KALENDER

  • Fr 19.04.24 20:00 Pirmasens | Festhalle Pirmasens EIN RÄTSELHAFTER SCHIMMER
  • Sa 20.04.24 20:00 Dreieich | Bürgerhäuser Dreieich EIN RÄTSELHAFTER SCHIMMER
  • So 23.06.24 20:00 Göttingen | Deutsches Theater EIN RÄTSELHAFTER SCHIMMER
  • Sa 23.11.24 20:00 Potsdam | Nikolaisaal EIN RÄTSELHAFTER SCHIMMER
  • Sa 29.11.24 20:00 Offenburg | Oberrheinhalle EIN RÄTSELHAFTER SCHIMMER
  • Sa 30.11.24 20:00 Weinheim | Stadthalle EIN RÄTSELHAFTER SCHIMMER
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VITA

Robert Nippoldt is not only an illustrator and book artist, but also an entertainer - with a soft spot for the 1920s. In his graphics and books, he brings to life scenes of jazz music and vibrant metropolises such as Berlin, New York and Hollywood. His images have appeared in The New Yorker and TIME Magazine, among others, and have won numerous international awards.


I always wanted to be a rock star. But it doesn't go down well with my family when I come home late with five groupies. That's why I opted for a bourgeois existence as an illustrator and bookworm. Motifs from the 1920s sell pretty well. That's why I've just done the fifth book on the Roaring Twenties. Amazingly, I've won over two dozen national and international awards for it. But that hardly makes me happy anymore. Lately, I've been sneaking out of the house more and more often to secretly conquer the stages of the world with my stage show "Ein Rätselhafter Schimmer". I have already come as far as Greven/Westphalia. I wonder when Carnegie Hall will call?

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REFERENCES / CUSTOMERS

The New Yorker, Le Monde, TIME Magazine, ARTE Magazin, Reader’s Digest, ZEIT, Gerstenberg Verlag, Büchergilde Gutenberg, Bearfamily Records, Mare, Dumont Verlag, JazzThing, Sophiensäle Berlin, AIDA, Deutsche Bahn, Apollo Theater New York, Jacoby & Stuart, Pentagram, Vanity Fair, Mercedes, TASCHEN, Coppenrath Verlag, Spiegelburg …

AWARDS

• Art Directors Club Award, 2019, New York
• Indigo Design Award, 2019, Amsterdam
• Best Book Award, 2018, Los Angeles
• European Design Award, 2008, Stockholm

• ICMA Award, 2022, Meerbusch
• German Design Award, 2019, Frankfurt
• iF Design Award, 2019, Hanover
• A' Design Award, 2019 Como/Italy
• Econ Megaphon Award, shortlist, 2019, Berlin
• International Design Award, 2019, Los Angeles
• ADC Award, 2018, Berlin
• Joseph Binder Award, 2018, Vienna
• Stiftung Buchkunst, shortlist, 2018, Frankfurt
• Berlin Type Award, 2018, Berlin
• Red Dot Design Award, 2018, Essen
• D&AD Award, 2014, London
• Good Design Award, 2014, Chicago
• International Book Award, 2014, Los Angeles
• A'Design Award, Como, Italy
• Best American Infographic, 2014, New York
• Award from the German Designer Club, 2011, Frankfurt
• "Film Book of the Year," Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin
• German Record Critics Award, 2009, Berlin
• Illustrative: "One of the most beautiful books in Europe", 2007, Berlin

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TEACHING

Lecturer at the Academy Regensburg
Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Münster, Department of Design

Kontakt

Picture sale
Nora Franzmeier
mail@nippoldt.de
Tel. +49 251 2897766

Show and licences
Agency Hanna Kuster
hello@hannakuster.de
Tel. +49 179 1189807
www.hannakuster.de

Commissioned work
Studio Nippoldt / Astrid Nippoldt
mail@studionippoldt.de
Tel. +49 176 22987928
www.studionippoldt.de

Personal
Robert Nippoldt
Hafenstrasse 64, Ateliers, Haus 1
48153 Muenster, Germany
Tel. +49 251 2030060
robert@nippoldt.de

PUBLICATIONS

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Press comments

On the books and shows reported:

Süddeutsche Zeitung, ZDF, Die ZEIT, BBC, Focus, Spiegel, 3Sat, WELT, FAZ, BILD, Brigitte, Vanity Fair, The Independent, Rheinische Post, Numero, NDR, Page, Novum, Stern, Monopol, Harper`s Bazaar, Rolling Stone, ...

BZ, WDR, Kurier, Deutsche Welle, Tagesspiegel, RBB, Penthouse, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, NRZ, Zitty, Manhattan Magazine, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Freundin, Berliner Zeitung, SWR, Der Standard, Weekend Knack, Deutschlandfunk, Sunday Express.

"Rarely has one held a book in one's hands that appears so accomplished and aesthetically attractive in its artistic design and at the same time captures the actual subject matter, jazz and its time, with such stylistic confidence. "
– Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about the jazz book read article

"Hollywood in the 30s is a perfectly staged illustrated book that convinces visually and in terms of content all along the line. Or to put it another way: it is as beautiful as Garbo, as elegant as Fred Astaire, and as lively as the Marx Brothers. This epoch has certainly never been portrayed so light-footedly, so vividly, so wittily, but above all so originally. ".
– Deutschlandradio Kultur about the Hollywood book read article

"As lovingly as a butterfly collector, Robert Nippoldt has compiled the biographies of 33 villains. "
– Stern about the gangster book

"You can't immerse yourself in the Berlin nightlife of the 1920s any more beautifully without having to leave your sofa at home. " - Stern on the gangster book.
– Götz Alsmann about the Berlin book

"A jewel of entertainment! Perfect coordination between ambience, image, sound, creativity and the magic of the Roaring Twenties. This is unbelievably good and impressive in many ways!".
– Florian Hellbusch about the show "Ein Rätselhafter Schimmer".


Interviews

Interview Eselsohr, 2023
Interview Stadtgeflüster, 2021
Interview MERIAN, 2021
Interview NaDann, 2020
Interview ZEIT, 2018
Interview Rouge Magazine, 2014
Interview Fabulous Noble, 2013
Interview Semesterspiegel, 2007

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