A language that everyone understands: cartoons about the topic of climate

Wednesday marks the start of the new Cactus Cartoon Award exhibition in the Working World Museum. It’s about cartoons about climate change and climate justice. On Wednesday evening, Gerhard Haderer, initiator of the award and the founder of the “School of Disobedience”, will be a guest in Steyr to talk about the power of caricature. In addition to Austria’s most famous cartoonist, H. P. Falkner (Attwenger) will also provide musical accompaniment to the opening. Admission is free and starts at 7 p.m.

The international caricature prize “Cactus” was announced for the first time this year. Professionals of the sharp pen were invited to submit their best work on climate change and climate justice. The exhibition shows a selection of the best cartoons from more than 1,700 submissions by more than 500 cartoonists from more than 80 countries. Whether from China, the USA, India, Russia or Ukraine – the climate affects the whole world and especially artists.

Caricatures function across national borders, cultural borders and language barriers as a means of communication for topics that are relevant worldwide. With the caricature there is a common, global language through which emotional communication can be communicated. Caricatures are easy to understand, get to the heart of complex issues and can also be entertaining through humorous and exaggerated depictions.

“We are very pleased to be able to offer our visitors an opportunity to engage with these great works,” says the MAW’s artistic director, Stephan Rosinger. The 40 cartoons that were best rated by a jury are exhibited as art prints, and are supplemented by a selection of 167 other cartoons worth seeing, which will be presented in digital form. The exhibition can be seen until December 31st.

After Haderer comes Hackl

In the World of Work Museum, things are happening in quick succession at the moment, as the pointed drawing pen is being replaced by the noble pen: author Erich Hackl is presenting his current translation on Thursday, October 5th, at 7:30 p.m.: Mandl’s false memoirs – A villain’s story: Fritz Mandl, boss of the Hirtenberger Ammunition factory, was a colorful figure in public life, and not just because of his marriage to film star Hedy Lamarr.

From 1937, Mandl lived in exile in Argentina – and that is where the search for clues by the Argentine writer Eduardo Pogoriles begins for his novel “Las ficciones de Fritz Mandl” (2023), which has now been published in German by Marsyas, translated by Erich Hackl. Admission in advance: 12 euros.

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