Uli Stein

• Name — Uli Stein • Birth Name — Ulrich Steinfurth • Born — 26 December 1946 • Birthplace — Hanover, Lower Saxony, Allied-occupied Germany • Died — 28 August 2020 • Place of death — Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany • Field — cartoonist • Website — www.ulistein.de

Stein was born Ulrich Steinfurth in Hanover as a son of a housewife and a public servant. He graduated the Goetheschule in Hanover. After a two-year conscription in the Bundeswehr, he moved to West Berlin where he studied German, Geography and Biology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Shortly before graduating, he quit his studies to work as a journalist, amongst others six years for the Saarländischer Rundfunk. At the end of the 70s, he focused on cartoons full-time. Stein died on 28 August 2020 in his hometown of Hanover.

Stein's cartoons mainly focus on day-to-day-situations, often with anthropomorphic mice, cats, dogs, penguins and pigs. He also created cartoons for other events and subjects, such as politics or soccer. Although he mainly sold books and post cards with his cartoons, there is a variety of other products based on them, such as games and articles of daily use. By 2008, Stein had sold more than 90 million post cards and 9 million books in Germany alone and his works have been translated into a number of languages. From 1998 onward, he drew a weekly cartoon for TV Hören und Sehen, a German TV guide. With the advent of widespread internet usage, Stein began using the web as a medium for his cartoons, but was skeptical towards its use as a medium for books.

Uli Stein was recorded at birth as Ulrich Steinfurth. He also worked under the names Uli Stein and Peter Herbst. The authorities additionally record the headings Ulrich Steinfurth, Peter Herbst and Stein, Uli. His recorded language was German.

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