Uli Stein is dead. The famous cartoonist and native Hanoverian died last Friday at the age of 73.
You know them from postcards, books and coffee cups. And Uli Stein's human and animal cartoon characters are also cult internationally. Now the draftsman and photographer Ulrich Steinfurth, as the artist's native name was called, has died at the age of 73. The sad news was announced by the Uli Stein Foundation, which he launched in 2018 and which takes care of animals in need.
According to this, Stein died last Friday in his house near his hometown Hanover and was buried among his closest friends. He had suffered from Parkinson's for some time, but his death came as a surprise to all acquaintances and friends.
Stein was born in 1946 to a civil servant and a housewife. After a few semesters, he broke off studying in West Berlin to work as a journalist. Only at the end of the 1970s did he fully concentrate on drawing. In his illustrations, humans and animals usually face funny everyday situations. His bulbous-nosed cartoon characters made it to China, Korea and the USA.