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Gerhard Fieber was born in 1916.
His passion for drawing already started in his school days where he caricatured his teachers. He studied art and print in Berlin and worked as a draftsman for advertising and humor for the press. In the 30's he worked for the publicity film department of the Universum Film AG (Ufa) and got in touch with the most important creators of promotional films.

Between 1942 and 1945 he was head drawer and art director for the Ufa subsidiary "Deutche Zeichenfilm GmbH". There he realised together with other artists the animation film "Armer Hansi - Poor Hansi" (1943). First Fieber already worked on illustrations for the Olympic Games of Berlin and for boxing matches of the legendary Max Schmeling.

Gerhard Fieber's job was to manage the German animation film to Disney level.
He moved with the animation film studio to Dachau/Munich because of the bombardement of Berlin.

Gerhard Fieber told in a later interview: "This was a bad time. During the working hours you were busy with trickfilm figures, at the same time you could see prisoners on the street who were harnessed in front of waggons as a replacement for horses. Nevertheless you had to draw funny figures - it was horrible".

After the war Fieber became an employee for the newfounded DEFA and presented "Purzelbaum ins Leben - Forward Roll into Life" (1946) for the East German cinemas. For the weekly show "Der Augenzeuge - The Eyewitness" of DEFA he drew the first German post-war animation object: "Der U-Bahn-Schreck - The Subway Fright". Beside it he also drew promotion films for the SED.

Fieber founded the EOS Film Production in Bad Sachsa in 1948 which grew into the biggest German animation studio during the years of economic miracle. With "Tobias Knopp, Abenteuer eines Junggesellen" - after a book by Wilhelm Busch - he realised in 1949 the first full-lenght animation film ot the post-war time. The voices were spoken by well-known German actors like Erich Ponto, Günter Lüders, Grethe Weiser and René Deltgen.
The EOS film production concentrated on the up-and-coming promotion film. Fieber created works for authorities, labor unions, parties and economic companies.
Gerhard Fieber attended to television in the 60's with the rise of this medium and got several awards (among others the "Filmband in Gold").

A cooperation with Franz Thies (Neue Filmproduktion Wiesbaden) started and offered Gerhard Fieber those animation works, which are still "alive" and extreme popular - "Die Mainzelmännchen" (by Creator Wolf Gerlach).

Today Gerhard Fieber he counts to "the last Mohicans" from a time where animation films were completely produced by hand.
His creativity and his ideas are unbroken till today. He still designs caricatures or spontaneous special works.