“Ahmadjan und der Wiedehopf” by Maren and Ahmadjan Amini wins the Berthold Leibinger Comic Book Prize 2023.
“Ahmadjan und der Wiedehopf” by Maren and Ahmadjan Amini wins the Berthold Leibinger Comic Book Prize 2023.
The work is a parable about the emigration of the protagonist Ahmadjan from Afghanistan to Germany.
The 2023 winners of the Berthold Leibinger Comic Book Prize are the father-daughter duo Maren and Ahmadjan Amini from Hamburg. The prize is endowed with 20,000 EUR.
In the award-winning volume “Ahmadjan and the Hoopoe”, illustrator Maren Amini tells her father’s story, inspired by the tale of the “Conference of the Birds” by Fariduddin Attar (1136-1220).
The winning book is a very important and personal project for the winning duo. “Through the comic book, we want to remember an Afghanistan that consisted of social and cultural diversity. We want to honour Afghan roots, come closer as father and daughter in artistic dialogue, and as artists, we don’t want to silently accept that the Taliban are once again destroying Afghanistan’s culture.” Maren Amini
The volume is expected to be around 200 pages long and will be completed by mid-2023 be completed.
