“Georgi’s later works, such as Die Schöne und das Tier (1976, The Beauty and the Animal), Das Feuer des Faust (1980/81, Faust’s Fire) and Zwerg Nase (1985, Dwarf Nose), became the highlights of romantic puppet animation, although she had to wait until the early 1970s to finally adapt romantic literature that was long considered reactionary in the official GDR literary historiography.” – Ralf Schenk, “The Colorful World of DEFA Animation”

“Between Die Schöne und das Tier and Zwerg Nase, Katja Georgi created Feuer des Faust (original scenario: Jiří Brdečka), a puppet animation film that, together with the work of other artists, attempted to initiate a sort of philosophical debate: animation films as a seismograph for world-political events and the situation in their own ‘Little Country.’ The Dresden animators consciously used their art to take a position that was not aligned with the politics of their day but rather committed to the standards of their profession. It was the first such position in the history of the studio, and each of these films deserves a mention because without them, many fairy-tale films of the 1980s would not have been possible.” – Joachim Giera, Die Trick-Fabrik