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Das Gurkerl
Illustrierte Erzählung | Zweifach ausgezeichnet beim Bachmann-Wettbewerb 2024
48 pages
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So ein hundsgeschissenes Gurkerl!
JOHANNA SEBAUER
Das Gurkerl / The Little Pickle
A Story, ca. 48 pages
With 25 illustrations, May 2026
Winner of the 3sat Prize and Audience Award at the Bachmann Competition 2024
"Johanna Sebauer proves with her text that literature can be entertaining and funny yet meaningful."
JURY, BACHMANN COMPETITION
"A very funny, fast satire on current outrage culture, runaway debates, and polarization."
DER STANDARD
Illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach
What a Rotten Little Gherkin!
Summer in the city’s newspaper editorial offices. A truly important editor-in-chief prepares his breakfast roll. Side dish: crunchy gherkins.
As he bites into it, vinegar water squirts straight into his eye. The uproar is huge; the editor-in-chief is on the verge of blindness! The
incident causes a stir: the mishap becomes a column, then a topic for letters to the editor, interviews, and finally a public debate. Gherkins are banned, protests form, and the editorial team splits into factions.
With biting irony, Johanna Sebauer, comments on today’s culture of outrage - brilliantly illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach.
Das Gurkerl / The Little Pickle
A Story, ca. 48 pages
With 25 illustrations, May 2026
Winner of the 3sat Prize and Audience Award at the Bachmann Competition 2024
"Johanna Sebauer proves with her text that literature can be entertaining and funny yet meaningful."
JURY, BACHMANN COMPETITION
"A very funny, fast satire on current outrage culture, runaway debates, and polarization."
DER STANDARD
Illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach
What a Rotten Little Gherkin!
Summer in the city’s newspaper editorial offices. A truly important editor-in-chief prepares his breakfast roll. Side dish: crunchy gherkins.
As he bites into it, vinegar water squirts straight into his eye. The uproar is huge; the editor-in-chief is on the verge of blindness! The
incident causes a stir: the mishap becomes a column, then a topic for letters to the editor, interviews, and finally a public debate. Gherkins are banned, protests form, and the editorial team splits into factions.
With biting irony, Johanna Sebauer, comments on today’s culture of outrage - brilliantly illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach.
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Johanna Sebauer
Johanna Sebauer, born in Vienna in 1988 and raised in a small Burgenland village near the Hungarian border, studied political science and journalism...
Johanna Sebauer, born in Vienna in 1988 and raised in a small Burgenland village near the Hungarian border, studied political science and journalism and worked in science communication. She has published short stories and essays in several anthologies.Her novel Nincshof won the Debut Prize of the Harbour Front Literature Festival in 2023 and was shortlisted forthe Hamburg Book of the Year 2023. Her text Das Gurkerl (DuMont 2026) was awarded both the 3sat Prize and theAudience Award at the Days...
Nikolaus Heidelbach
Nikolaus Heidelbach lives in Cologne. His picture books and illustrations have received numerous awards, and he was awarded the special prize of the...
Nikolaus Heidelbach lives in Cologne. His picture books and illustrations have received numerous awards, and he was awarded the special prize of the German Youth Literature Prize for his complete works.