Reading: “IMMER ALLES ANDERS” by Dominik Wendland

In his book “Immer alles anders”, Dominik Wendland tells of the challenges facing an individual in today's society. The changes that the main character undergoes in the story are never arbitrary, but always serve the purpose of fulfilling the expectations of their environment.

Anette Gehring from the Cartoonmuseum Basel, a juror at the Berthold Leibinger Foundation, writes about the project: 

“The main character in “Immer alles anders” is no one in particular - and therefore everyone. This is not to make it easier for readers to identify with them, but because they have lost their true essence: they stumbles through days and nights in front of an expressionistically exaggerated backdrop, changing form and colour in the process. In order to fulfil expectations and offer flexibility, they performsadaptations that alienate them ever further from themself. With consistent stylisation, hard outlines and monochrome colour surfaces, this fast, breathless comic makes you feel what the pressure to constantly reinvent yourself can do.”

Dominik Wendland has won the 11th Comic Book Prize of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation. The €25,000 prize supports comic creators in completing their work and is considered one of the most important awards in the German-language comics scene.

We cordially invite you to get to know this great work: Dominik Wendland will read from the current project and discuss it with comics author and journalist Nathalie Frank.