Neue Texte / Just Cold Enough
This work brings together a selection of short stories written by the author. The stories are subjective and focus on the inner states of their protagonists.
All of the characters carry something with them and act out conflicts with their environment: a lawyer projects his uncontrolled emotions onto an imaginary character. The daughter of an alcoholic negotiates her conflict with authority with a supermarket instead of with her father. A girl eats only salami sticks, pickled gherkins, and hard-boiled eggs because she can hardly bear her physicality.
Emotions are not openly named or acted out. They lie just below the surface, palpable in everything the characters do to avoid them.
Prediploma / ICH
In this paper, I explore the question of how social relationships are changing in an increasingly individualized society.
Today, more than ever, individuals are called upon to shape themselves and form their own identities. At the same time, social structures are becoming more unstable. Life plans are open, flexible, and changeable.
Identity thus becomes less of a stable core and more of an ongoing process. With growing dynamism, community and social bonds also come under pressure.
The work approaches this area of tension with illustrations that make conditions visible and open up a space in which one’s own experiences can be found.
The Culture
As part of the Typography 2 course, two exhibition posters were created for the exhibition The Culture at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, which dealt with the hip-hop movement. Hip-hop was understood not only as a cultural movement, but also as a political, social, and commercialized phenomenon.
The aim was to use two posters to provide typographical information about the exhibition and to develop a critical position on the topic.