Max Goldt, born in Göttingen in 1958, lives in Berlin. Together with Gerd Pasemann, he formed the music duo "Foyer des Arts", for which he wrote and sang. Together with Stephan Katz, Max Goldt has published several comic books. 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.
He regularly undertakes reading tours throughout the German-speaking world. At these readings, he always tests unpublished texts that are still in progress, but also reads texts from some of his many previously published books.
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