: The Forgotten Star of Laurie Bloom) and Coeurs Sanglants ). His best album and start a new drawing phase is the first volume of the Nikopol trilogy, which appears in 1980 (La foire aux immortels, dt The business of the Immortals ).

1982 follow Crux universalis and the portfolio The Wall. Bilal acts as scenes and costume designer. He draws on the glass part of the decor of La vie est un roman ( Life is a novel), a film by Alain Resnais. Two years earlier he had the poster for another movie drawn Resnais ' Mon oncle d' Amérique ( " My American Uncle ").

1983 does - back together with Pierre Christin - Partie de Chasse, a Soviet political thriller (1980 ger hunt. ). Paris-Match, Télérama, Le Point, L' Express, Le Figaro, Le Matin and Le Monde celebrate it with brilliant reviews. In 1986, the second volume of the Nikopol trilogy (La Femme piège, dt The woman in the future), and Bilal friends with Patrick Cauvin, with whom he wrote Hors jeu ( Away ), a " vision " of football.

In January 1987, the first major ceremony follows: Bilal is the 14th Président du Salon International de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême and won first prize. 1989 ended Enki Bilal his first film, Bunker Palace Hotel, along with Jean-Louis Trintignant and Carole Bouquet. Les Associés Humanoïdes give the album 17 Exterminateur out a story that appeared in Métal Hurlant first in 1978, with the Scénario by Jean -Pierre Dionnet. This is followed by further editions in Humano ( Mémoires d' outre- espace, La croisières of oubliés, Le vaisseau de Pierre, La ville qui n'existait pas, Les Phalanges de l' Ordre Noir, Partie de Chasse, La foire aux immortels, La Femme piège, Coeurs Sanglants ) and other costume designs for large events (Festival d' Avignon), the ballet and a major exhibition in November 1991 at the Grande Halle de la Villette and the exhibition transit in the Grande Arche de la Défense in Paris. September 1993 is finally released ( équateur Froid, German equatorial cold), the third volume of the Nikopol trilogy, which in turn elected in lire for best book of the year - a first for a comic book. This is followed by exhibitions, editions.

February 1997 is Bilal's second film in the cinema: Tykho moon, again with Jean -Louis Trintignant, accompanied by Julie Delpy, Joseph Leysen, Michel Piccoli and Richard Bohringer. 1998 appears the first part of a hotly anticipated second trilogy (Le Sommeil du Monstre ). This is followed by further editions and exhibitions (exposure Magma, Museo Diego Aragon Pignatelli in Naples, Exposition Le Sarcophage ).

In 2001 he engaged - after a long time together with Pierre Christin - in the album Le sarcophage (Paris, Bibliothèque Historique ) with the Chernobyl Gau. 2003 appears the second volume of "Monster Trilogy ( Trente -deux Décembre, dt 32 December), 2006, the third volume ( Rendez -vous à Paris, dt Rendez -vous in Paris), in which a fourth volume of" trilogy " is announced. This was published in 2007 ( Quatre? , dt Four? ).

Works

  • Légendes d' aujourd'hui ( "Legends of the Present", text: Pierre Christin ) La croisière of oubliés (Eng. The cruise of the Forgotten ), 1975
  • Le Vaisseau de pierre (Eng. The stone ship ), 1976
  • La Ville qui n'existait pas (Eng. The city, which did not exist ), 1977
  • Les Phalanges de l' Ordre Noir (Eng. The Sleep of Reason ), 1979
  • Partie de chasse ( ger hunt ), 1983
  • Cœurs sanglants (Eng. Forgotten moments ), 1988
  • Nikopol trilogy ( " Alexander Nikopol Trilogy" ) La foire aux immortels (Eng. The business of the Immortals ), 1981
  • La femme piège (Eng. The woman in the future ), 1986
  • Froid equateur (German equatorial cold ), 1992
  • Tétralogie du Monstre ( "Monster tetralogy " ) Le sommeil du monstre (Eng. The Sleep of Monsters ), 1998
  • 32 décembre (Eng. 32 December ), 2003
  • Rendez -vous à Paris (German Rendezvous in Paris ), 2006
  • Quatre? (Eng. Four? ), 2007
  • In addition, German publishers appeared: 1985 Los Angeles: The Forgotten Star of Laurie Bloom ( with Pierre Christin )
  • 1987 Crux Universalis
  • 1990 Exterminator 17
  • 1992 Away ( with Patrick Cauvin )
  • 1992 memories from space
  • 1995 Blue Blood
  • 1998 memories from another time
  • 2001 The sarcophagus
  • 2010 Animal'z
  • 2011 Julia & Roem

Movies

  • Bunker Palace Hôtel (1989 )
  • Tykho Moon (1996 )
  • Immortal - New York 2095: The Return of the Gods ( 2004) ( alternatively: Immortal (Ad Vitam ) )

Computer Games

  • Nikopol: The Return of the Immortal (2008)

Exhibition

  • 2013: Enki Bilal - Les fantômes du Louvre. Louvre, Paris. Accompanying book.

Pictures of Enki Bilal

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