Overview
- The jury awarded the €4,000 Gold ‘Geflügelter Bleistift’ to Hamburg cartoonist Piero Masztalerz for “Abwarten,” praising its clear, biting take on how autocrats exploit ostensibly free elections.
- Leipzig’s Philipp Sturm received the €3,000 Silver prize for “Jetzt seid ihr dran!,” a wordless image of a child facing a mirror in an ancestral gallery that distills generational change and wartime memory.
- Berlin-based Katharina Greve earned Bronze (€2,000), returning to the podium with a work noted for precise linework and pointed humor about male complacency and female self-assurance.
- The €1,000 Newcomer award went to Robert Claus for “Taxi Mama an die Front,” cited for its necessary political punch, strong payoff and distinctive style.
- The prize’s organizers confirmed a public exhibition program: Dresden’s Haus der Presse hosts 8 November 2025 to 22 February 2026 before further stops in Bremen and Agathenburg, with visitor voting for a public favorite.