The duo Stephan Katz and Max Goldt has cooperated since 1996. Katz, the artist, and Goldt, the writer, are representatives of the second "Neue Frankfurter Schule", and are regular contributors to the satirical magazine Titanic. Goldt was born in Göttingen, and moved to Berlin in 1977, where he studied Photography. He is also a musician, and has cooperated with Titanic since 1989.