Nominations

The 25 titles nominated by the jury and three titles nominated by the audience
in alphabetical order:

Cover Bei mir zuhause

Bei mir zuhausebyPaulina Stulin

Jaja Verlag

Inside a monumental 613 pages, the Darmstadt illustrator Paulina Stulin gives us an insight into her everyday life. In the form of a diary, she takes us into her attic flat, to parties, on trips and...

Chartwell ManorbyGlenn Head

Translation: Ronald Gutberlet

Carlsen

In "Chartwell Manor", the American Glenn Head describes his years at boarding school in unsparing realism and in the harshness of the underground. There he - like all the other boys - is...

Cover des Buches Contrapaso

Contrapaso. Die Kinder der AnderenbyTeresa Valero

Translation: Harald Sachse

Splitter Verlag

Madrid 1956, Franco has been in power for 20 years. Emilio Sanz has been working for the daily newspaper "La Capital" for almost as long. But he has long since lost his illusions in the...

Cover des Buches Das Gutachten

Das GutachtenbyJennifer Daniel

Carlsen

The Bonn Republic 1977 in pictures: cigarettes, alcohol, VW Beetles, Mercedes S-Class, horn-rimmed glasses and large-patterned wallpaper. Between Beethoven and concrete, yesterday and today. The...

Cover von Der nutzlose Mann

Der nutzlose MannbyYoshiharu Tsuge

Translation: Nora Bierich

Reprodukt

Sukezo Sukegawa is a celebrated mangaka, and yet he suddenly stops drawing. As a seller of stones, which he collects on the riverbank, he is so unsuccessful that he plunges his family into misery. A...

Cover des Buches Die geheimnisvollen Akten von Margo Maloo

Die geheimnisvollen Akten von Margo MaloobyDrew Weing

Translation: Matthias Wieland

Reprodukt

When they arrive in Echo City, Charles Thompson feels vindicated. "Nasty," he grumbles moodily. His parents want to renovate a half-ruined hotel here, built in 1925, true Art Deco. But...

Cover von Dragman

DragmanbySteven Appleby

Translation: Ruth Keen

Schaltzeit Verlag

August Crimp alias Dragman is a very unusual kind of superhero. On the surface he is a bland husband and father, but he has a secret identity. He loves women's clothes, and women's clothes...

Dreimal SpuckenbyDavide Reviati

Translation: Myriam Alfano

avant-verlag

It's the 60s in the countryside. Endless boredom dominates the lives of the village youth and repeatedly drives them to stupidity and drug use. "Three times spitting" is the story by...

Cover Erdoğan

ErdoğanbyCan Dündar und Anwar

Translation: Sabine Adatepe

Correctiv / ÖZGÜRÜZ Press

Not so long ago, Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan was seen by the West as a beacon of hope, and Turkey's accession to the EU was almost a done deal. But then came the turning point. But was it a turning...

erzaehlmirnix. Leben mit MenschenbyNadja Hermann

> nominated by the audience

riva Verlag / erzaehlmirnix.wordpress.com

FürchtetalbyChristine and Markus Färber

Rotopol

There can hardly be a more difficult experience than the suicide of a parent - especially when this suicide comes as surprisingly as in the case of Christine and Markus Färber's father. Christine...

Cover im Im Spiegelsaal

Im SpiegelsaalbyLiv Strömquist

Translation: Katharina Erben

avant-verlag

Why do so many people spend so much time looking at Kylie Jenner? Why is Kylie Jenner considered so desirable and worthy of imitation, and what is the connection between her looks and her wealth?...

KplxbyKplx

> nominated by the audience

Cover Lisa und Lio

Lisa und LiobyDaniela Schreiter

> nominated by the audience

Panini Comics

Cover von Melek + ich

Melek + ichbyLina Ehrentraut

Edition Moderne

Rarely has a debut been presented that is so lively and, for all its unfinishedness, as strong as "Melek + I" by Lina Ehrentraut. Scientist Nici has built a machine that can be used to...

NachtgestaltenbyJaroslav Rudiš and Nicolas Mahler

Luchterhand

Oh, the misery of closed pubs when you urgently need one, two, three more beers to continue an important conversation! Because there are nights that should be endless - and such an endless round of...

ParallelbyMatthias Lehmann

Reprodukt

Not often does a graphic novel succeed in providing such an intense and profound view into the inner life of its protagonists as does Matthias Lehmann's "Parallel". Lehmann lets us...

Cover Penelopes zwei Leben

Penelopes zwei LebenbyJudith Vanistendael

Translation: Andrea Kluitmann

Reprodukt

The story begins with a quotation from Homer and a confession that the protagonist has not seen her daughter for four years. In a parallel narrative, the upper part of the picture shows the safe life...

RegenbogentagebyNora Dåsnes

Translation: Katharina Erben

Klett Kinderbuch

Tuva is twelve years old, lives with her dad and writes a diary. She is looking forward to the first day of school because she will see her best friends Linnéa and Bao again. So far, so good. But...

Cover Rude Girl

Rude GirlbyBirgit Weyhe

avant-verlag

In "Rude Girl" Birgit Weyhe tells the story of the empowerment of Crystal, a black US-American woman from a simple background. The model for this character is Priscilla Layne, a German...

SapiensbyYuval Noah Harari, Daniel Casanave and David Vandermeulen

Translation: Andreas Wirthensohn

Verlag C. H. Beck

In his international bestseller "Sapiens. A Brief History of Mankind", the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari explored why Homo Sapiens, of all people, rose to dominate our planet. The...

Cover Sunny

SunnybyTaiyō Matsumoto

Translation: Martin Gericke

Carlsen

In the autobiographically based manga "Sunny", Taiyō Matsumoto describes everyday life in the children's home "Star Kids". The barely controllable Haruo, the cheeky Miiko, the...

Cover Trip mit Tropf

Trip mit TropfbyJosephine Mark

Kibitz Verlag

Chance and a bit of luck help the wolf code to bring the wolf and the rabbit together. Thus begins this crazy road trip of these two, who could not be more different from eachother. Despite fleeing...

Cover Tunnel

TunnelbyRutu Modan

Translation: Markus Lemke

Carlsen

A motley crew of amateur Israeli archaeologists dig their way under the border fence into the West Bank, suspecting that nothing less than the Ark of the Covenant is there. Halfway through, however,...

Cover Unschlagbar! 3

Unschlagbar!byPascal Jousselin

Translation: Marcel Le Comte

Carlsen

At first glance, "Unbeatable!" may look like a typical funny story about a clumsy superhero. But in fact, Unbeatable is the smartest of all comic book heroes: His superpower comes from his...

Cover Who's the Scatman?

Who's the Scatman?byJeff Chi

Zwerchfell

Who is John Larkin? A stuttering jazz pianist with a drinking problem who hides behind the piano to avoid having to speak. He keeps his head above water with gigs in bars and clubs, the fee is often...

Cover Work-Life-Balance

Work-Life-BalancebyAisha Franz

Reprodukt

Welcome to the unattractive new work world of shoe-free offices, in which people toil creatively but earn poorly, of ghastly-chic art galleries, pizza couriers and trendy therapies (also offered...

Cover Zarter Schmelz

Zarter Schmelz. Lucky Luke HommagebyRalf König

Egmont

The Lonesome Cowboy is now 75 years old, holy shit! Probably because he switched from finger-snapping home-rolled to hand-pulled weed, he still sits in the saddle as elegantly as ever. All the more...