Overview
- Masztalerz received the Gold ‘Geflügelter Bleistift’ and €4,000 for “Abwarten,” with the jury praising its bitter, clear critique of complicity and how autocrats can rise through flawed elections.
- Sturm earned Silver and €3,000 for “Jetzt seid ihr dran!,” a wordless image of a child before a gallery of fallen soldiers that distills a generational reckoning with military legacies.
- Katharina Greve took Bronze (jury-cited for precise, ironic critique), newcomer Robert Claus won €1,000 for “Taxi Mama an die Front,” and total prize money reached €11,000.
- Mario Lars was named the public favorite after roughly 1,800 exhibition visitors cast votes for his work.
- Selected cartoons will tour Bremen (Nov 3–Jan 23), Dresden (Nov 8–Feb 22), and Agathenburg near Hamburg (Mar 1–May 3), following a competition that drew 1,208 submissions from 262 artists under the motto “Jetzt seid ihr dran!”