Max Goldt

Max Goldt. Born in Göttingen in 1958. First performances: singer in the time of the Neue Deutsche Welle. Wrote
108 columns for Titanic. Since 1996: is one half of the artist duo Katz & Goldt. (The other half: the illustrator Stephan Katz.) Numerous comic books from this collaboration. Writers and musicians. Language artist and satirist.

1997 Kasseler literature prize for grotesque humour. 2008 Kleist Prize, Hugo Ball Prize. 2016 Göttinger Elch.

And of course this praise should not be missing: “Today Max Goldt writes the most beautiful German of all the younger Autoren … The cheerfulness and silence that this language gives its readers is not only due to humour; it is also due to a friendly distancing from the obtrusiveness of a reality that is better avoided sideways. By Gustav Seibt.

Max Goldt reads. From older texts. And from new ones.