Best German-Speaking Comic-Artist

Anna Haifisch

Laudation by Andrea Heinze: Anna Haifisch had her international break-through with her comic strip “The Artist”, which she developed in 2015 and 2016 for the American “Vice”...

Best German-language Comic

Der UmfallbyMikaël Ross

avant-verlag

Fate strikes, of all times, on his birthday. Noel can't even tell you which birthday. But luckily he can ask “Mumsi”. His mother knows everything and has everything under control. And...

Best International Comic in German

Am liebsten mag ich MonsterbyEmil Ferris

Translation: Torsten Hempelt

Panini Comics

In the basement apartment of a building in Chicago in the 1960s, Karen lives with her cancer-stricken mother and her big brother – and a family secret. Her world is full of broken bodies and...

Best German-language Comic Strip

Busengewunder. Meine feministischen KolumnenbyLisa Frühbeis

First published as "My 100 Days of Strangelife" in Berliner Tagesspiegel.

Carlsen

"Why don't you do something about menstruation!" came the suggestion of an editor of the Berliner Tagesspiegel, for which Lisa Frühbeis drew a monthly column titled, "My 100 Days...

Best Comic for Children

Manno! Alles genau so in echt passiertbyAnke Kuhl

Klett Kinderbuch

“Manno! Alles genau so in echt passiert” is Anke Kuhl's charming account of her childhood. The true to life retelling becomes evident when “Frau Kuhl” is called into the...

Best German-language Comic Debut

Wie gut, dass wir darüber geredet haben

Wie gut, dass wir darüber geredet habenbyJulia Bernhard

avant-verlag

The title is blatantly ironic, because although there is plenty of talking going on here, much of it even quite personal, no one seems to really be listening. In various scenes, Julia Bernhard's...

Audience Award

Schweres Geknitterby@kriegundfreitag

> nominated by the audience

Lappan

Tobias Vogel needs only a few lines and a few words to make his point. Under his pen name @kriegundfreitag he has been publishing short comic sequences and cartoons in which he deals with...

Special Jury Award

David Basler

Laudation by Christian Gasser: It's fitting that David Basler retreated from Edition Moderne without waiting for its 40th anniversary. Instead of retiring in glory on the big stage in 2021, he...

Lifetime Achievement Award

Anke Feuchtenberger

Laudation by Brigitte Helbling: Berlin 1990, shortly after the fall of the wall. We imagine Anke Feuchtenberger as she wanders through her city, henceforth open to the West, carrying her son Leo, a...