Year Review 2016
for Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2017 by the Association Of Illustrators
For the Year Review 2016 of Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin I illustrated the entire magazine with around 30 illustrations. The editors provided me with around 70 topics of the year, I choose 30 to illustrate. Initial roughs digital in Photoshop and on my phone and with pens in my sketchbook. Overall message (specially for the cover): We haven't been nice to the year 2016. We could do better.
The Brexit
On 23 June 2016, 51.9% voted for the for the United Kingdom's intended withdrawal from the European Union.
Many people struggeld with the consequences of a disturbing and dishonest Leave campaign.
Jerome Boateng at the 2016 UEFA European Championship in France
2016 Munich shooting
On 22 July 2016, a shooting occurred in the vicinity of the Olympia shopping mall in Munich, Germany. Ten people, including the perpetrator, were killed and 36 others were injured. A highly recognized video footage shows the gunman walking alone on the roof of an empty car park before opening fire again.
FIFA presidential election, 2016
The Hillary Clinton Email Controversy
Illustration for the Year Review 2016 of Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin: In March 2015, it became publicly known that Hillary Clinton, during her tenure as United States Secretary of State, had used her family's private email server for official communications, rather than official State Department email accounts maintained on federal servers. Those official communications included thousands of emails that would retroactively be marked classified by the State Department. The controversy unfolded against the backdrop of Clinton's 2016 presidential election campaign. Hillary Clinton attributed her presidential election loss to the ongoing investigation, saying they stopped her momentum.
Nobel Prize in Literature 2016
Patti Smith acceptes the Nobel Prize in Literature on behalf of Bob Dylan after he refuses to attempt the Nobel Prize Ceremony
Portrait of Jan Böhmermann
RAF seniors
In January 2016, German police identified three RAF members as being the perpetrators of an assault on an armored truck transporting €1 million, thus fueling suspicion that RAF might be active again
2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt
Rio 2016 Summer Olympics
New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Cologne
Portrait of Donald J. Trump
The Volkswagen Diesel Gate
Rest In Peace Bud Spencer
AfD strategies
The leaders of the AfD - Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany), a political party in Germany between right-wing and far-right populism, and there attempt of starting controversy debates and back-pedalling right after the media covered it.
Rest In Peace David Bowie
Angela Merkel
Vladimir Putin and Horst Seehofer
