Ralf König

Some history

Some years ago (about 1990 or 1991), the comics magazine El Víbora (a Catalan magazine writen in Spanish) started publishing some very fun comics.

They were written by Ralf König, and showed the german gay world.

From then on I buy everithing that appears in my city about him.

Biographical data

He was born in Soest (1960). He studied for carpenter, then he went to a Proffesional School and, at last, he studied between 1981 and 1986 at Düsseldorf's National Art Academy.

Bibliography

Ordered by publication in Catalonia:

El condón asesino (das Kondom des Grauens)
El retorno del condón asesino
El hombre nuevo (der bewegte Mann) (reprinted as El hombre deseado)
Pretty Baby
Lisístrata (Lysistrata)
Beach Boys (Beach Boys)
Huevos de toro (Bullenklöten)
La noche más loca
Con la mano izquierda (... und das mit Links)
Las Navidades de Konrad y Paul (excerps from Konrad und Paul and Konrad und Paul II)

Not published (yet)

Prall aus dem Lieben
Zitronenröllchen
Heisse Herzen

Others

Konrad und Paul (stories published in el Víbora)
Some stories published in MENsual

German bibliography

Schwulcomix 1 (1981)
Safere Zeiten (1985)
Macho Comix (1986)
Lysistrata (1987)
Der bewegte Mann (1987)
Kondom des Grauens (1988)
Pretty Baby (1988) (Der bewegte Mann 2)
Beach Boys (1989)
Heisse Herzen (1990) (coproduction with Detlef Meyer, contains mainly gay lyrics with some König's Comics)
Prall aus dem Lieben (1990)
Bis auf die Knochen (1990) (Kondom des Grauens 2)
Zitronenröllchen (1991)
Silvestertutenball (1991) (Ralf König Comics, Cartoons, Critzeleien, published by Janssen Galerie Berlin as an exhibition catalogue 1988)
Schwulcomix 2 (1992)
Konrad und Paul
Bullenklöten (1993)
Schwulcomix 3 (1994)
Konrad und Paul II
Schwulcomix 4 (1995)
... und das mit Links (1995)
Jago (1998)

Films made upon their comics

Maybe, Maybe Not or Most Desired Man or The Turbulent Man (Der bewegte Mann)
- Info in English
- Article over the film Der bewegte Mann (in English)
- Info about Der Bewegte Mann film (in Italian)
- Info from newtimes.com (in English)
- Tutti lo vogliono (in Italian)
Das Kondom des Grauens (in German)
- Info from TV movie (in German)

Ralf König's Internet resources list

Official site (in German)
Official site (in English and German)
A digitalitzation of a Der bewegte Mann page (in German).
Another page with photos and drawings digitalizations (in English and German).
A text about Der bewegte Mann (in German) and its Catalan translation.
Something about Ralf König (in Finnish).
It seems there's a NewsGroup about Ralf König in som News server, called alt.comics.ralf.konig
Unauthorized Vaselinos Fan Club (in English)
Some pages about Ralf, at Denmark, very pretty (in English)
A digitalization of a comic (in German and in Catalan)
General Info about Ralf (in Swedish)
Info about Ralf from his Spaniard editor (in Spanish)
Info about Mal mir mal nen Schwulen - Das Buch über Ralf König, a Book about Ralf (in German)
On-line selling of Ralf's books in different languages from Finland
Review of Bull's Balls (published in the States) (in English, you need Adult Check ID)
Interview in French
Info about the film Das Kondom des Grauens (in English)
Info about Ralf König (in Spanish)
A screen saver
Propaganda of the Catalan translation of Das Kondom des Grauens
Info about the film Der bewegte Mann (in Danish)
Some drawings
A little info (in English)
Info about the film Kondom des Grauens (in English)
Info about a Theater play based on Ralf's Lysistrata (in German)
Saized books (in English)
Digitalized page (in German)
Info about Ralf (in Swedish)
Info about the film Bewegte Mann (in English)

If you have any comments about Ralf König comics, send them to viktor@drac.com.

Pàgina feta per en Víktor Bautista i Roca, el 31/5/96. Última actualització amb data 13/10/98.