Katharina Greve

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Katharina Greve (* 1972 in Hamburg ) is a German comic artist , author and artist . She lives in Berlin .

Life and accomplishments

Katharina Greve began in 1991 at the Technical University of Berlin , a study of architecture , she with the 1999 graduate graduated. Since 2002 she has worked as a freelance comic artist, cartoonist, artist and author. Greve's drawings appear in the satirical magazine Titanic , in the online publishing house electrocomics by Ulli Lust ("The Dramatics of Things" ) , the Berliner Tagesspiegel , the taz , the newspaper neue deutschland and others. Since January 2015, the magazine Das Magazin has published her comic strip "The fat princess Petronia" about the adventures of the (alleged) cousin of the " Little Prince " by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry . From May to September 2016, Greve's comic strip "Die last 17 Tage der Plüm" appeared in the Berlin daily taz . Greve has received several prizes for her work, including the Max and Moritz Prize in 2016 for the best German-language comic strip for Das Hochhaus. 102 floors of life , the German Cartoon Award 2010 and 2017, the Sondermann Award 2013 or 2016 with the art award "Der cheeky Mario".

Webcomic and book "Das Hochhaus"

At the end of September 2015 Greve started with the webcomic " Das Hochhaus ", to which she added a new floor every week until the house reached "102 floors of life" (as the subtitle) after two years. In 2016, Das Hochhaus received the award "Best German-language comic strip" at the Max and Moritz Prize . In the Süddeutsche Zeitung "Das Hochhaus" was described as "one of the most original works of the Ninth Art of the recent past", the Neue Zürcher Zeitung judged similarly . The high-rise webcomic was shown in several international exhibitions, including at the Goethe Institutes in Naples and Lyon, as part of a retrospective in the Caricatura Gallery in Kassel, at the 19th International Comicsalon Napoli COMICON, in the Krems Caricature Museum, in the Erika -Fuchs-Haus , in the literature café of the Adalbert-Stifter-Haus in Linz and in the Museum of Architecture and Engineering of North Rhine- Westphalia. The webcomic was also published in 2017 as a book by avant-verlag and as a book roll by Round not Square.

Comic book "A man goes to the ceiling"

At the end of 2009, the Leipzig publisher Die Biblyothek Greve's first comic A man goes to the ceiling . The story of this graphic novel is about the elevator operator Franz Fink, who works in the Berlin television tower . One day he discovers a parallel world in its shaft, in which he can emancipate himself from gravity. In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Andreas Platthaus called the “late debut” a “great success”, the content of which was inspired by the French draftsman Marc-Antoine Mathieu . The Berliner Tagesspiegel described the book as “the most original and imaginative Berlin comic for a long time” as well as “a festival for architecture fans and an ode to the possibilities of the comic”. The architecture trade journal Bauwelt also reviewed the work and stated that “it does not always have to be a misfortune when an architect decides against her profession”. At the Erlangen Comic Salon in 2010, the book received the ICOM Independent Comic Prize for outstanding artwork .

Comic novel "Patchwork"

Under the title Patchwork - Frau Doktor Waldbeck sews a family , Greve's second comic novel was published in September 2011 by the publishing house in Gütersloh . In the story, the successful transplant researcher Linda Waldbeck sews up her children herself when she later felt a desire to have children. From what she fishes out of the waste bin of her laboratory; Greve thus varied the Frankenstein theme. The unusual family is then followed by the tabloids and the arms industry. FAZ -Comic critic Andreas Platthaus calls the book's subtitle alone a veritable stroke of genius: “Nobody has ever taken the term patchwork so literally.” Good and bad are clearly distributed in the subversive work, but differently than expected. “And that makes the comic almost badly good,” says Platthaus. In the Berlin Tagesspiegel, Klaus Schikowski sees the band's biting and subversive humor tie in with the tradition of the sharp parodies of the magazine MAD , as well as with the satirical and subversive short stories by American and French underground illustrators. The over-the-top social satire is staged in an original way and staged with virtuosity. Even if not all of the characters convinced him, the book is not only “extremely readable, but also a remarkably pleasurable anachronistic tale in the age of graphic novels and precisely for that reason a pleasing exception in German comics.” For André Poloczek , Greve “skilfully feeds her subject Suspense elements that do justice to any well-built crime novel ”. In the taz he also refers to how much a right-wing radical and violent figure from the book makes this comic novel breathtakingly contemporary in the times of the " NSU Nazi bombers". In the Strapazin , Christian Gasser emphasizes that the story is also “a patchwork”: Greve continues her extraordinary idea imaginatively and sews together the set pieces of various genres and topics “with clean pen strokes and fine humor”.

Quirky cartoon about the Pope's resignation

After Pope Benedict XVI. announced his resignation on February 11, 2013, a pope cartoon by Greve received extraordinary attention. The drawing was the cartoon for the day before Benedikt's announcement in a tear-off calendar from Berlin's Espresso Verlag . The Pope sees that he has picked six correct numbers and the super number in the lottery and thinks: “Holy straw! Tomorrow I'll quit! ”The drawing was originally created in 2011 for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung as a tribute to the late artist Loriot and his famous lottery sketch. As a bizarre coincidence, the supposedly prophetic image was shared several thousand times on the social networks Facebook and Twitter within hours. Many media reported about it, also in the USA ("Holy straw sack! Tomorrow I quit!"), Hungary and Russia.

The drawing is in the collection published by Eichborn Verlag in Greves at the end of November 2013. It actually contains sausage inverted animal with other cartoons and comic strips.

Comic novel Hotel Hades

Greve's third comic novel Hotel Hades was published by Egmont Graphic Novel in September 2014 . It is about the takeaway owner Peter, the famous writer Martha and her lover Florian. They are shot in front of Peter's snack bar and travel together by ship to the afterlife. After completing the bureaucratic entry formalities, they arrive in a mega-city reminiscent of tourist castles, which is structured like the ancient Greek realm of the dead. There are the dreary Asphodelos reasons, the colorful Elysion , which is entertained by events, and the tormented place of Tartaros . Peter finds his happiness in the Hades kitchen, Martha has to atone even though she once bought a VIP ticket for paradise, Florian enjoys his life in the exclusive Elysion with other prominent residents from world history. When Peter happens to meet Martha (Sisyphus, Ivan the Terrible and Adolf Hitler live in the cells next to her), he tries to free her from Tartaros. As in a classical tragedy , a commenting choir appears in the book . A clear color concept separates the different locations of the story.

In the Tagesspiegel , Thomas Hummitzsch calls the comic novel a "wonderfully profound, laughing-muscle-demanding satire" in which the religious and political ideologues of this world are also "excellently targeted". Greve shows what the comic medium is capable of telling: "In Hotel Hades , mythology meets irony and black humor joins bitter sarcasm. Greve's underworld is a parallel universe in which even the dead experience capitalist exploitation. Death was seldom absurd and weird, "writes Hummitzsch. On Swiss radio and television (SRF) , Christian Gasser judges: "Greve presents a tricky, extremely clever and always amusing comic that mixes ancient Hades with beliefs from other cultures and religions. Greves cools down stylized drawings and the subtle color scheme nasty joke in addition. " In the comic magazine Strapazin , Gasser also praises the fact that the coloring means that you "never lose your bearings in the labyrinthine realm of the dead", but that you enjoy a "sly story, sharpened with nasty humor". Jacek Slaski also emphasizes the color concept in tip Berlin magazine : "In a laconic way, Greve constructs the concept of hell as a modern non-place that is concerned with efficiency and economy. Her smooth, stylized drawings convey the abysses of hellish eternity through which she guides with a color system . " In his review on Deutschlandradio Kultur , Frank Meyer appreciates Greve's "dry humor" and her "playful malevolence" as well as the "precisely drawn, stylized forms" that she "used in earlier work" and sees a reference to Greve's training: " Your architecture studies seem to be having an impact, your Hades vision is also an architecture inferno. " For FAZ editor Andreas Platthaus , the book, in which Greve tells "with bitter sarcasm of the bizarre fate of her protagonists", is one of the five best comics of 2014.

Publications

Own works

Works in anthologies (selection)

Illustrations (selection)

  • Dude what's up? How I learned that it is never too late for something new , author: Jörg Thomann, illustrations: Katharina Greve, Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2014, 256 pages, ISBN 978-3-404-60814-0
  • My best year so far , author: Daniela Böhle, illustrations: Katharina Greve, Satyr Verlag, Berlin 2016, 256 pages, ISBN 978-3-944035-73-4
  • The Little Garden Failure - About happiness and failure in the countryside , author: Stefan Schwarz , illustrations: Katharina Greve, Aufbau Verlag , Berlin 2019, 175 pages, ISBN 978-3-351-03770-3 .

Artistic work

  • 2001: Green strip - readings in the wild, performance during the "Temporary Gardens" in Berlin
  • 2002: Meat 1 - sewn chops, object and shopping - holy products in shopping carts, installation, Saar Ferngas Young Art Award 2002, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum , Ludwigshafen, then Kunstverein Trier
  • 2003: Genii loci - The ghosts of the place, installation during the permanent exhibition "tempart", 1st International Symposium for Visual Temporary Art in Halle (Saale)
  • 2004: HeimVORTEIL - practical things for an optimized home (with Andreas Hansen), art products
  • 2009: FERNSEHGARTEN - a technology-free video installation, art festival 48 hours Neukölln , Berlin
  • 2010: LOCAL TALKS - A three-dimensional garden comic, Art Festival 48 Hours Neukölln , Berlin
  • 2016: REMAKE - a technology-free film installation, installations during the exhibition "Great Cinema - Cartoons for Film", Caricatura Galerie, Galerie für Komische Kunst, Kassel
  • 2017: "My husband is also an atheist", solo exhibition in the Caricatura Galerie Galerie für Komische Kunst, Kassel

Awards

  • 2010: ICOM “Outstanding Artwork” award for A man goes to the ceiling
  • 2010: 1st place at the German Cartoon Prize for New Talents 2010
  • 2013: Sondermann Award , which honors her "art of graphic scarcity as well as the narrative expansion of a subject into grotesque and satire".
  • 2013: 2nd place in the cartoon prize for mathematics of the German Mathematicians Association .
  • 2015: Two 2nd places in the caricature competition "No more fun" of the Federal Working Group of Senior Citizens' Organizations and the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs
  • 2016: Max and Moritz Prize , Best German-language comic strip for "The high-rise. 102 floors of life"
  • 2016: 1st prize at the art prize "Der cheeky Mario" (awarded in 2017)
  • 2017: German Cartoon Prize, 3rd place
  • 2018: Rudolph-Dirks-Award , category experimental / alternative for "Das Hochhaus"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. see the Greves website with further references: http://katharinagreve.de/
  2. electrocomics. Retrieved December 7, 2017 .
  3. Sunday - The Day for Big Answers . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 19, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2011. 
  4. Katharina Greve: The truth: "Front door to happiness" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 26, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on April 3, 2020]).
  5. Enough brooding! . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 10, 2010. Retrieved December 18, 2011. 
  6. KA.GREVE: Meanwhile ... On television . In: Verdi Publik , No. 06/07/2009. Retrieved February 12, 2013. 
  7. Announcement on the magazine's Facebook page
  8. Impending end of the world in series - The last 17 days of Plüm.
  9. Best German-language comic strip . In: Comic Salon . ( comic-salon.de [accessed December 7, 2017]).
  10. a b Book Fair Blog: German Cartoon Prize 2010 , Frankfurter Buchmesse. October 8, 2010. Archived from the original on October 31, 2014. Retrieved on February 12, 2013. 
  11. a b Cartoons: Weird Outlook . In: Der Tagesspiegel . October 9, 2010. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
  12. a b German Cartoon Prize 2010: Award for cartoonist for the first time . HR online. October 8, 2010. Archived from the original on October 12, 2010. Retrieved on February 21, 2012.
  13. a b Frankfurt Book Fair German Cartoon Prize 2017
  14. a b Communication on the Sondermann Prize 2013 to Hilke Raddatz and Katharina Greve . Sondermann Association. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
  15. a b ART PRICE OF THE CHEER MARIO
  16. THE HIGH-RISE
  17. Bernd Kronsbein: DAS HOCHHAUS - start of construction of the web comics by Katharina Greve . In: Comic.de , September 29, 2015. Retrieved January 5, 2016. 
  18. Graphic Novels: Katharina Greve's webcomic starts with lust for murder in the basement . In: Berliner Morgenpost , September 29, 2015. Retrieved January 5, 2016. 
  19. Prize winners. comic Salon Erlangen, May 2016, accessed on May 28, 2016 .
  20. Thomas von Steinaecker: "More light!", Stupid cow! In: sueddeutsche.de . 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed December 7, 2017]).
  21. Christian Gasser: Whoever climbs the storeys can experience something | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 16, 2017, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed December 7, 2017]).
  22. ^ Goethe Institute Naples Exhibition Katharina Greve: Komische Kunst
  23. ^ Comics - exhibitions and encounters: Katharina Greve, Arne Jysch and Reinhard Kleist - Goethe-Institut France. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
  24. ^ A b Caricatura Galerie Kassel: My husband is also an atheist
  25. COMICON 2017
  26. THE TOP in KREMS
  27. Artists in Residence and DAS HOCHAUS in KREMS
  28. Erika-Fuchs-Haus - Museum for comics and language art, special exhibition - The best German comics! Max and Moritz Prize 2016
  29. NEXTCOMIC in the literature café - KATHARINA GREVE presents her award-winning webcomic "The high-rise. 102 floors of life" - satellite exhibition on NEXTCOMIC 2017 ( Memento from August 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  30. DAS HOCHHAUS in the exhibition "Everyone wants to live. Fair. Social. Affordable."
  31. Cross section of society. Retrieved December 7, 2017 .
  32. ^ Andreas Platthaus , "In die Quere" , FAZ , January 9, 2010
  33. Lars von Törne, "A city for all cases , Tagesspiegel , October 7/8, 2009
  34. Lars von Törne, Between Heaven and Earth , Tagesspiegel , October 30, 2009
  35. Brigitte Schultz: A man goes to the ceiling . bauwelt.de. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
  36. Dietrich Grünewald: Outstanding artwork: "A man goes to the ceiling" . comic-i.com. Retrieved February 12, 2013.
  37. Andreas Platthaus: Patchwork family to sew yourself . In: FAZ , October 5, 2011. ISSN  0174-4909 . Retrieved February 12, 2013. 
  38. ^ Klaus Schikowski: Subversive family joys . In: Tagesspiegel , February 21, 2012. Retrieved July 10, 2012. 
  39. André Poloczek: Patchwork comic about being different: Doctor Beckwald is now cleaning . In: TAZ , December 27, 2011. ISSN  0931-9085 . Retrieved February 12, 2013. 
  40. Christian Gasser: The family from the leftover box . In: Strapazin , July 1, 2012. Retrieved July 10, 2012. 
  41. FAZ: On the death of Loriot - farewell to the master . In: FAZ , August 28, 2011. Retrieved February 12, 2013. 
  42. Miriam Binner: Divine inspiration? How Katharina Greve landed the perfect hit of her life with an @ pontifex cartoon and thanks to @K_SA . In: 140z.de , February 14, 2013. Accessed February 21, 2013. 
  43. Lars Wienand: Pope's resignation: cartoon calendar already knew it on Sunday . In: Rhein-Zeitung , February 11, 2013. Accessed February 12, 2013. 
  44. Birger Menke: Bizarre about the Pope's resignation: Prophetic comic, mysterious lightning . In: Spiegel Online , February 12, 2013. 
  45. Ludwig Obermeier: Cartoon reveals: Pope resigns because of winning the lottery . In: Salzburger Nachrichten , February 12, 2013. 
  46. FAZ: Curiosities about the Pope's resignation - “Holy straw sack! I'll quit tomorrow ” . In: FAZ , February 12, 2013. 
  47. David Marquard: Caricaturist predicts Pope's resignation: Katharina Greve in an interview . In: detektor.fm , February 12, 2013. 
  48. BILD newspaper: cartoon calendar announced Pope's resignation! . In: bild.de , February 12, 2013. 
  49. Evening newspaper: Calendar sheet drawing - bizarre! Calendar predicts Pope's resignation . In: Abendzeitung , February 12, 2013. 
  50. msnNOW.com: German calendar might have freakishly predicted the pope's resignation . In: msnNOW.com , February 12, 2013. Archived from the original on February 15, 2013. 
  51. index.hu: Egy karikatúra megjósolta a pápa lemondását . In: index.hu , February 12, 2013. 
  52. ^ Radio Voice of Russia: German caricature predicts Pope's resignation . In: Voice of Russia , February 13, 2013. Archived from the original on February 18, 2013. Retrieved on February 21, 2013. 
  53. Katharina Greve: Actually, sausage is an inverted animal . Eichborn publishing house. Archived from the original on November 13, 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
  54. Thomas Hummitzsch: "Hotel Hades" by Katharina Greve: Sisyphos in the wheel . In: Tagesspiegel , November 23, 2014. Accessed January 21, 2015. 
  55. Christian Gasser: A graphic novel shows an absurd vision of the afterlife . In: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) , September 26, 2014. Accessed January 21, 2015. 
  56. ^ Christian Gasser: Hotel Hades, all-inclusive . In: Strapazin , No. 117. Retrieved on January 21, 2015. 
  57. Jacek Slaski: "Hotel Hades" by Katharina Greve . In: tip Berlin , No. 18/2014. Retrieved January 21, 2015. 
  58. Frank Meyer: No justice anywhere . In: Deutschlandradio Kultur , October 17, 2014. Accessed January 21, 2015. 
  59. Andreas Platthaus: The best comics 2014 - Andreas Platthaus' favorites . In: Tagesspiegel , December 1, 2014. Accessed January 21, 2015. 
  60. ^ The skyscraper - Round not Square . In: Round not Square . ( round-not-square.com [accessed December 7, 2017]).
  61. The fat princess Petronia. Retrieved on April 3, 2020 (German).
  62. The little garden failure. Accessed April 3, 2020 (English).
  63. Green strips in the wild . temporaeregaerten.de. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
  64. ^ Gassen, Richard, et al., Exhibition catalog , Ludwigshafen 2002, ISBN 3-934713-06-8 , pp. 64–67
  65. ^ Redevelopment: East German cities want to save baroque houses . In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 4, 2007. Retrieved December 18, 2011. 
  66. Kirsten Niemann: Between Art and Kitsch: Creative nonsense from Berlin studios - design that is fun . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 19, 2006. Retrieved December 18, 2011. 
  67. TV garden - a technology-free video installation by Katharina Greve . 48- Stunden-neukoelln.de. Archived from the original on July 16, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
  68. ^ Local calls - a three-dimensional garden comic . 48- Stunden-neukoelln.de. Archived from the original on January 3, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
  69. Great cinema
  70. ^ Remake in the Caricatura Gallery
  71. Press release of the German Mathematicians Association on the Media and Cartoon Prize 2013 . German Mathematicians Association. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
  72. ^ Lars von Törne: International Literature Festival Berlin - In Hades all hell is going on . In: Tagesspiegel , September 4, 2014. Accessed January 21, 2015. 
  73. Rudolph Dirks Award - International Prize for Graphic Literature of GERMAN COMIC CON. Accessed January 30, 2019 (German).