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Nicolas Mahler
Nicolas Mahler (born 1969) is an Austrian cartoonist and illustrator. ''Die Zeit'', '' NZZ am Sonntag'', '' Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung'' and ''Titanic'' print his comics. He is known for his comics ''Flaschko'' and ''Kratochvil'' and for his literary adaptations in comic form. His comics have been adapted into films and theatre plays. He was awarded the Max & Moritz Prize and the Preis der Literaturhäuser. Life and career Mahler was born in Vienna. He is an autodidact, and started working as an illustrator soon after leaving school. Mahler draws for Austrian, German and Swiss newspapers, magazines and anthologies. He has published over twenty books, including in France and Canada. His ''Flaschko''-comics were adapted as animated films and screened at various short film festivals in Europe. His comic ''Kratochvil'' was performed as a puppet play in Switzerland, Austria and France. In 2003, together with and , he founded the ''Kabinett für Wort und Bild'' in Vienn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max & Moritz Prize
The Max & Moritz Prize is a prize for comic books, comic strips, and other similar materials which has been awarded at each of the biennial International Comics Shows of Erlangen since 1984. It is open to all material published in Germany. 1984 * Best German-language Comic Artist: * Best Comic Strip: ''Hägar the Horrible'', by Dik Browne * Best German-language Comic/Comic-related Publication: ''Edition Comic Art'' (series) (Carlsen Verlag) 1986 * Best German-language Comic Artist: Matthias Schultheiss * Best Comic Strip: ''Animal Crackers'' by Rog Bollen * Best German-language Comic/Comic-related Publication: ** ''Macao - Internationale Comics'' (Macao Books, Wuppertal) ** ' Comic Art Magazine (Zürich, Munich) ** ''Coeurs de sable'', by Jacques de Loustal & () ** ''Peter and the Wolf'', by Jörg Müller & Loriot () 1988 * Best German-language Comic Artist: Franziska Becker * Best Comic Strip: ''Mafalda'', by Quino * Best German-language Comic/Comic-related Publicatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (commonly ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book. It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating a new era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. The titular character Alice shares her given name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carrol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goethe Institut
The Goethe-Institut (, GI, en, Goethe Institute) is a non-profit German cultural association operational worldwide with 159 institutes, promoting the study of the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural exchange and relations. Around 246,000 people take part in these German courses per year. The Goethe-Institut fosters knowledge about Germany by providing information on German culture, society and politics. This includes the exchange of films, music, theatre, and literature. Goethe cultural societies, reading rooms, and examination and language centres have played a role in the cultural and educational policies of Germany for more than 60 years. It is named after German poet and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The Goethe-Institut e.V. is autonomous and politically independent. Partners of the institute and its centres are public and private cultural institutions, the German federal states, local authorities and the world of commerce. Much of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Welt
''Die Welt'' ("The World") is a German national daily newspaper, published as a broadsheet by Axel Springer SE. ''Die Welt'' is the flagship newspaper of the Axel Springer publishing group. Its leading competitors are the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' and the ''Frankfurter Rundschau''. The modern paper takes a self-described "liberal Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan" position in editing, but it is generally considered to be conservative."The World from Berlin" ''Der Spiegel'', 28 December 2009."Divided on unification" ''The Economist'', 4 October 2010. As of 2016, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Association
L'Association is a Franco-Belgian publishing houses, French publishing house located in Paris which publishes comic books. It was founded in May 1990 by Jean-Christophe Menu, Lewis Trondheim, David B., Mattt Konture, Patrice Killoffer, Stanislas (comics), Stanislas, and Mokeït. L'Association is one of the most important publishers to come out of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics in the 1990s, and remains highly regarded. They were among the first to publish authors such as Joann Sfar and Marjane Satrapi, and also are known for publishing French translations of the work of North American cartoonists like Julie Doucet and Jim Woodring. ''Mon Lapin quotidien'' (MLQ, formely ''Lapin'' and ''Mon Lapin'') is the group's magazine. History The forerunner of the association was founded in 1984 as "Aanal", or Association pour l’Apologie du 9e Art Libre. Various other structures were set up by the founding members, and in 1990 they decided to return to an independent organisation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sondermann
Sondermann is a cartoon character of the painter and cartoonist Bernd Pfarr, which appeared, until August 1994, in a column of the same name by the writer Simone Borowiak and, from 1987 to August 2004, regularly in the satirical magazine ''Titanic''. Model for the name was Gerhard Sondermann, the first publisher of ''Titanic''. Sondermann is a creation of an illustrator, who, as Bernd Pfarr himself once said, wants "to drive reality out of the pictures" (german: "den Bildern die Realität austreiben"). The comic The world of Sondermann is subject to its own, individual laws: "Negro scrubbing" (German: "Negerschrubben") is a traditional ritual in Sondermann's company, Sondermann and his chef subdue their hunger by "huddling softly together" (German: "sich weich aneinander schmiegen"), consuming a Schnitzel or taking out the trash are common yoga exercises, and Sondermann defeats God (German: "den lieben Gott") in Tennis. Sondermann's world is populated by strange creatures: * a ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldegg
Goldegg, also called Goldegg im Pongau, is a municipality in St. Johann im Pongau District, in the state of Salzburg in Austria. Geography It is situated on a sunny plateau north of the Salzach River, the so-called « Sunny Terrace » at a distance of south of the City of Salzburg. In fact, the village owes its name (“Goldegg at the lake”) to a small lake at which it is located. There are approximately 2200 inhabitants living in the local area, which covers 33,1 square kilometres. The municipal area includes the cadastral communities of Buchberg, Goldegg, and Weng. History Archaeological findings in the area date back to the Hallstatt era, where a settlement was located on the mountain pass road up the Gastein Valley and across the Hohe Tauern mountain range. Goldegg Castle was built in the 14th century. The Lords of Goldegg had sided with the Wittelsbach king Louis IV of Germany in the conflict with his Habsburg The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Standard
''Der Standard'' is an Austrian daily newspaper published in Vienna. History and profile ''Der Standard'' was founded by Oscar Bronner as a financial newspaper and published its first edition on 19 October 1988. German media company Axel Springer acquired a stake in the paper in 1988 and sold it in 1995. Bronner remains the paper's publisher, Martin Kotynek is editor-in-chief. ''Der Standard'' sees itself as—in a Continental European sense (socially and culturally, but not economically)— liberal and independent. Third parties have described the paper as having a left-liberal stance. Until 2007, the editor-in-chief of the daily was Gerfried Sperl, Alexandra Föderl-Schmid succeeded him in the post. In 2002 the paper was one of four quality daily newspapers with nationwide distribution along with '' Salzburger Nachrichten'', '' Die Presse'', and ''Wiener Zeitung''. Although ''Der Standard'' is intended to be a national paper, in the past it had an undeniable tendency to focus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gruner + Jahr
Gruner + Jahr is a publishing house headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. The company was founded in 1965 by , , and Gerd Bucerius. From 1969 to 1973, Bertelsmann acquired a majority share in the company and gradually increased it over time. After 2014, the company was a fully owned subsidiary of the Gütersloh-based media and services group. Under the leadership and innovation strategy of Julia Jäkel, Gruner + Jahr evolved into a publishing house producing cross-channel media products for the digital society. With more than 500 magazines and digital products and services, Gruner + Jahr is one of Europe's largest premium magazine publishing companies. Its activities primarily focus on Germany and France. Among the most well-known media brands are Brigitte, Capital, Geo, and Stern, along with Chefkoch.de and Stern.de. In addition, Gruner + Jahr owns a share in Spiegel Verlag. In August 2021, RTL Deutschland announced the acquisition of Gruner + Jahr for €230 million euros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kafkaesque
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the short story "The Metamorphosis" and novels ''The Trial'' and '' The Castle''. The term '' Kafkaesque'' has entered English to describe absurd situations, like those depicted in his writing. Kafka was born into a middle-class German-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today the capital of the Czech Republic. He trained as a lawyer and after completing his legal education was employed full-time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrismon (magazine)
''Chrismon'' is a German Lutheran magazine appearing monthly as a supplement to the weekly journal ''Die Zeit'' and the daily newspapers ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'', '' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' (Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Nordrhein-Westfalen, and as an ePaper in FAZ Kiosk) ''Altmark Zeitung'', ''Die Welt'', ''Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten'', ''Hannoversche Allgemeine'', ''Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger/Kölnische Rundschau'', ''Kreiszeitung'' (Syke), ''Leipziger Volkszeitung'', ''Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung'', ''Neue Presse'', ''General-Anzeiger'', ''Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung'', ''Rheinische Post'' (Teilauflage), ''Welt am Sonntag'' (nur Norddeutschland), Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (gelegentlich, Teilauflage) und ''Westfälischer Anzeiger''. About 1.5 million copies are distributed monthly. It was founded in 2000 under the Name "Chrisma", (from 2002 "Chrismon") and arose from the '' Deutsches Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt''. It is owned by the Evangelical Church in Germany. Publisher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of social alienation, alienation, existential anxiety, guilt (emotion), guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the short story "The Metamorphosis" and novels ''The Trial'' and ''The Castle (novel), The Castle''. The term '':en:wikt:Kafkaesque, Kafkaesque'' has entered English to describe absurd situations, like those depicted in his writing. Kafka was born into a middle-class German-speaking History of the Jews in the Czech lands, Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today the capit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
