Gäste im BUSCH „Vier auf einen Strich“

The comic artists Joris Bas Backer and Oliver Grajewski discuss their comics in times of crisis with the journalist Markus Pfalzgraf and the art historian Jens Meinrenken.

Moderation: Katinka Kornacker (COMIX Hannover)

Joris Bas Backer and Oliver Grajewski will read and talk about their fictions of a real and future world. How can social resistance be articulated in comics, how can the position as a drawing individual be asserted? A discussion about the necessity of cultural production and the possibility of formulating ideas of a better society in comics.

The guests:

Joris Bas Backer

Joris Bas Backer is a comic artist and illustrator. His free works deal with the themes of longing, identity and gender roles. He is co-founder of the comic blog collective Chicks on Comics and the webcomic Familienjuwelen. His debut "Kisses for Jet" was published by Jaja Verlag in 2020. Joris Bas Backer has already been nominated for the Plastieken Plunk (BE) and GINCO Award (DE) for his short stories.

Oliver Grajewski

Oliver Grajewski lives in Berlin and works as a visual artist conceptually with the medium of comics for daily newspapers, magazines, web, film, galleries and museums. In addition to his conceptual work, he has made a name for himself with his numerous publications. Verbrecher Verlag has published five issues of the "Tigerboy" series with autobiographical stories. Together with Kathrin Röggla, he published "tokio, rückwärtstagebuch" with starfruit publications. Breitkopf Editions published the graphic novels "Der Tag im Moor" and "Abend im Abendland".

Jens Meinrenken

Jens Meinrenken works as a freelance art historian, editor and curator. He is a co-founder of the German Comic Association and has given numerous national and international lectures on topics such as comics, animation, caricature and computer games. Jens Meinrenken worked for the Berlin comic publisher Breitkopf Editionen for several years and collaborated with Oliver Grajewski on his book Abend im Abendland, which was published in 2015 in cooperation with Breitkopf Editionen and Verbrecherlag.

Markus Pfalzgraf

In addition to his political reporting on television and radio, journalist Markus Pfalzgraf also regularly reports on comics - in specialist magazines, journals and radio features. He moderates events, helps organize the ComicJuju Festival in Stuttgart and has translated a Dutch comic classic with the three-volume complete edition "Gilles der Gauner" by Hanco Kolk.

Katinka Kornacker

Katinka Kornacker studied media studies and is now managing director of the comic book store COMIX in Hanover. In addition to jury activities - including the Max and Moritz Prize since 2018 - she organizes comic readings, book signings and other comic events. She has been an advisor to the Wilhelm Busch - Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst since 2023.

An event of the Lower Saxony Foundation.