Max Goldt

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Max Goldt

Author reading

Max Goldt reads new and older texts.

Max Goldt is not only a unique author, it is above all his unmistakable and congenial style of delivery that ennobles his readings to the rank of a literary performance. In his readings, Max Goldt is a master of the softly modulated voice, with which he skewers the small, infamous absurdities of everyday life and reveals a - how could you have missed it before! - parallel world of comedy.

"Every good person between Passau and Flensburg knows that Max Goldt's work is very funny. But the fact 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 his deceptive flights of thought conceal the most precise composition and a dazzlingly bright moral intelligence, still escapes many who are only after laughter and punchlines. Max Goldt should be read, praised and honored."
Daniel Kehlmann

"Hardly anyone knows how to push the supposed sideshows of life into the eye of the beholder like Goldt and to scan today's everyday life for its contradictions and curiosities."
Regula Fuchs, Der Bund, Bern/CH

"Listening to Max Goldt is a double pleasure, because his columns are actually 'lyrics' that require an interpreter."
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

"Very little beats Max Goldt's texts, at most the reading of Max Goldt's texts by Max Goldt. It doesn't get any better than this."
Westfalenpost

"Max Goldt writes the most beautiful German of all younger authors today ... The serenity and silence that this language gives its readers lies not only in humor; also in a friendly distance from the intrusiveness of a reality that is better to push past sideways."
Gustav Seibt

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Biography and bibliography.

Max Goldt, born in Göttingen in 1958, lives in Berlin. Together with Gerd Pasemann, he formed the music duo "Foyer des Arts", in which he declaimed his own texts. Max Goldt has published ten comic books together with Katz. He often travels the German-speaking world as a speaker of his own texts. In 1997 he was awarded the Kassel Literature Prize for grotesque humor, in 1999 the Richard Schönfeld Prize for literary satire, in 2008 the Kleist Prize and the Hugo Ball Prize and in 2016 the Göttinger Elch. In 2022, Max Goldt received the Jacob Grimm Prize for German Language from the Eberhard Schöck Foundation: Max Goldt is "a master of small forms, a strict stylist, but at the same time open to very free poetic forms" and "a powerful critic of sloppy language in which sloppy thinking is revealed".

Most recently published:
Räusper, comic scripts in drama typesetting (2015)
Wipe your lips and smile (2016)

Comic books with Stephan Katz
Slap on the left, slap on the right - the boorish years of a psychotherapist (2020)
Katz & Goldt - The most popular book of these two gentlemen (2018)

Audiobooks
Enjoy your stubbornness at the bend of the river (2021)
The toilet stays white (2020)
World stars in the coniferous forest (2018)

Music CD
Outside the glorious sun (6CD box set 2019)

Price information:

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