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Portrait of comic artist Holger Aue
The Motomania man
His page is far back in MOTORRAD, but many readers turn to it first. Holger Aue has been making MOTORRAD readers smile since October 1994. That means 577 episodes in a row, because Motomania never failed. And Aue still has a lot in store.
Stefan Kaschel
02/29/2016
Of course, Holger Aue also gets sick from time to time. Who won’t? Even here, in the fresh and hearty country air of the small village somewhere on the outskirts of Hamburg. But he still delivered on time, because Aue produces just in case. His heroes run, rush, fall, clean and screw on the wall of his study in the little red brick house for a few notebooks in advance. Aue exclusive, so to speak.
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Its protagonists – as MOTORRAD readers you know them inside out: Harry Quiddelbacher with his orange, forever broken 750 Laverda, Bernd “Brembo” Breitscheid with a self-made Rau Kawasaki, Hinnerk “Wheelie” Wippermann with his 900 Cagiva Elefant or Holli Hatzenbach with his Moto Guzzi Le Mans II – you have to like these guys. Hatzenbach is unmistakably the artist Alter Ego, the surnames of the heroes reveal intimate route knowledge of his favorite run, the Nurburgring-Nordschleife. Since he stood there for the first time at the ticket booth (“back then the round cost six marks”), he has fallen for the Green Hell, even addicted. The Eifel course is therefore not only the setting for his comics, but also for his instructor work with the MOTORRAD action team. When the going gets tough, he circles the course in eight minutes. Connoisseurs know what that means.
So it’s no wonder that the often bizarre experiences of his north German boys – and those of the many other characters that Aue came up with around his motorcycle theme in 22 years – are not just any fantasy products. These lean angles, braking points, crazy maneuvers – those are Aue’s stories. Or at least it’s his pointed view of things, because over the years the 56-year-old has developed his own, very mischievous, philanthropic view of the typical, amusing and funny in our motorcycle world. He then mercilessly exaggerates it, gets to the point, with a captivating eye for the details. “You have to live that”, Aue is certain.
Anyone who takes a look in their garage understands. There is a Le Mans II, his first Guzzi, which he never sold, but has optimized all the more intensively over the past 30 years. Holger uses them on extensive country road tours. For the race track, his third great passion besides drawing and partner Doris, he now has better things. For example his (extremely modified) racing Guzzi, his equipment for the “Supertwins” at art motor. “Real 120 hp, 175 kilos without fuel!” Aue’s eyes shine, he is really proud of that. He can too, as well as his lap time. “1.36.5 minutes in Oschersleben with the Guzzi. And with modern high-performance material, 1.33 times also work. ”That’s tight, others can’t even get there with a moon rocket. Aue draws the line on his Guzzi as neatly as the one with the pencil – which has already earned him World Cup appearances at the Speedweek in Oschersleben. And a win in the fishing port race.
The southern European collection in its garage shows that the northern lights of the Aue prefer it Italian. A dark green Guzzi T3, a Ducati 998, a Gilera Saturno and a Ducati 900 SS, which he is currently renovating with meticulous care. Nevertheless, he couldn’t leave the KTM RC 8 R. “Because it’s great fun with its great handling and the ingeniously pushing V2 on the racetrack.” He once had a BMW S 1000 RR when he was accompanying its market launch for BMW with drawings. “That was really funny because in Munich they were quite ready to poke themselves up,” he remembers. “After four months, BMW wanted the bike back. Watt courage, datt courage! But I’m more into two-cylinder engines anyway. ”Aue’s experience with the concentrated control electronics of the BMW are not really surprising. His world works more analogue than digital anyway.
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With pencil, ink and color
You believe that immediately, given the tube TV in his living room and hundreds of crayons at his work place. Computer? Did he – for writing e-mails. His comics, however, are created very traditionally with pencil, ink and color. Doris then colors them by hand before they appear in MOTORRAD or in bound form by Lappan-Verlag. This publishing house, which only works in cartoons and comics, publishes Aue’s collected works. “It’s going really well,” he says happily. “I sell more than 10,000 pieces in Germany alone.” The draftsman would never have dreamed of that when he was doing an apprenticeship as a freight forwarder after school. After that it got more exciting: four years in the German armed forces as a commander on an M48, the predecessor of the Leopard. “You don’t trust me at all, do you?” Says Aue happily. “The M48 had a displacement of 35 liters and ate 1000 liters of super per 100 kilometers. It was really fun to drive this 50-ton ship through botany. “
The draftsman’s eyes shine – and anyone who discovers a tiny bit of ambivalence in his nickel-eyed and braided appearance and his passion for internal combustion engines is probably right. Especially when he hears that Aue then worked as a tree doctor for two years. He used the Bundeswehr money to buy his first Guzzi, he adds, almost apologetically. “And I’ve already drawn there, including my superiors.” The comrades laughed at each other, but the ranks above him didn’t. After all: his decision to draw matured. After joining the federal government, he studied illustration and communication design.
“Intense and long,” he remembers today. “Especially for a long time. That was a great time. No money – but anyway. ”In order to improve the last point a little, Aue did what he loved to do. He was out and about with his Le Mans and his buddies – and drew his experiences. With these drawings he applied to the then MOTORRAD editor-in-chief Friedhelm Fiedler. He was thrilled at the time. We still are today. Go on, Holger! For our side one.
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