On September 14, Viennese comic author Vinz Schwarzbauer will present his debut graphic novel MÄANDER in a moderated artist talk including a comic reading at Forum Stadtpark.

Vinz Schwarzbauer reconstructs the biography of his family between Hungary, Austria, Canada and an indigenous Anishinabek community. While his grandmother found a new home in Austria after the 1956 Hungarian uprising, his great-aunt emigrated to Canada. Vinz Schwarzbauer asks his family members about their memories of giving up their old homeland and searching for a new one. In multi-layered to contradictory descriptions, the family discusses feelings of belonging and foreignness and what it means to grow up as a minority in a foreign country.

"What does it mean to grow up as a minority in a foreign country? How do flight and expulsion affect people's lives - and indeed the lives of the children's and grandchildren's generation? The Austrian comic artist Vinz Schwarzbauer has now drawn a graphic novel on the story of his family's flight, which stands out both graphically and in terms of content - the rbbKultur Comic of the Month!"
-Andrea Heinze, rbbKultur

"Imaginations, traditions and really experienced things come together and submit to the flow of time. The beautifully presented book invites you to a journey into the past, to a reconstruction and examination of important, social questions."
-Michael Bohli, Phosphor