If two potatoes walk past a carrot on the street. But wait – is that even correct? No, as the big potato teaches the small one: “You don’t say carrots! That means carrots.”
“Das M-Wort” is the name of this caricature and it comes from the pen of Olaf Schwarzbach. The Berlin cartoonist was awarded the “Winged Pencil in Gold” at the German Caricature Prize 2021 in the Dresden State Theater.
The jury stated that the drawing shows how the struggle for correct language can turn into the absurd. “Absurdities in the correction madness. And after the first laugh you can still giggle at a wonderfully incorrect detail: the precarious onion that leans intoxicated against the wall and probably hopes in vain for a few coins from the correct potato.”
German Caricature Award 2021: More than 1000 works submitted
The second prize, the “Winged Pencil in Silver”, went to the Hamburg quay Flemming. He convinced the jury with his submitted picture “Racist clichés”. Then a waitress comes to the table where an African and an Asian who are drawn in stereotypes are sitting. When asked what she does for a living, she replies: “I use racist clichés.”
Katharina Greve won bronze for her cartoon titled “Anti-Semitism”. Annika Frank from Mannheim was honored as the best newcomer on the scene.
According to the organizers, 248 draftsmen submitted around 1150 works this year. A total of 11,000 euros was distributed to the winners.
Next year the prize will be awarded in Düsseldorf
The prize is awarded by the “Sächsische Zeitung” and the Bremen “Weser-Kurier”. In the coming year there will be an innovation: Then the “Rheinische Post” will be added as a new partner.
And the event has a new location: the award ceremony, which has been held in Bremen and Dresden every year since 2016, will take place for the first time in 2022 in Düsseldorf, where the “Rheinische Post” is located. In view of the ripe harvest this year, we can already look forward to it.
The caricatures can be viewed daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Haus der Presse in Dresden until February 27, 2022. In the Bremen citizenship will hang the drawings from December 1, 2021 to February 4, 2022.