Biography

Biography Nicolas Mahler

  • Born in Vienna in 1969
  • 2003, founded the ‘Kabinett für Wort und Bild’ (‘Cabinet of Word and Image’) with Rudi Klein and Heinz Wolf in Vienna’s museum quarter
  • Work for Austrian, German and Swiss newspapers and magazines including the satiric magazine Titanic and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, as well as non-fiction illustration
  • Comics adapted as radio plays, puppet shows and cartoons; many works translated into other languages

Awards and Prizes:

  • 2006, Max and Moritz Prize for the best German-language comic (Das Unbehagen - ‘Uneasiness’)

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