Schwarwel
Writing
Biography
Thomas Meitsch, better known under the pseudonym Schwarwel, is a German graphic designer, illustrator, comic book artist, director and art-director.
Known For
In October 1813, the largest battle to date took place near Leipzig: the decisive battle of the Wars of Liberation against Napoleonic foreign rule—the Battle of the Nations. Of the approximately 600,000 soldiers from over a dozen peoples and nations who fought in the battle, around 92,000 were killed or wounded. Many more victims among the civilian population of Leipzig were claimed by a typhus epidemic following the battle. The fully animated film by Leipzig-born animator Schwarwel is about these victims, about war, about its destruction and suffering, and we follow the paths of Napoleon, his adversaries, officers and soldiers, a market vendor, a surgeon, a pastor, a cemetery doctor, and a war widow through the turmoil of October 18, 1813, the day that finally decided the battle.
1813 - Gott mit uns
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Leipzig von oben
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Herr Alptraum und die Segnungen des Fortschritts
The animated film tells the semi-documentary story of the "Peaceful Revolution" in East Germany, which reached its decisive turning point with the Monday demonstration on October 9, 1989, in Leipzig. It traces the path to the success of the resistance, the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and finally, the reunification of Germany in October 1990.