Complete with threesomes, realistic penises and orgasms, this is happy-go-lucky sex as you’ve hardly ever seen it drawn by a woman before. How I tried to be a good person is the autobiographical tale of a penniless artist in 1990s Vienna embarking on a quest for sexual awakening. Ulli Lust: How I tried to be a good person (Suhrkamp, €25)Įight years after the award-winning Today is the last day of the rest of your life, Exberliner’s Austrian-born, Berlin-based cartoonist for the past year Ulli Lust (check out our interview!) has released another raucously funny book that puts the “graphic” in graphic novel.
A testament to this city’s enduring dystopian beauty, by a man who’s withheld his gaze.įor the German-speaking BFF you share everything with:
The sleaze, ruins and junkyards so dear to this tough romantic might be slowly growing extinct, but Zownir hasn’t given up on “his” Berlin. But strangely enough, as shot through Zownir’s signature high-contrast B&W lens, they all show a city that’s retained the same raw, hedonistic beauty that made us fall in love with it. Junkies with needles in their veins, tattooed bodies hung from butcher’s hooks at Kit Kat, desolate ruins of the old Palast der Republik, inflatable dolls, nudity, police brutality… This is no material for the faint of heart! Many photos date back from the late 1970s and the 1990s others are more recent (the latest, of a street musician playing guitar in a bear mask in Mauerpark, is from 2015). Released in March this year, this beautiful 232-page coffee table book is a hardcore tome offering a unique photographic insight into “eternal Berlin” by the veteran photographer/ filmmaker/novelist who’s called the city home for 40 years.
Miron Zownir: Berlin Noir (PogoBooks, €58) In the analogue spirit, we’ve rounded up the best new local reads for every naughty-or-nice Berliner on your Christmas gift list.įor anyone who thinks they’re edgy because they’ve been to Berghain:
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