The creator of the popular comic hero “Abrafaxe” is dead. Lothar Dräger died on July 9 at the age of 89 years in Potsdam, such as the mosaic tesserae announced for stones Verlag in Berlin.
Dräger had worked first as text and ideas employees at the comic magazine “mosaic”. From 1976 until his retirement in 1990 he was artistic director. With his classical education and his encyclopedic knowledge, coupled, with an original humor, Dräger has the image of the comic decisively influenced as a dramaturge and writer since the 50s, said the publisher.
The 19 January 1927 in near Szczecin born Dräger was originally an opera singer; only at the stage of the town of Nordhausen, then at the Hans Otto Theatre in Potsdam. Because of its open, critical way, he had fallen in the 50s in conflict with the heads of Potsdamer stage – and had therefore applied in 1957 at the “mosaic”. Through him, the magazine had then hidden to a puzzle made up of hundreds, designed to be encrypted allusions and quotations, says the obituary of the publisher.
The socialist answer to Mickey Mouse
In 1950, DDR superiors had searched for a socialist response to Western comics like “Mickey mouse”. On December 23, 1955, the first “mosaic” was released – with the three heroes “Dig, Dag and Digedag”, created by graphic designer Hannes Hegen (1925-2014). After a dispute over the political orientation of the booklet Hegen increased from 1975.
“Dig, Dag and Digedag” were replaced by “Abrax, Brabax and Califax”. Together with the graphic artist Lona Rietschel developed Dräger the “Abrafaxe”. The three goblin-like creature with a huge musket looked the year 1975-76 from the title of the GDR comic booklet. End last year celebrated the three tubers Nose heroes with their 480th adventure her 40th birthday.
In the GDR the “mosaic” -Hefte were always in short supply. Today are sold by the magazine in the month of about 70,000 copies. The comic, there are also in Austria, Belgium, Spain and Italy.
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