John von Düffel, Isabel Kreitz: Hotel AngstDumont Verlag 2010, 112 p., 14,95 euros, ISBN 978-3-8321-9581-6
John von Düffel’s little story takes place in the Hotel Angst. The turn-of-the 20th-century luxury hotel is located on the Italian Riviera and is named after its owner, Adolfo Angst. It becomes the setting for a small boy’s hopes and dreams. Isabel Kreitz has captured the story’s eerily dreamlike atmosphere with her pencil drawings.
Isabel Kreitz, Peer Meter: HaarmannCarlsen Verlag 2010, 192 pages, 19,90 Euro, ISBN 978-3-551-79107-8
Fritz Haarmann, one of Europe’s most brutal serial killers, murdered 24 young men in only 16 months. He lured them into his little apartment in Hannover, raped and slaughtered them, threw their bones into the Leine River and sold their flesh as meat to unsuspecting citizens. Author Peer Meter wrote the script and the dialogues for this grim comic, and Isabel Kreitz supplied the artwork. Her realistic pencil drawings recreate the greyness of every day life in the ‘Twenties, and rapid shifts in perspective turn this comic into a thrilling mystery story. The appendix contains photographs and background information on Haarmann’s trial.
Book tips for Isabell Kreitz
Ralf 1 & Ralf 2: Schlechte Laune
Hamburg : Zwerchfell, 2000. 114 pages. ISBN 3928387294
This edition brings together the first two volumes of the Ralf series. It is the story of the Hamburg youth Ralf, who can’t get his fatal fascination with train-surfing out of his system. Gier, the fourth and most recent part of the Ralf series, was published in 2003.
Die Entdeckung der Currywurst
Hamburg : Carlsen Verl., 2000. 48 pages. ISBN 3-551-01731-X
In her run-down snack bar on the Neumarkt in Hamburg, Frau Brücker sold what she had once invented: the curry sausage. The snack bar is no longer there and Frau Brücker lives in an old people’s home, but her story is just waiting to be told...
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