Kontaktanzeigen (German for “Personal Ads” or “Contact Advertisements”) is a small illustrated book by the German cartoonist and illustrator Peter Menne, published in 1999 by Kerber Verlag.
The book is a humorous and satirical collection of cartoons and illustrations inspired by contact advertisements—the short personal ads people place in newspapers to look for romantic partners.
Menne takes the typical style of these ads and exaggerates them through caricatures and visual jokes. The drawings portray different characters searching for love—often awkward, lonely, eccentric, or overly confident—highlighting the absurdities of dating and self-presentation.
Peter Menne is known for satirical drawings that depict everyday “small-town” or middle-class mentalities with humor and exaggeration.
The language of the book is German.
