Max Goldt, born in Göttingen in 1958, lives in Berlin. Max Goldt has published ten comic books together with Katz. 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 Göttingen Elch. His new book “Aber” will be published on August 14, 2024, 160 pages, dtv.