Spotlight Comic | Trends in the young comics scene in Germany

What’s on the young comics scene today? Discussion with Sascha Hommer and Johanna Maierski including comic reading with Sarah Böttcher

Fri, 01.11.2024, 18.00 – 19.30, Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek | PopUp Saal

Current students are the comic creators of tomorrow. What’s on the young comics scene today? What styles, content and formats do they realise in their work? To what extent are they supported by their universities? What external institutional opportunities are there to sharpen their own practice and make it visible? As a representative of the young scene in Berlin and Leipzig, Sarah Böttcher will present some of her works.

A stocktaking and discussion with

Sascha Hommer, comic artist and lecturer at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and Johanna Maierski, Colorama space Berlin and students from the Berlin art academies, and Sarah Böttcher, illustrator and comic artist from Berlin/Leipzig

Exclusive: Comic reading by Sarah Böttcher

Moderation: Axel Halling from the German Comic Association e.V.

Admission is free, registration is not necessary. In German language.

A co-operation between the Central State Library Berlin / AGB and the German Comic Association.