Max Goldt liest

That Max Goldt's work is very funny is now known to every good person between Passau and Flensburg. 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

Pointing out the ambiguities in the systematics of things is only one of the honorable tasks to which the German columnist Max Goldt has dedicated himself. Hardly anyone understands like Goldt how to push the supposed sideshows of life into the eye of the beholder 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 need the interpreter. - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Little beats Max Goldt's lyrics, at most Max Goldt's reading of Max Goldt's lyrics. It doesn't get any better than that. - Westphalia Post