Max Goldt

Max Goldt is a writer and musician, a language artist and satirist. And difficult to describe. But let’s let a famous colleague of his speak:

Every good person between Passau and Flensburg knows that Max Goldt’s work is very funny. But that, if you read it carefully, it is among the most finely crafted that our literature has to offer, that it contains true wonders of elegance and poetry, and that behind his deceptive flights of thought lie the most precise composition and a dazzlingly bright moral intelligence, still escapes many who are only out for laughs and punchlines. Max Goldt belongs to be read, praised and awarded. (Daniel Kehlmann)

Max Goldt wrote columns for the satirical magazine Titanic for years. Since 1996, he has formed the artist duo Katz & Goldt together with the cartoonist Stephan Katz. Numerous comic books have resulted from this collaboration. In 2022, he received the Jacob Grimm Prize for the German Language.