Background
Ohser was born in Untergettengrün, nowadays an outlying centre of Adorf, in the Vogtland.
cartoonist illustrator painter writer
Ohser was born in Untergettengrün, nowadays an outlying centre of Adorf, in the Vogtland.
He completed his studies at the Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe in Leipzig in 1928, and began work at the Sächsische Sozialdemokratische Presse.
When he was four years old, his family moved to Plauen (hence his choice of pseudonym). In his work for such democratic magazines as Vorwärts, satirical representations of Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler earned him the enmity of the Nazis, and he was prohibited from practicing his trade (Berufsverbot). He continued to work under pseudonyms, and from 1940, began again to produce cartoons on political themes.
He was arrested on charges of expressing anti-Nazi opinions (reichsfeindliche Äußerungen).
The strip featured slapstick humour most of all (spankings are frequent) but emphasizes the tender and conspiratorial relationship between the two. The strip appeared from 1934 to 1937 in the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, for a total of 157 episodes.
In the early 1990s, the feature was also transformed into a children"s book series by Iranian publisher, "Vazheh", which included explanations of the cartoons (in Persian) along with the strip on the opposite page. In 1968 his ashes were interred in the central cemetery of his hometown, which took over responsibility for the grave"s maintenance in 1988.
He is also remembered with the East.O. Plauen prize for an outstanding living caricaturist.
Moreover, his "" characters have a statue in his hometown, where the figures appear on storefronts and tram schedules.