Kostas Koufogiorgos
Kostantinos "Kostas" Koufogiorgos (born 14 February 1972 in Arta, Greece) is a Greek-German political cartoonist and painter.
Biography
While working as a cartoonist for several newspapers and magazines; Koufogiorgois began studying economics at the University of Athens in 1990. His first work of art was published in 1989 in the political magazine ODIGITIS.[1] Kostas Koufogiorgos has worked for numerous political and business papers, as well as for more than 20 magazines in Greece. Until 2014 he worked for the greek Newspaper Eleftherotypia. In 2008, he started to work for German media.
Today he is the cartoonist of the weekly newspaper Neue Rheinische Zeitung.[2] and Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung. He publishes his works of art in other daily newspapers, such as Financial Times Deutschland (until 2012), Handelsblatt (until 2010), Passauer Neue Presse, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, Lübecker Nachrichten, Schweriner Volkszeitung, Magdeburger Volksstimme, Weser Kurier, Fuldaer Zeitung, Tageblatt (Luxemburg] and others and magazines as Nebelspalter and Der Spiegel.
Koufogiorgos is living in Stuttgart, Germany.
Books
- Frau Schächtele will oben bleiben. Children's book in cooperation with mit Monika Spang, Silberburg Verlag, Tübingen and Lahr/Schwarzwald 2011, ISBN 978-3-8425-1128-6
- Minima Politika. Political Cartoons with lyrics by Wolfgang Bittner. Horlemann Verlag, Unkel (Germany) 2008, ISBN 978-3-89502-271-5
- Pano Kato. Elefsis, Tripolis (Greece) 2004, ISBN 960-87755-4-X
- ΜΕΡΕΣ ΚΡΙΣHΣ. Cartoons by Kostas Koufogiorgos and Vaggelis Papavasiliou published in Eleftherotypia 2013. Athens 2014
Exhibitions
Cartoons
- Group Exhibition, Bamberg (Germany), 2006-2010: "For heaven's sake: church in the caricature"
- Exhibition/Lecture, Stuttgart (Germany): "Minima Politika"; Political lyrics and caricatures. In cooperation with Wolfgang Bittner
- Group Exhibition, Berlin (Germany): January 22, 2009 - November 13, 2009: "Rückblende" – Political Caricatures of the year 2008
- Group Exhibition, Berlin (Germany): January 28, 2010 - November 12, 2010: "Rückblende" – Political Caricatures of the year 2009
- Group Exhibition, Berlin (Germany): January 21, 2011 - October 21, 2011: "Rückblende" – Political Caricatures of the year 2010
- Group Exhibition, Berlin (Germany): January 27, 2012 - October 26, 2012: "Rückblende" – Political Caricatures of the year 2011
- Group Exhibition, Stuttgart u. a.: 31.März 2012 - 15. Mai 2012: "Mit spitzer Feder" - German Award for political cartoons
- Group Exhibition, Berlin (Germany): January 30, 2014 - November 14, 2014: "Rückblende" – Political Caricatures of the year 2013
Award
- 2012: Deutscher Preis für die politische Karikatur [3]
- 2016: Auszeichnung Deutscher Preis für die politische Karikatur "Mit spitzer Feder 2015"[4]
- 2016: 3. Preis beim Wettbewerb zum Tag der Pressefreiheit 2016 [5]
Paintings
- Exhibition, Korntal (Germany): May 25, 2007 - August 27, 2007: "Kostas Koufogiorgos-Paintings"
- Group Exhibition, Athens (Greece): February 18, 2009 - March 20, 2009: "The cartoonists are painting"
References
- ↑ Odigitis Website (in Greek)
- ↑ NRHZ Website (in German)
- ↑ Mit spitzer Feder: Deutscher Preis für die politische Karikatur - Preisträger 2012, abgerufen am 31. März 2012
- ↑ http://www.mitspitzerfeder.de/preistraeger-2015/
- ↑ http://www.bjv.de/news/br-redakteur-ruediger-baumann-gewinnt-bjv-preis-zum-tag-pressefreiheit
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