Nicolas Mahler

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Nicolas Mahler
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Nicolas Mahler (2014)
Born1969 (age 5455)
Vienna, Austria
OccupationCartoonist
Notable workFlaschko, Kratochvil
Awards

Nicolas Mahler (born 1969) is an Austrian cartoonist and illustrator. Die Zeit , NZZ am Sonntag , Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and Titanic print his comics. [1] 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.

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Life and career

Mahler was born in Vienna. [2] He is an autodidact, and started working as an illustrator soon after leaving school. [3] Mahler draws for Austrian, German and Swiss newspapers, magazines and anthologies. [4] He has published over twenty books, including in France and Canada. [5] [6] [7] His Flaschko-comics were adapted as animated films and screened at various short film festivals in Europe. [8] [9] His comic Kratochvil [10] was performed as a puppet play in Switzerland, Austria and France. [11] [4] In 2003, together with Rudi Klein  [ de ] and Heinz Wolf  [ de ], he founded the Kabinett für Wort und Bild in Vienna Museumsquartier. [12]

Mahler produced several literary adaptations in comic form, including Alte Meister (after Thomas Bernhard's novel), [13] Alice in Sussex (based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) [13] and Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (after Robert Musil's novel) [12] as well as adaptations in 2020 of James Joyce's Ulysses [13] and Finnegans Wake . [13] In addition to his fictional stories, Mahler published Kunsttheorie versus Frau Goldgruber (Art Theory vs. Mrs. Goldgruber), Die Zumutungen der Moderne (The Impositions of Modernity), Pornographie und Selbstmord (Pornography and suicide), as well as Franz Kafkas Nonstop Lachmaschine (Franz Kafka's Nonstop Laughing Machine), as autobiographical comics in which he processes his sometimes absurd experiences in everyday life and in the comic scene. [14]

Mahler has been known to German readers through his publications in the satirical magazine Titanic . [1] From 2014 to 2016, he also published in the monthly magazine Chrismon. [15]

Mahler lives in Vienna. [2] He is married and has a son. [3]

Style

Mahler's style is characterised by an extremely reduced stroke [16] with which he captures cranky characters. [17] The award citation for the Max & Moritz Prize states:

Die Figuren von Nicolas Mahler haben keine Augen, keine Ohren, keine Münder – aber sie haben zweifellos Charakter. Stets gelingt es Mahler, mit minimalistischen Zeichnungen und maximalem Humor seine wenigen Striche auf den Punkt zu bringen. Dabei pendelt er virtuos zwischen banal, absurd und kafkaesk. [18]
(Nicolas Mahler's figures have no eyes, no ears, no mouths – but they undoubtedly have character. Mahler always succeeds in getting to the heart of his few strokes with minimalist drawings and maximal humour. In doing so, he virtuously oscillates between banal, absurd and kafkaesque.)

Awards

Publications

Cartoon collections

Comics

Flaschko

Illustrations

Literary adaptations

Poetry (with illustrations)

Scenarios

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