Horst von Möllendorff was a German newspaper cartoonist and screenwriter. He was born on 26 April, 1906.

Möllendorf found success as a newspaper cartoonist in the 1930s, writing pantomime comic strips. They were eventually reprinted in book form, under the title "Das Kleine Schmunzelbuch".

During World War II, Möllendorf was practically drafted into Nazi Germany's animated short industry. Film director and animator Hans Fischerkoesen (1896-1973) had been producing animated shorts with then-modern animated techniques, but he was running out of ideas for scripts. He requested that someone else should work as a screenwriter and gag-man for his films, and his superiors recruited Möllendorff.

Möllendorf received screenwriting and/or directing credits for such notable films as "Weather-beaten Melody" (1942), "The Snowman" (1943), and "Wedding in the Coral Sea" (1944). The actual extent of his involvement is unclear, and "Wedding in the Coral Sea" is known to have been mostly produced by uncredited Czech animators. The German film industry simply needed a German to receive the official credit.

Following World War II, Möllendorff returned to newspaper cartooning. His most famous post-war comic strip was "Gewinne mit Kessi und Jan", which was published in the news magazine "Stern" (German for "Star") from the 1950s to 1960s.

Möllendorff died on 17 December 1992, at the age of 86.

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