As a cartoonist, they are called Karma. Where did the Name?
That was more due to a coincidence,I regret it afterwards a bit. Many cartoonists to create a Pseudonym.From “cartoonist advice Iller Marco” I was able to deduce Karma – the idea that Karma is something that comes as a result of one’s own good or bad actions back, of course, has been a part of. The Problem is that the term is used in the esoteric scene and, therefore, also people on the site, the expect.

Like a typical Karma looks cartoon?
I’m more on the subtle side, but also to my clients – Nebelspalter included. Stylistically, I’m not stronger in comparison to colleagues still, I could find even more. Of certain cartoonists I only see two, three strokes, and I know immediately who they are.

2016 was voted your drawing “interior of a Wutbürgers” for cartoon of the year. Would you say that it is your best work?
Stylistically, it is, for me, atypically. I am happy to take well-known motifs and change them. By the amendment of the image, the humor level. An example of a cartoon on the topic of Obesity from the year 2003 is: Since I have played with the Vitruvian man of Da Vinci. “The inner life of a Wutbürgers” parodies is also an infographic, how you could be in an old medical Textbook.

“the inner life of a Wutbürgers” (Click to Enlarge). Photo: PD

it Was to think that just a atypical cartoon earned you the award?
A bit, Yes. (laughs)

What are you working on most at the moment?
As a journalist I shy away from any topic, interesting everything can be. In the past three years, I have engaged with me more and more with the public function of journalism – to what is behind the term “Social Media bubble”, as we who do not and why you can’t break through, who can we reach,. And: Why would a functioning democracy is so important.

What does the term “filter bubble”?
My goal is to give people a new insight. In reality, the shoulder comes knocking, but primarily from our own ranks. I deny that, personally, less, than any other satirist would do. The Complain of this condition is somewhat short-sighted: The press consumption was up in the 1970s, not differently, even if we have not spoken of a filter bubble. Even then, all read only their own party newspaper, the socialists have not spoken with farmers, and so on. Today, this phenomenon has become of social media in real-time. Therefore, the question is, what good can it do for me, what we are doing.

“Satire is a kind of Trojan horse: the gift of entertainment that can hurt”

And what are you doing?
If I explain the function of the Satire, I need like the image of the Trojan horse. We offer as a gift, the entertainment, the look forward to. In the process, you realize that the charge that is in the gift, to bring to Reflection and new insights. You should not provoke it, but hurt can.

In December, the case Relotius shook the media landscape. His employer, the “mirror”, made public that many of his reports were wholly or partially invented. How do you perceive the debate?
From the point of view of a satirist, this development is a threat. There was a time, in the Satire of the monopoly on “Fake News” – but in a defined space. Reputable media outlets have reported in the time perception of the readers objectively and in the best case, in the corresponding vessels comments. The alienation was reserved for the Satire: Is distorted a little, to think of the people, what is the goal of the distortion. A good satirical article the are signals amplified in the course of the text, that it is not just a Fake.

What is different today?
Typically, there is information public, the satirist of the interior and satirist could use: they drew on prior knowledge and decide to think about the recipients on the Pointe. By the term “Fake News” has become the demarcation line between serious and satirical of the media more difficult. Because “Fake News” takes advantage of art, to describe some aspects of a topic, and others knowingly to omit. Thus, they distorted the reality in the same way as Satire, but not marked as such, and with other objectives.

“I have to ask myself, whether it is the democracy is conducive, when Satire is no longer delimit”

conversely, it is part of the Fun of Satire, if someone your texts or Videos for face value.
Sure, for example, the postilion has published reactions of readers, have you Invented something believed – it’s part of the satirical calculus. Schadenfreude is one of the oldest forms of Humor. Most often this happens when a Text goes from the “own” circle, for example, if it is shared via social media. Then it is that someone can’t place him. These are beautiful moments. Now it brings me but also in a Clinch; I have to wonder whether democracy is conducive, if Satire can no longer distinguish.

this Means that you must invent the Satire?
Yes, this process has already been going on – about the fact that Satire Shows increasingly to relevant information sources. Some American Shows are good examples of this are: you have an enlightenment claim that is connected with Research, extend this claim but on Satire. This is a difficult Balance.

How the nebelspalter, whose editor-in-chief since 2005, she has reacted to these developments?
We have found that in the media, the Hunger for authenticity has increased. We respond by we are approaching the “Real” and so do, as would a Text seriously. For example, we parodying now, increasingly, the very serious news jargon, that’s looking good. It comes to images, I need to distinguish between Online and Print: photo montages run the Internet better than drawn cartoons, especially the younger audience. What matters here very well, are display-Fakes. For example, we had a display of a tour operator for a luxury cruise to all the Hot Spots of the world, from “Refugee-Watching” in the Mediterranean sea to the coral bleaching in Australia.

“the Comedians, about the contents of faith, make fun of, is designed to get cheap applause – and we do without”

your magazine Hit more in the left or in the right political camp?
Interestingly, happens to both find him to the left, the other to the right. Abokündigungen hold on both sides of the scale. (laughs)

What topics are taboo?
Two areas that let the outside: the subject of Religion, as well as too vulgar topics in the sexual area. This is grown from the history of the mist splitter. Of course: anything politically relevant, such as the child abuse in the Catholic Church, it is still. But Comedians, the contents of make believe fun, get a cheap applause – and we do without. Access, such as Charlie Hebdo with the cartoons of Mohammed has shown us. We say to ourselves: We want to serve our audience, not someone who does not provoke, is not our subscriber.

Reverses this logic, you therefore not to provoke your subscribers?
In a Mass, that is compatible! Therefore, I answer the question of what is permitted to Satire: Satire of everything in the target group the success that one has chosen or is already given.

A journalistic goal, but it is also issues, of which this target audience does not suspect that they are relevant.
That is not closed. The Nebelspalter offers not only an article, but a collection that has to work under the dash – means that you must be exciting and from time to time, hurt. This is the Trojan horse of which I have before spoken.

“The unit is often more appropriate than the sledgehammer”

the fog log splitter Comes over this is not something good?
We are often perceived as boring, the nebelspalter-Humor is a reflection of society. We have in Switzerland a more subtle Humor than in Germany. This is due to the fact that we are democratically more directly involved, and many, many topics bear responsibility, about whom we select in the government. The result is that “can’t be up there,” simply Evil. The Nebelspalter, the showed already during the 2. World war: The cartoons were sometimes incredibly subtle, but just as that they have been understood. The unit is often more appropriate than the sledgehammer.

To conclude: What do you like about your work the most?
I love the tingle, if you don’t recognise that a clever cartoon is just a harmless drawing. This is exactly why it is not necessary, the operation of public passenger plump to display vulgar and offensive. (Zürcher unterländer)

Created: 23.02.2019, 21:27 PM