Winner of the Max and Moritz Prize
Birgit Weyhe was born in Munich in 1969. After a childhood in
Uganda and Kenya she studied literature and history in Konstanz and
Hamburg. Going on to study illustration, she now works as an
illustrator and comic artist in Hamburg. Her graphic novels have
been nominated for awards in Germany, France and Japan.
Priscilla Layne was born in Evanston, IL in 1981 and grew up in
Chicago. She received her PhD in German from the University of
California at Berkeley, and is now Professor of German and Adjunct
Associate Professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Katy Derbyshire is a translator, writer and editor based in Berlin
for three decades. She translates contemporary German writers
including Judith Hermann, Clemens Meyer and Inka Parei, and
co-hosts a monthly translation lab. Her most recent publication is
Zsuzsanna Gahse’s Mountainish, published by Prototype and
shortlisted for the inaugural John Calder Translation Prize. Katy
is the publisher of the V&Q Books imprint.
‘Skilfully linking European-style drawing with African ornaments
and allegories, Birgit Weyhe illustrates the contrast and conflicts
between German and Mozambican perspectives. […] She also opens up a
new view of everyday life in the GDR, consisting of more than just
Trabis and grilled chicken.’ Der Tagesspiegel
*Der Tagesspiegel*
‘In Madgermanes, the historian, writer and illustrator Birgit Weyhe
has captured the hazy feeling of uprootedness, of not yet and no
longer belonging, in a partly associative visual language that
combines allegorical, ornamental motifs from Mozambique and the
GDR. Her depictions refrain from simplified clichés and enter into
a dialogue between European and African cultures, telling an
exciting, sad and sometimes even funny story and revealing emotions
difficult to put into words.’ Weser-Kurier
*Weser-Kurier*
‘Birgit Weyhe tells this dramatic story with verve, humour and
subtle feeling for the absurdities great and small of life in East
Germany. The book’s visual language adds to that vivid impression:
her black and white drawings enhanced with a warm tone of gold seem
naïve at first glance, and elevates reality by mixing allegorical
ornamental motifs from the two cultures. As graphic art,
Madgermanes is a reflection on the subject of belonging and a place
to call home.’ Schweizer Rundfunk
*Schweizer Rundfunk*
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