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I am happy when acquaintances read out “An Olympic Dream” in a school or use it in a classroom, my favourite Kleist: at the age of 17, the sprinter Samia Yusuf Omar participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Yet completely different sequences, chords. Having accepted Kleist’s fundamentals (men in male milieus, shadows, blinds/grilles, an often menacing black) and reading his longer graphic novels, I encounter diversity, refraction, ranges: "Berlinoir" and "Dorian" are splendidly colourful Kleist’s graphic biography of Johnny Cash does not make his biography of Nick Cave redundant the graphic novel about the Jewish boxer Hertzko Haft in Auschwitz stands alongside "Knock-Out" (2019) about the boxer Emile Griffith, African-American, gay, World Champion in 1961. Is this Sri Lanka, 2017? Should I be disappointed because 14 drawings do not capture Sri Lanka in its entirety, all its myriad colours, its rich details? He shows temples, shrines, a bar or bakery, street scenes, bicycles, a naked light bulb illuminating a Buddha. His art lies in omitting often also in expanding, curving, wearing away, keeping it rough. Reinhard Kleist’s strokes carry authority. However, the first book on the subject of urban sketching that is suggested to me is: "Die Kunst des Weglassens" (The Art of Omitting). ‘Urban Sketching’ is now so common and popular – when looking at Kleist’s work, I notice how often in my online routine I give ‘likes’ to people with a notebook or iPad, who work hard, put in a great deal of effort and often use colour to reproduce a picturesque cityscape, often extra picturesque and realistic. Kleist’s 14 (often double-page) Sri Lanka drawings come particularly close to the aesthetic of several Kleist comic books: pronounced shadows, male bodies and faces, twilight. Algeria is painted in watercolour, playful colouration. In Egypt, Kleist sketches statues with surfaces in stunning contrast. Vietnam? More intricate, delightfully detailed.
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The Sicily drawings are ever so colourful, full of effects, charged. “Travel drawings” on Kleist’s website has 10 to 20 motifs from each of over 12 countries, often the result of other ‘live drawing’ performances.
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He worked in real time during the concert – drawing 'live’. In 2017, Kleist illustrated the songs of the singer and songwriter Ajith Kumarasiri at the Goethe-Institut Colombo.
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Kleist’s comics are extra menacing, existential. “Herrenschokolade” (Gentlemen’s Chocolate) is extra bitter. Reinhard Kleist loves noir, deep shadows, sad, broken gentlemen in black and white, images in muted tones, male biographies about lonely men, few words in male worlds, chokes on standards of manliness. Werner Herzog creaks interviews, sarcastically, often dry as a bone. His mother asked him to stop, but he wouldn't. In ‘Family Guy’, the Simpsons-like sitcom - full of bizarre comparisons, Peter complains about his wife: “You get me down more than a German bedtime story.” We see Little Suck-a-Thumb from ‘Struwwelpeter’: “There once was a boy who liked to suck his thumbs. The worst thing I can say about Reinhard Kleist – the most successful comic book author in the reviews and feuilletons of the German-speaking world? He often illustrates and narrates in a way that I believe matches the international image of an immensely popular German comic book artist: