Gäste im BUSCH „Vier auf einen Strich“

Joris Bas Backer, Katia Fouquet, E.S. Glenn and Oliver Grajewski, the four artists behind the "Vier auf einen Strich" exhibitions, will read from their works.

This will be followed by a comic talk with the well-known comic artists Ulli Lust and Kai Pfeiffer: "The breath of archives: comics dream of documents."

What is history, and how are stories created, what do the remains of forgotten cults and everyday life tell us? Ulli Lust and Kai Pfeiffer report on their "Laboratory for Documentary Comics", for which they gathered some of Berlin's most exciting comic artists for a year-long adventure in archives in August 2020. The result was the extensive volume "Gerne würdest Du allen so viel sagen - unterbrochene Gespräche des 20. Jahrhunderts".

Here they give an insight behind the scenes of their own new works, which provide a stage for the past: Ulli Lust uses her pencil to travel back to the eternally mysterious times of our early history, while Kai Pfeiffer reflects on documentary comic drawing itself in his "Erinnerungsarbeit" (Memory Work) based on recent experiences and connects it with the work of the SchreibZeit fellows.

About the artists:

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.

Katia Fouquet

Katia Fouquet is a comic author and freelance illustrator. In her artistic work, she deals with stereotypical images and roles and questions social conditions. In her current graphic novel "The Etcher", she researches the hidden Nazi biography of her grandfather and the traumatic effects on her mother and grandmother, which begin with his return from captivity.

E.S. Glenn

E. S. Glenn is an American comic artist. After leaving school, he lived in New York for many years and sold his comics in the underground and indie scene. He has been working as a cartoonist for "The New Yorker" since 2020. In the same year, his debut Unsmooth #1 was published by Floating World Comics. Unsmooth #2: BUM followed in 2021. In addition to his artistic work, E. S. Glenn teaches comics and illustration at Princeton University and Hanover College, among others. In 2022 he received the Berlin Senate's working grant for comics.

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".

Ulli Lust

Ulli Lust, born in Vienna, moved to Berlin in 1995 to study illustration. She draws documentary comics and founded the online publishing house electrocomics.com in 2005. Her graphic novel "Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest Deines Lebens" (2009) has been translated into 11 languages and won numerous awards. She has been Professor of Drawing & Comics at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2013.

Kai Pfeiffer

Kai Pfeiffer studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. As a comic artist, he works between fiction, abstraction and documentation, in the form of books, installations and performative readings. He is also a publisher, exhibition curator, editor, translator and founding member of the German Comic Association. His publications include "Glücklich wie Blei im Getreide" with Clemens Setz and "Der Flaneur" with Tim Dinter. Kai Pfeiffer teaches storytelling at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

An event organized by the Lower Saxony Foundation.