Meine Geschichten von Mutter und Tochter

In a wonderfully anarchic yet tender manner, Katharina Greve has mother and daughter tackle and overcome life’s minor and major challenges. Whether it’s accidents whilst roller-skating, reinterpreting Nazi symbols, or the visually entertaining side of doing the laundry, Greve finds humorous and wordless solutions for everything. In doing so, she adapts Erich Ohser’s (alias e. o. plauen) classic “Vater und Sohn” in her own individual and contemporary style. An unexpected twist, a device Ohser himself employed, leaves the reader smiling and marvelling. The feminist aspect is not absent from ‘Mother and Daughter’ either, and is demonstrated, for example, in the choice between a sword and a doll, which is decided with surprising self-determination in favour of the doll. The characters are depicted in a minimalist and clear style, with two colours supporting the duo in each illustration. The stories, first published on Katharina Greve’s website, have now been released in book form in their finest form.