Best German-Speaking Comic-Artist

Franz Suess

Die Menschen in seinen Comics treffen falsche Entscheidungen, nutzen Chancen nicht oder haben einfach nur Pech. Im Einzelnen hat das vermutlich jeder schon mal erlebt. Aber Franz Suess verdichtet die...

Best German-language Comic

Cover Illustration Der verkehrte Himmel

Der verkehrte HimmelbyMikael Ross

avant-verlag

It’s about a severed finger – about a Vietnamese woman who has fallen victim to human traffickers. And it’s about three teenagers from Berlin’s Lichtenberg district who get...

Best International Comic in German

Cover Illustration von In den trüben Gewässern Istanbuls

In den trüben Gewässern IstanbulsbyÖzge Samancı

Translation: Silv Bannenberg

Helvetiq

“In den trüben Gewässern Istanbuls” is never quite what it seems. Ece and Meltem are two students and amateur divers who, in 1995 Istanbul, share their poverty and a stuffy dormitory, and...

Best Non-Fiction Comic

Cover Illustration Die Frau als Mensch 2

Die Frau als MenschbyUlli Lust

Reprodukt

In the first volume of “Die Frau als Mensch”, Ulli Lust dispels the common gender stereotypes of early human history and depicts an egalitarian early society. This is in line with current...

Best Comic for Children

Cover Illustration Der Zahn

Der Zahn byAyşe Klinge

Kibitz

Ayşe Klinge’s unusual vampire story tackles several themes at once: the exclusion of those who are different, overcoming fear, the loss of one’s first teeth, and friendships that survive...

Best German-language Comic Debut

Cover Illustration Fleischeslust

FleischeslustbyMartin Oesch

Edition Moderne

Erwin is actually old enough to retire, but he cannot bring himself to give up his local butcher’s shop – not least because he cannot find a successor. Times are changing; people are...

Special Jury Award

Andreas C. Knigge

With the Special Jury Award, we are honouring a figure this evening who has shaped the history of German comics like no other – in the truest sense of the word. Back in the 1960s, when comics...

Lifetime Achievement Award

Photo of Posy Simmonds

Posy Simmonds

Posy Simmonds (born 1945) is the grande dame of the British comics scene – and yet she is anything but a typical comic book writer. She did not publish her first graphic novel, “Gemma...