Anke Feuchtenberger’s comic strip is about her childhood in East Germany in the 1970s. Other awards were given.
The Artémisia association awarded its 2025 Grand Prize to “Comrade Cuckoo, a German animal in the German forest” by Anke Feuchtenberger (Futuropolis). The Artémisia jury awards a Grand Prize every year to reward a woman author of comics, to salute her work, encourage her, make the work of women in comics more visible, fight against passive discrimination, against multiple ceilings of glass which continue to limit the breakthrough of authors, designers, screenwriters, creators, so that their art, their creativity, their genius, etc. 20 albums were selected for the 2025 Grand Prix.
A total of 448 pages, Anke Feuchtenberger worked on “The Cuckoo Comrade” for more than a decade. It is a story that is both fantastical and autobiographical and spans from 1945 to 1995, in the village of Pritschitanow, in East Germany, where the author comes from. Through different eras, Anke Feuchtenberger attempts to describe the exuberant and threatened fertility of organic life, a metaphor for the compromised life of villagers while Germany is experiencing profound political changes.
The 2024 Artemisia Grand Prix was awarded to “Madones and Whores” by Nine Antico (Dupuis).
For this 2025 edition, Artémisia also awarded four other prizes:
- Artémisia Prize Out of competition and Tribute: Chantal Montellier for “Social Fiction” (Les Humanoids Associés)
- Extraordinary Artemisia Prize: Nicole Claveloux for “Tonight it’s a nightmare” (Cornelius)
- Artemisia Influence Prize: Julia Korbik and Julia Bernhard for “Simone de Beauvoir: I want everything from life” (Steinkis)
- Artemisia Society Prize: “What I know about Rokia”, by Quitterie Simon and Francesca Vartuli (Futuropolis)
- Artemisia Pioneer Prize: Trina Robbins for “Garçonnes” (Bliss)
- Artemisia Resilience Prize: Leela Corman for “Victory Parade” (Editions ça et là)
- Artémisia Poetry Prize: “Human” by Joanna Folivéli (Deux Points)
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