Max Goldt liest

In the organizer's words:

Reading

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 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

"Pointing out the ambiguities in the system of things is just one of the honorable tasks to which the German columnist Max Goldt has dedicated himself. Hardly anyone understands how to push the supposed sideshows of life into the eye of the beholder and scan today's everyday life for its contradictions and curiosities like Goldt." 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, 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.