Augen auf! Ali Mitgutsch und das große Gewimmel

Ali Mitgutsch is considered the father of the Wimmelbuch. "Rundherum in meiner Stadt" from 1968 is his first Wimmelbuch and a classic of children's literature. With colorful pictures, Ali Mitgutsch tells stories full of gestures, playfully and with a lot of wit, about everyday life in the city and in the countryside, in the mountains and by the water. Without words, he brings stories to paper that children and adults enjoy. A bit of schadenfreude is often part of it when he captures small mishaps in the picture: there is the girl who is lifted into the air by balloons, the man who sticks his backside out too far, the woman whose hat is blown off her head, or the boy who gets splashed with water. In his pictures, Mitgutsch spreads out a miniature world in which people laugh, shout, marvel and cry. Everything is in motion in his work; hardly anyone stands still.