Best German-Speaking Comic-Artist

Reinhard Kleist

Best German-language Comic

Wie ich versuchte, ein guter Mensch zu sein / How I tried to be a good personbyUlli Lust

Suhrkamp Verlag

Ulli Lust, a budding artist in her mid-twenties in Vienna, is in love with two men: twenty-year-old Georg, with whom things have fizzled out in bed, and Nigerian refugee Kimata, with whom she embarks...

Best International Comic in German

Esthers TagebücherbyRiad Sattouf

Translation: Ulrich Pröfrock

Reprodukt

Esther, aged ten, is a perfectly normal girl. That said, she is also the protagonist of a highly unusual comic series: in Esthers Tagebücher, French-Syrian comic author Riad Sattouf – born in...

Best German-language Comic Strip

Das Leben ist kein PonyhofbySarah Burrini

www.sarahburrini.com / Panini Comics

For almost ten years, Sarah Burrini has been using her extremely entertaining comic strip "Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof" to combine the absurd with the everyday – often weighing in on...

Best Comic for Children and Teenagers

Die drei ??? – Das Dorf der TeufelbyIvar Leon Menger, John Beckmann and Christopher Tauber

Kosmos Verlag

The graphic novelisation of Die drei ??? reinvents one of the most popular crime series for children and young adults in the comic-strip format. Whereas the “old” stories featured a cover...

Best Student Comic Publication

ParadiesbyHBKsaar

Special Jury Award

Paul Derouet

Audience Award

NiGuNeGubyOliver Mielke and Hannes Radke

www.nigunegu.de / Pyramond Verlag

At first sight, this web comic seems to require some explanation – beginning with the title itself, which is formed from the names of its three main characters: Nice Guy, Nerd and Guru, cut up...

Lifetime Achievement Award

Jean-Claude Mézières

Dive into the cosmos created by Jean-Claude Mézières, and you will encounter images that seem very familiar – as if his drawings were inspired by cinema’s biggest science-fiction and...