appeared 75 years ago, on 13 December 1934, in the Berliner Illustrierte "the first history of the series "Father and Son", which was preparing a long three years to 1937 a week children and parents need to relax. Under the pseudonym "eop" (eoplauen) hid the Artist and illustrator Kurt Erich Ohser, the long time with Erich Kaestner was friends and worked together with him. 
After Kästner works by the Nazis on 10 May 1933 at the Berlin Opera House was burned, was rejected Ohser's request to take in the "Reich Association of German Press" 1934 first, later withdrew the rejection, however, and was able in 1934 by supporting the Ullstein publishing the series in the "Berliner Illustrierte" . appear But the end came in 1937 for publication.
Erich Ohser made his distaste for the Nazi regime no secret, and so in 1944 he was arrested by denunciation to the Gestapo. Under circumstances not fully explained, he took in the night of 5 to 6 April 1944 in the detention center Alt-Moabit life came to a trial before Freislers infamous People's Court before.
addition to his world-famous comic strips of "father and son he left behind a vast range of artistic work (cartoons, personal projects, landscape, nude and animal studies and portraits of his contemporaries). 2003 was the occasion of the 100th Birthday (on March 18, 1903), a picture story for a stamp sheetlet the post selected. His grave is on the main cemetery in Plauen, in the immediate vicinity of his son.
The Foundation eoplauen "can be reached via
www.eoplauen.de / site / eostiftung.htm.
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