Max und Moritz Award 2024
Max und Moritz Award 2024Erlangen, 12 April 2024
21st International Comic Salon Erlangen - 30 May to 2 June, 2024
Max und Moritz Award 2024: Jury nominates 25 titles
Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Joann Sfar
Special Jury Award conferred to Barbara Yelin
On the occasion of the 21st International Comic Salon Erlangen, which will take place from 30 May to 2 June, 2024, the Max und Moritz Award – the most important award for graphic literature and comic art in the German-speaking world – will be presented for the 21st time. The jury has nominated 25 titles, and seven of the nine award winners will be announced at the Max und Moritz Gala on 31 May, 2024. Two laureates have already been determined: Joann Sfar, one of France's most versatile artists and one of the most productive contemporary comic artists, will be honoured with the Max und Moritz Lifetime Achievement Award. The Special Jury Award goes to Barbara Yelin for her profound artistic engagement with people and their experiences of persecution, war, displacement and violence, as well as her sustained commitment to combating exclusion and hatred.
On the evening of 31 May, the winners in the categories Best German-language Comic, Best International Comic in German, Best Non-Fiction Comic, Best Comic for Children and Best German-language Comic Debut will be honoured at the Max und Moritz Gala, as will the best German-speaking Comic Artist and the Max und Moritz Audience Award. Proposals for the latter can be submitted online from 19 April, after which the most frequently nominated titles will be voted upon.
The Max und Moritz Award is presented by an independent jury of experts appointed by the City of Erlangen and has made a significant contribution to the artistic and social recognition of comics in Germany for 40 years. The award honours the work of outstanding artists, encourages commendable publishing projects, draws attention to emerging talent and promotes a qualitative engagement with graphic literature.
This year's jury for the Max und Moritz Award includes Christian Gasser (author, lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Design & Art), Andrea Heinze (journalist, Berlin), Andreas C. Knigge (journalist and publicist, Hamburg), Katinka Kornacker (Managing Director of COMIX – Comicbuchhandlung Hannover), Isabel Kreitz (comic artist, Hamburg), Christine Vogt (Director of Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen) and Bodo Birk (Director of the Erlangen International Comic Salon).
Max und Moritz Award 2024
The 25 nominated titles
in alphabetical order
- Aaron by Ben Gijsemans (Translation: Rolf Erdorf). Edition Moderne
- Boris, Babette und lauter Skelette by Tanja Esch. Kibitz
- Columbusstraße by Tobi Dahmen. Carlsen
- Der große Reset by Ika Sperling. Reprodukt
- Der Letzte löscht das Licht by Tobias Aeschbacher. Helvetiq
- Die große Leere by Léa Murawiec (Translation: Christoph Schuler). Edition Moderne
- Drei oder vier Bagatellen by Franz Suess. avant-verlag
- Fungirl by Elizabeth Pich (Translation: Christoph Schuler). Edition Moderne
- Fürchten lernen by Nando von Arb. Edition Moderne
- Genossin Kuckuck by Anke Feuchtenberger. Reprodukt
- Heroes by Inio Asano. (Translation: Jan-Christoph Müller). Tokyopop
- Hör nur, schöne Márcia by Marcello Quintanilha. (Translation: Lea Hübner). Reprodukt
- Juliette. Gespenster kehren im Frühling zurück by Camille Jourdy. (Translation: Lilian Pithan). Reprodukt
- Merel by Clara Lodewick. (Translation: Christiane Bartelsen). Carlsen
- Nika, Lotte, Mangold! Immer was los! by Thomas Wellmann. Rotopol
- Oblomowa by Tina Brenneisen. Parallelallee
- Paper Girls. Die komplette Geschichte by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson and Jared Fletcher. (Translation: Sarah Weissbeck). Cross Cult
- Saturn Return by Akane Torikai. (Translation: Antje Bockel). Carlsen
- Scheiblettenkind by Eva Müller. Suhrkamp
- Seek You. Eine Reise in die Einsamkeit by Kristen Radtke. (Translation: Boris Kenov). Helvetiq
- Seid befreit by Sandra Rummler. avant-verlag
- Snapdragon by Kat Leyh. (Translation: Matthias Wieland). Reprodukt
- Tsai Kun-lin by Pei-yun Yu, Jian-xin Zhou. (Translation: Johannes Fiederling). Baobab Books
- United Queerdom by Kate Charlesworth. (Translation: Hanna Reininger). Carlsen
- Weltraumpolizistin Oma Gurke by Patrick Wirbeleit and Stephan Lomp. Kibitz
Reading samples of the nominated titles are available under 'Nominations'. Videos of the individual nominations will be available from mid-May.
Max und Moritz Award 2024
Audience Award
Once again, the public is invited to present one Max und Moritz Award. From 19 April to 3 May, suggestions can be sent via the International Comic Salon's social media channels – Facebook and Instagram – or to the email address maxmoritz.publikum@stadt.erlangen.de. Comics, mangas, graphic novels and web comics that have been published in German since July 2022 can be nominated for the Audience Award, regardless of whether they are German-language productions or translations from other languages. Up to three different suggestions per person are possible. The titles with the most nominations will be considered for the Audience Award. The final vote will take place from 10 to 24 May on the festival website, and the announcement will be made on 31 May at the Max und Moritz Gala in Erlangen's Markgrafentheater.
Max und Moritz Gala
Presenter: Christian Gasser
Friday, 31 May, 2024, 8:30 pm
Markgrafentheater, Theaterplatz 2, 91054 Erlangen
Advance booking from 20 April, 2024
Traveling exhibition "The Best German Comics"
In 2024, the German-language Max und Moritz Award winners will go on a two-year tour for the sixth time, in a specially designed traveling exhibition entitled "The Best German Comics".
In 2024, DATEV eG is the title sponsor of the Erlangen International Comic Salon for the fifth time. An IT service provider for tax consultants, auditors and lawyers as well as their clients, including medium-sized companies and municipal administrations, the cooperative is one of the largest private employers in the Nuremberg metropolitan region and simultaneously one of the most important software houses in Europe.
In the downloadable PDF you will find the complete version with information on Lifetime Achievement Award winner Joann Sfar and the Special Jury Award winner Barbara Yelin as well as texts by the jury on all nominated titles.
Royalty-free images of the Lifetime Achievement Award winner, the Special Jury Award winner and the nominated titles in printable resolution can be found on the website under 'Pressebilder'. If you have any questions, need further information or pictures, we are at your disposal at any time.
Organiser
City of Erlangen – Cultural Office
Department Festivals and Programmes
Gebbertstraße 1, 91052 Erlangen – Germany
Tel. +49 (0)9131 86-1408, Fax: +49 (0)9131 86-1411
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