A word aesthete and humourist
City Library: Reading with Max Goldt on 8 November, 8 p.m., Central Library, TIETZ
On Friday, 8 November, the multi-award-winning writer and humourist Max Goldt will be reading at the Central Library in the TIETZ. The reading starts at 8 pm. Admission costs 15 euros, concessions 10 euros. Tickets are on sale at the information desk on the ground floor of the TIETZ, reservations can be made at
https://www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsbuchung.
The word aesthete and humourist is famous for his stylistically polished and astutely observed and comical columns, which used to appear regularly in the satirical magazine Titanic and repeatedly in book form. He was part of the music duo Foyer des Arts, in which he declaimed his own texts. Together with Stefan Katz, he published numerous comic books under the name Katz und Goldt.
Comments on Max Goldt:
"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 out for a laugh and punchlines. Max Goldt should be read, praised and honoured."
Author Daniel Kehlmann
"Pointing out the ambiguities in the system of things is just one of the honourable 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 need 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