Katz and Goldt

Katz and Goldt is an artist duo founded in 1996, consisting of the draftsman Stephan Katz and the author Max Goldt . Sequences of images appear regularly in the satirical magazine Titanic and the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . In 2004 they founded the label Rumpfkluft, which sells T-shirts printed according to their designs.

style

The joke drawn by Katz and Goldt is fed by the virtuosity of Max Goldt's language, a writer who was awarded the Kleist Prize for his literary work , and Stephan Katz's cartoon skills, who developed a pseudo-naive drawing style the finely chiselled texts by Goldt are in the greatest possible contrast. Over the years the drawings have become more detailed and allusive and have been supplemented with comments on the plot, which take place as small secondary scenes on the edge of the pages. The ambiguous picture stories from a maximum of two pages inspire all sorts of associations with social, cultural and also political phenomena and discourses. The skilful digression comes out completely without punch lines.

Works

• When the adoptees bring death into the home . Jochen Enterprises , 1997.
• Coke to forget the mice . Jochen Enterprises, 1998.
• I rats . Jochen Enterprises, 1999.
• Oh whipped cream! There must be people here. Carlsen Comics , 2001, ISBN 3-551-75823-9 .
• The salt in the Las Vegas owl . Carlsen Comics, 2002, ISBN 3-551-75825-5 .
• Adieu Sweet train station . Rowohlt Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-499-23896-9 .
• The maltreatment of imperfect automatons . Rowohlt Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-499-24134-X .
• The globe is our pony, the cosmos is our real horse . Edition Moderne 2007, ISBN 3-03731-015-4 .
• Wellness saves the hyphen . Edition Moderne 2008, ISBN 978-3-03731-037-3 .
• Misfortune with all sorts of dead . Edition Moderne 2010, ISBN 978-3-03731-068-7 .
• Katz and Goldt as well as the Berlin TV tower from the perspective of someone who is too lazy to push his cactus aside . Edition Moderne 2012, ISBN 978-3-03731-094-6 .
• The tree is delicious, Graf Zeppelin . Edition Moderne 2014, ISBN 978-3-03731-123-3
• Fancy some percussion, my little wuschel? Edition Moderne 2016, ISBN 978-3-03731-151-6
• The fourteenth book of these two gentlemen . Edition Moderne 2019, ISBN 978-3-03731-183-7

Quotes

“It should be expressly emphasized that Max Goldt also receives the Kleist Prize for the comics and that part of the recognition goes to his comic duo partner Stephan Katz. They are a central part of his work, and if he had created nothing but them, he would still be entitled to the prize. Here, too, Goldt's approach ennobles the apparently dubious, and from the energy of popular forms his art gains a strength and originality that could never have come from the seminar rooms of the universities. "

- Daniel Kehlmann in his eulogy for Max Goldt on the occasion of the Kleist Prize 2008.

Awards

• 2005: German Caricature Award , “Winged Pencil” in bronze
• 2006: Max and Moritz Prize for the best international scenario

Web links

• Official website
• Article about Katz and Goldt at NZZ online
• Katz and Goldt - the duo that does what duos should do Article by Andreas Platthaus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.goethe.de/kue/lit/prj/com/pch/kug/de8832455.htm
2. ↑ Lars Weisbrod: German Comics: Lesbians with an open ear . In: The time . No. 22/2014 ( online ).
3. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comics/der-baum-ist-koestlich-graf-zeppelin-von-katz-und-goldt-scharf-aber-menschenfreund/11231502.html
4. ↑ The sideways walker. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 17, 2010, accessed July 2, 2018 .