Nominations

The 25 nominated titles
in alphabetical order:

Coverillustration Aaron

AaronbyBen Gijsemans

Translation: Rolf Erdorf

Edition Moderne

As the summer days ripple by, Aaron often stands at the window. More and more often, he catches himself watching a boy playing soccer. Soon Aaron buys a ball himself and tries to persuade the boy to...

Cover Boris, Babette und lauter Skelette

Boris, Babette und lauter SkelettebyTanja Esch

Kibitz

In this entertaining book, Tanja Esch approaches the subject of the search for identity and "otherness" in an amusing and natural way. Boris receives his neighbour Lynette's pet "...

Cover Columbusstraße

ColumbusstraßebyTobi Dahmen

Carlsen

"Columbusstraße", subtitled "Eine Familiengeschichte, 1933-1945", is exactly 500 pages long. It was a bundle of letters that Tobi Dahmen found in 2015 after the death of his...

Cover Der große Reset

Der große ResetbyIka Sperling

Reprodukt

"First corona, then the war, now inflation. Everything has turned out as I said it would ..." A terrible situation, but often a reality: a family member drifts away. In her first graphic...

Cover Illustration Der Letzte löscht das Licht

Der Letzte löscht das LichtbyTobias Aeschbacher

Helvetiq

Three crooks break into an inconspicuous apartment building. They are looking for a bag - but find a cat, a cannabis plantation, all kinds of weapons, the ashes of a deceased man, other gangsters...

Cover Illustration Die große Leere

Die große LeerebyLéa Murawiec

Translation: Christoph Schuler

Edition Moderne

He who is forgotten dies. The law that governs the metropolis in which Manel Naher lives is that simple and relentless. Idealistic Manel refuses to play along and is content with the minimally vital...

Cover Illustration Drei oder vier Bagatellen

Drei oder vier BagatellenbyFranz Suess

avant-verlag

The posture of the teenager, who has to spend a few days with his senile, stingy and reviled grandfather reveals everything: the discomfort in his own body, anger and insecurity, which he covers up...

Cover Illustration Fungirl

FungirlbyElizabeth Pich

Translation: Christoph Schuler

Edition Moderne

You definitely don't want to have this Fungirl for a girlfriend! She brings a homeless guy from the park to a candlelit dinner with another couple to ruin the evening. And when her roommate is...

Cover Illustration Fürchten lernen

Fürchten lernenbyNando von Arb

Edition Moderne

In "Fürchten lernen", Nando von Arb deals with the fears, anxiety disorders and panic attacks that have shaped his life since childhood. Fear of the dark, fear of nightmares, fear of...

Cover Illustration Genossin Kuckuck

Genossin KuckuckbyAnke Feuchtenberger

Reprodukt

"Genossin Kuckuck" is full of images that leave an indelible impression. The giant slugs that crawl over the pages again and again, for example, are not only visible, they can be felt. Anke...

Cover Heroes

HeroesbyInio Asano

Translation: Jan-Christoph Müller

Tokyopop

"Heroes" is Inio Asano's most bizarre and most personal manga. The content is quickly outlined: A group of strange heroes sets out to defeat the darkness, banish chaos and bring back...

Cover Illustration Hör nur, schöne Márcia

Hör nur, schöne Márcia byMarcello Quintanilha

Translation: Lea Hübner

Reprodukt

"Hör nur, schöne Márcia" has everything you need for a captivating story: The intense conflict between a mother and a daughter. A favela in Rio de Janeiro as an explosive setting. A drug...

Cover Juliette

Juliette. Gespenster kehren im Frühling zurück byCamille Jourdy

Translation: Lilian Pithan

Reprodukt

Juliette in Camille Jourdy's graphic novel of the same name is going through a midlife crisis and suffers from panic attacks. So, she decides to take some time out and escapes to her divorced...

Cover Illustration Merel

MerelbyClara Lodewick

Translation: Christiane Bartelsen

Carlsen

The story begins in an unusual place: Merel is at a poultry show with a friend. She lives alone on the outskirts of a village, content with her animals, her job as a reporter, her love affair and her...

Cover Nika, Lotte, Mangold! Immer was los!

Nika, Lotte, Mangold! Immer was los!byThomas Wellmann

Rotopol

Gummy bears and frozen pizzas, shopping for clothes, adventures on the beach and snowball fights, traumatizing school lectures, pop music, scary films and the necessary digital detox every now and...

Cover Illustration Oblomowa

OblomowabyTina Brenneisen

Parallelallee

Oblomowa is a pain in the neck: she lies in bed all day, complaining about the misery of the world. The many visitors she receives are bursting with energy and activism. There's Irina, who fights...

Cover Paper Girls. Die komplette Geschichte

Paper Girls. Die komplette GeschichtebyBrian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson und Jared Fletcher

Translation: Sarah Weissbeck

Cross Cult

Time travel, intergalactic invasion and the end of the world. Friendship, hope and God in a Public Enemy t-shirt - this is the epic work by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson and Jared...

Cover Saturn Return

Saturn ReturnbyAkane Torikai

Translation: Antje Bockel

Carlsen

Author Ritsuko Kaji despairs over her writer's block, and while her young editor is supposed to present the successful author's new work, his job is on the line, and he resigns. Together they...

Cover Scheiblettenkind

ScheiblettenkindbyEva Müller

Suhrkamp

An unusual but important social topic, executed in very direct pencil drawings, is the subject of Eva Müller's work "Scheiblettenkind". It's the shame and self-doubt that results...

Cover Seek You

Seek You. Eine Reise in die Einsamkeit byKristen Radtke

Translation: Boris Kenov

Helvetiq

CQ! The radio signal with which amateur radio operators seek contact via Morse code. In the English-speaking world, CQ becomes 'Seek You.' The father of American author and illustrator...

Cover Seid befreit

Seid befreitbySandra Rummler

avant-verlag

The first sentence sounds like the prelude to Melville's Moby Dick: "I am Mo." But there is no one to be seen, just dark streets in the pale glow of a lonely lantern, deserted. "I...

Cover Snapdragon

SnapdragonbyKat Leyh

Translation: Matthias Wieland

Reprodukt

Black hat, black coat, eye patch - is how the old woman from the house on the edge of the forest wanders through the neighbourhood. She's a witch - obviously. A witch who looks after helpless...

Cover Tsai Kun-lin

Tsai Kun-linbyPei-yun Yu und Jian-xin Zhou

Translation: Johannes Fiederling

Baobab Books

In 1945, when Tsai Kun-lin was 15 years old, he was recruited by the Japanese army; at 19, he was sentenced to ten years in prison for political reasons. After his release, he became an important...

Cover United Queerdom

United QueerdombyKate Charlesworth

Translation: Hanna Reininger

Carlsen

"United Queerdom" is headstrong, colourful and personal - Kate Charlesworth draws a panorama of the pioneers of a self-determined queer life and also tells her own lesbian coming-out story...

Cover Weltraumpolizistin Oma Gurke

Weltraumpolizistin Oma GurkebyPatrick Wirbeleit and Stephan Lomp

Kibitz

Knitting is freedom! But it is outlawed on the intergalactic trading post Helga Centauri; only the underground movement still knows the intricate patterns with which they used to knit stories. It...