Rötger Feldmann

Rötger Werner Friedrich Wilhelm Feldmann aka crumbs ( born March 17, 1950 in Lübeck- Travemünde ) is one of the most successful German comic artist.

Life

Feldmann lithographer completed an apprenticeship with the company Nord Repro in Flensburg. After completing his apprenticeship, he was drafted into military service and became ill there of tuberculosis. In 1971 he got a job as a lithographer at the company hostage in Flensburg. Because of his passion to constantly draw cartoons and comics - especially those in which he caricatured his superiors - the employment relationship, however, was terminated in 1972. In the seventies, the unemployed crumbs drew mainly a series of comics about the " Bakuninis " an anarcho- family, with whom he caricatured the radical Left of the time. In the autonomous scene of the eighties they had cult status.

His first comic drawings around the figure Werner published in 1978 in the satirical magazine Pardon and in a Kiel city newspaper. The constant clashes with TUV and police gave him for his Horex conversions and probably also the contact with the chopper community much material for new stories. The comics were taken over as the Frankfurt beach paving from other city newspapers, and thus achieved a national reputation.

Book editions of the comics published from 1981 onwards, beginning with the band " Werner - Or what? ".

In 1990 the first Werner movie was released in theaters, " Werner - Beinhart ", with about five million visitors. The second Werner movie " Werner -! The boilers must " was in 1996 with 1.1 million viewers on the first weekend of the most successful theatrical release to date at all. Overall, the film in German-speaking countries was 5.2 million viewers. Followed in 1999, " Werner - Full Rooäää! " And the fourth part, " Werner - Beinhart is later ," was published in 2003 In 2011 was. " Werner - Ice Cold! " Published, but the received mostly negative reviews.

Rötger Feldmann now lives in Sören in Rendsburg -Eckernförde circle.

Brother Andi Feldmann

His brother Andreas ( Andi ) Feldmann belonged for many years to his closest associates in the preparation of the Werner comics and cartoons. He lives and works as a freelance artist in steel Ulsnis.

Public appearances and PR

The comic- strip " Werner - Ice Cold " race described between a self-built motorcycle with four Horex engines ( Red Porsche Killer) and " Holgis " red 1967 Porsche 911T 1988 held real on the airfield Hartsholm as part of a three-day festival. Crumbs interconnected and lost. The rematch in September 2004 at the Lausitzring was lost because the transmission of the Red Porsche Killer failed. The festival also Andi Feldmann went to a 24 chainsaw motors powered motorcycle, the Dolmette, against a Abt Audi AS400 with 450 hp and defeated.

Feldmann picked in the 1500 cc class at the TV Total Stock Car Challenge 2007 as a driver for overall victory for the eponymous sponsored team of the company "Pit - Stop". He also participated several times in the initiated by Stefan Raab and on the same transmission format based Wok World Championship.

Feldmann also designed a large-scale advertising campaign for the Jet petrol station chain with the known from his Werner comics figures; this runs until today ( 2013).

Publishing history

The first volume appeared in 1981 at the Werner - established for this publisher bread Verlach.

With Jens Nieswand Feldmann founded in 1991, rollercoaster -Verlag, which led to his bankruptcy in 2003 also took over the publication of the Werner comics to approximate. The end of 2002 WERNER comics were briefly published by Heyne Verlag, Munich. Since July 2003, the new comics, starting with the comic book of the film " Werner - Beinhart is later!" Egmont Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart. The current comic is called " Walk Free with marzipan " and was released in August 2004.

Trivia

Feldmann's pointed and later artists crumbs name comes from the fact that he " literally crumbled under the butt " his early motorcycles.

Works

Movies

• Werner - Beinhart! (1990)
• Werner - The boilers must! (1996)
• Werner - Full Rooäää! (1999)
• Werner - Beinhart is later! (2003)
• Werner - Cold as ice! (2011)

Comic Books

• Werner - Or what? (1981)
• Werner - Alles klar? (1982)
• Werner - who else? (1982)
• Werner - Cold as ice (1985 )
• Werner - Normal Yeah! (1987)
• Werner - Better is that! (1989)
• Werner - Ohauerha! (1992)
• Werner - Immä Äägä Middi Pullizei! (1993)
• Werner - Who brakes Fear (1994 )
• Werner - Well then! (1996)
• Werner - teaching years is not fun years (1996 )
• Werner - Exgummibur! (1998)
• Werner - Full batten ( 2002)
• Werner - Free web with marzipan (2004)

Special Editions (selection)

• Werner - Beinhart! ( Book to film ) ( 1990)
• Werner - The boilers must! ( Film magazine ) ( 1996)
• WERNER - Full Rooäää! ( Book to film ) (1999 )
• WERNER - Beinhart is later ( book to film ) (2003 )
• WERNER - Ice Cold ( book to film ) (2011 )

Other

• About Werner ( 1986)
• The Race (1988 )
• More about everything (1997)
• The cult of iron Wern Ersen (2000)