The Hamburger Bilderbuchpreis (Hamburg Picture Book Prize) is awarded every two years by the Verein Neues Bilderbuch
The prize honours as-yet unpublished contemporary picture book ideas. The prize money is €12,000.
The Verein Neues Bilderbuch awards the prize in order to promote illustrators who impress with their artistic attitudes, and who convey commendable impulses for picture book art.
The independent jury comprises renowned picture book experts and representatives of our partners from the illustrators’ organisation IO, from the publishing house that will be publishing the books, and from the Kinderbuchhaus (House of Children’s Books) at the Altona Museum. The jury is chaired by the artistic director of the Verein Neues Bilderbuch.
The work awarded the 2025 Hamburger Bilderbuchpreis will be published by Aladin Verlag.
JURY 2025
Dieter Böge, Bilderbuchautor, Verein Neues Bilderbuch
Dr. Dagmar Gausmann, ,Leiterin des Kinderbuchhauses in Hamburg
Anna Janke, Bilderbuchlektorin, Aladin Verlag
Prof. Henning Wagenbreth, Illustrator, Universität der Künste Berlin
Elsa Klever, Illustratorin
Sabine Wilharm, Illustratorin
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The NEUES BILDERBUCH association would like to thank the jury and all participants in the competition. We would like to thank the Senator for Culture of the City of Hamburg for his patronage this year and look forward to the HAMBURGER BILDERBUCHPREIS 2025!