Andreas Platthaus

Andreas Platthaus studied rhetorics, philosophy, history, and economics before joining the staff of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 1997, where he works as literary editor. He has written several books and essays oncomic and animation aesthetics and history, including a Walt Disney biography, Von Mann und Maus: Die Welt des Walt Disney. He joined D.O.N.A.L.D. (Deutsche Organisation nichtkommerzieller Anhänger des lauteren Donaldismus), a German organization of non-commercial followers of “Donaldism,” in 1983, became its president in 1992, and was awarded with its honorary membership in 2007.