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Award Winner
Packeis
by Simon Schwartz
avant-verlag
Laudatio:
This year, the best comic by a German-speaking comics artist comes from the cold. From the terrors of ice and darkness, to quote Christoph Ransmayr. In his second book, “Packeis”, Simon Schwartz leads us to the North Pole – just as Commander Peary leads the protagonist of the story there, the young black ship’s boy Matthew Henson. There is good reason to believe that Henson was the first person at the Pole, but no one was allowed to know that in 1909, since Peary was white and there was no way that a black person could be allowed to have beaten him in the perpetual whiteness. Henson was definitely one of Peary’s most important aides and even that seemed defamatory at the time. To this day, more than 100 years after the then groundbreaking event, the concealment of Henson’s achievement continues.
Therefore “Packeis” is a doubly deserving winner: in terms of quality in any case, because the ingenuity with which Simon Schwartz combines American reality and the mythology of the Inuit narratively as well as aesthetically is admirable. But also because he has chosen a topic that is, sadly, still of undiminished interest: selfishness and arrogance. Simon Schwartz brings all of this together in an adventure story in the classical sense that you don’t want to put down. At the end, you sit there, educated, and don’t know what happened to you. Now, Simon Schwartz stands here, bestowed. But he knows why.
Lifetime Achievement Award
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Best German comic book
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Packeis
by Simon Schwartz
avant-verlag
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Best international comic book
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Gaza
by Joe Sacco
Translation: Christoph Schuler
Edition Moderne
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Best comic strip
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Schöne Töchter
by Flix
Der Tagesspiegel
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Best comic book for children
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Das tapfere Prinzlein und die sieben Zwergbären
by Émile Bravo
Translation: Ulrich Pröfrock
Carlsen Verlag
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Best student comic publication
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Ampel Magazin
by Anja Wicki, Luca Bartulovic and Andreas Kiener
Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst
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Special jury prize
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Rossi Schreiber
for her pioneering work and a great adventure as a comics publisher
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Audience Award
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Grablicht
by Daniela Winkler
Droemer Knaur
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The 25 titles nominated for the “Max und Moritz“-Award 2012
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Alois Nebel
by Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír 99
Translation: Eva Profousová
Verlag Voland & Quist
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Alte Meister
by Nicolas Mahler
adapted from Thomas Bernhard
Suhrkamp Verlag
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Annas Paradies
by Daniel Schreiber
Splitter Verlag
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Asterios Polyp
by David Mazzucchelli
Translation: Thomas Pletzinger
Eichborn Verlag
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Aufzeichnungen aus Jerusalem
by Guy Delisle
Translation: Martin Budde
Reprodukt
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Baby Blues
by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
Translation: Michael Bregel
Bulls Press / Achterbahn im Lappan Verlag
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Castro
by Reinhard Kleist
Carlsen Verlag
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Das tapfere Prinzlein und die sieben Zwergbären
by Émile Bravo
Translation: Ulrich Pröfrock
Carlsen Verlag
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Dédé – Eriks Detektiv Deschamps
by Erik
Epsilon Verlag
> nominated by the audience
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Der Mann, der seinen Bart wachsen ließ
by Olivier Schrauwen
Translation: Helge Lethi
Reprodukt
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Der Staub der Ahnen
by Felix Pestemer
avant-verlag
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Die Ballade von Seemann und Albatros
by Nick Hayes
Translation: Henning Ahrens
mareverlag
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Essex County
by Jeff Lemire
Translation: Thomas Schützinger
Edition 52
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Fennek
by Lewis Trondheim and Yoann
Translation: Kai Wilksen
Reprodukt
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Fünftausend Kilometer in der Sekunde
by Manuele Fior
Translation: Maya della Pietra
avant-verlag
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Gaza
by Joe Sacco
Translation: Christoph Schuler
Edition Moderne
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Grablicht
by Daniela Winkler
Droemer Knaur
> nominated by the audience
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Haarmann
by Peer Meter and Isabel Kreitz
Carlsen Verlag
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Lou!
by Julien Neel
Translation: Thomas Schöner
Tokyopop
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Packeis
by Simon Schwartz
avant-verlag
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Pluto
by Naoki Urasawa, adapted from Osamu Tezuka
Co-author: Takashi Nagasaki, translation: Jürgen Seebeck
Carlsen Verlag
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Riekes Notizen
by Barbara Yelin
Frankfurter Rundschau
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Schöne Töchter
by Flix
Der Tagesspiegel
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Summer Wars
by Mamoru Hosoda, Iqura Sugimoto and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Translation: Nadine Stutterheim
Carlsen Verlag
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The Walking Dead
by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn
Translation: Marc-Oliver Frisch
Cross Cult
> nominated by the audience
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