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WHO AM I? > SPIEGEL TV Videoclip


DER SPIEGEL-
Film-Dokumentation /
Documentary from DER SPIEGEL

Wie entsteht ein
SPIEGEL-Titelbild?
—How DER SPIEGEL 
Covers
are Made

Die Film-
Dokumentation über die Entstehung von SPIEGEL-
Titelbildern zur Ausstellung "Die Kunst des SPIEGEL":
Vorgestellt werden die Arbeitsweisen der deutschen Illustratoren Oliver Weiss und Jean-Pierre Kunkel, des amerikanischen Künstlers Braldt Bralds und der SPIEGEL-
Titelbildredaktion.

Documentary about the development of SPIEGEL covers to accompany the exhibition, "The Art of DER SPIEGEL": Presenting the creative style of the German illustrators Oliver Weiss and J.P. Kunkel, the American artist Braldt Bralds and DER SPIEGEL's cover art department.

The DVD cover containing the five-minute video featuring three artists working on DER SPIEGEL covers, including myself.


THE COVER

I
m Herbst 2004 beauftragte DER SPIEGEL bei mir einen Entwurf für das Titelbild zum Thema "Jammertal Ost".

Meine Zeichnung entstand in Anlehnung an Saul Steinbergs berühmtem Cover "View from 9th Ave" für den "New Yorker" aus den Siebziger Jahren und illustriert, wie der Boden unter verschiedenen Wahrzeichen des Ostens – Brandenburger Tor, Fernsehturm am Alex, Dresdner Frauenkirche, Brocken, Leipziger Messeturm und Plattenbauten –, wegbricht.

Im Hintergrund erkennt  man man "westliche" Wahrzeichen wie die Münchner Frauenkirche oder den Kölner Dom sowie "den Rest der Welt".

Oliver working on the illustration. 

D
ER SPIEGEL, Germany's largest and most influential weekly news magazine, contracted a cover illustration in the fall of 2004 on the topic of East-German disintegration.

I designed the image after Saul Steinberg's famous 1970's "View from 9th Ave" cover for the New Yorker magazine. It shows prominent  Eastern landmarks colliding as the ground gives away.
 

My illustration on the topic of "Jammertal Ost" has
been created using ink, pencil, and the computer.


THE FILM


Logo for the exhibition.

Bei der Arbeit an dem Bild wurde ich von einem Filmteam des SPIEGEL in meinem Atelier gefilmt. Dieses Material wurde für einen Videoclip von SPIEGEL TV verwendet, das während der Ausstellung "Die Kunst des SPIEGEL - Titel-Illustrationen aus fünf Jahrzehnten" vom 5. November 2004 bis 23. Januar 2005 in den Deichtorhallen Hamburg gezeigt wurde.

 
A view on the world from the computer screen...

Weitere Stationen der Ausstellungstournee waren Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, München und zum Abschluss im Januar 2006 das "Museum of American Illustration" in New York.


Oliver at work.

A film team from DER SPIEGEL had me filmed during the process of designing the illustration.

Extracts from that session were used for a SPIEGEL TV video clip which was shown at the well-known Deichtorhallen museum in November in an exhibition commemorating 50 years of SPIEGEL cover illustration art.

The exhibition started out in Hamburg, and then moved on to various German cities. It was also shown at the Museum of American Illustration in New York in January of 2006.

Search my web site for some more versions of this motif in the style of Saul Steinberg's famous "View of the World from 9th Ave" cover!


THE DVD
 

Excerpts from the documentary showing Oliver Weiss working on the SPIEGEL cover. 

Conceived, directed and filmed by Monika Zucht / DER SPIEGEL. Edited by Julia Dickopp.
(c) 2004 SPIEGEL TV


Screenshot from the video clip showing Oliver at his desk.


Back cover of the DVD

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