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7:30 PM-9:00 PM
Drawn Life – A Conversation with Ulli Lust
Reading with guided discussion|Graphic Novel Reading
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Library of the Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Tokyo
- Language Japanese, German
- Price Free of charge, registration required
Together, we will explore her experiences and artistic journey.
The focus will be on two of her works: Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest deines Lebens, an autobiographical graphic novel recently translated into Japanese, and her latest work Die Frau als Mensch, which examines traditional gender roles from the Stone Age and their relevance today.
Enjoy readings from both works followed by a moderated conversation with the author.
Venue: Library of the Goethe-Institut Tokyo
Date & Time: Friday, October 31, 2025, at 7:30 PM
Admission is free, but we kindly ask you to register in advance.
We look forward to seeing you!
In cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum Tokyo
Author
Ulli Lust
Ulli Lust, born in 1967, emigrated from Vienna to Berlin in 1995. Since then, she has been creating comic reportages with sharp observations of modern everyday life, such as her depiction of a Berlin shopping mall inFashionvictims, Trendverächter – Comicreportagen aus Berlin(avant-verlag, 2008). In autumn 2009, she published an extensive comic about her youth, blending travelogue and picaresque novel with an existential teenage drama: Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest deines Lebens (avant-verlag). The book was translated into several languages and received numerous awards, including the Prix de Révélation at the Angoulême Comics Festival, the Ignatz Award, and the LA Times Book Award in the USA.
In 2013, Flughunde was published by Suhrkamp, a comic adaptation of Marcel Beyer’s novel of the same name. Her autobiographical graphic novel about an unusual three-way relationship, Wie ich versuchte, ein guter Mensch zu sein (Suhrkamp, 2017), was shortlisted for the Fauve d’or in Angoulême in 2018 and won an Inkpot Award at Comic-Con in San Diego. Part 1 of Die Frau als Mensch was released in spring 2025 and won the German Non-Fiction Book Prize 2025 — the first time a comic was nominated in this category.
Since September 2013, she has been a professor of Drawing & Comics at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hanover.
Moderator
Erina Wataya
Radio DJ / essayist. Erina Wataya was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, and graduated from Freie Universität Berlin.
She is proficient in eight languages and has been based in Japan since 2014, where she actively promotes intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding.
In 2018, she made her debut as a radio DJ on TOKYOFM. From 2019 to 2023, she voiced and partnered with the character “Mōrī” in the NHK E-TV programs “Tabi suru doitsugo” and “Tabi suru tame no doitsugo”. Since 2023, she has been the navigator of the NHK Radio 2 program “Mainichi doitsugo”.
During the medal ceremonies of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, she served as the French-language announcer.
Her publications include the book “Oshaberi na doitsugo” (Sayusha Publishing). She is also active as a narrator, for example in the audiobook “Ratengo no Jugyō” (Diamond Publishing).
Location
Akasaka 7-5-56
Minato-ku
Tokyo
107-0052 Japan
