Nicolas Mahler: Komplett Kafka

In the organizer's words:

Franz Kafka not only wrote prose, he was also passionate about drawing: "You, I was once a great draughtsman," he wrote half ironically, half proudly to his long-term fiancée Felice Bauer in 1913 about his artistic ambitions. His drawing had once given him "more satisfaction than anything else". So what could be more fitting than to honor him with a comic biography on his anniversary? And then by Nicolas Mahler, who has a similarly minimalist drawing style?

Mahler presents Kafka's life and work in an inimitably witty and pointed way and does not shy away from the really big questions: Why did Kafka's plan to write a series of cheap travel guides fail? Who wrote the sequel to one of his most important works, "The Retransformation of Gregor Samsa"? And what was the "white slave" all about? The answers and much more can be found in Complete Kafka.

Nicolas Mahler, born in 1969, lives and works as a comic artist and illustrator in Vienna. His comics and cartoons appear in newspapers and magazines such as Die Zeit, NZZ am Sonntag, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and Titanic. He has received several awards for his extensive work, including the Max und Moritz Prize for "Best German-language Comic Artist" in 2010, the Literaturhäuser Prize in 2015 and the Sondermann Prize in 2019. Mahler is artistic director of the School of Poetry in Vienna.

Moderation: Arnold Maxwill

As part of the Dortmund Comic Reading Week of schauraum: comic + cartoon.
This is a cooperation event of schauraum: comic + cartoon, Fritz-Hüser-Institut and literaturhaus.dortmund.