Comic Con Germany
| Comic Con Germany | |
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| Branch | Comics and film adaptations |
| Place of issue | Stuttgart Exhibition Center |
| First exhibition | 2016 |
| Website | www.comiccon.de |
| Last exhibition | |
| date | June 29, 2019 to June 30, 2019 |
| Visitors | 50,000+ |
| Exhibition space | 30,000 m² |
| Next exhibition | |
| date | Nov 28, 2020 to Nov 29, 2020 |
The Comic Con Germany is a trade show held annually in since 2016 Stuttgart takes place. She deals with v. a. with comics and comic adaptations .
history
After German comic fans have so far mainly visited the Leipzig Book Fair and the Cologne Comic Fair, a corresponding event was organized as a German counterpart based on the example of the US San Diego Comic-Con International . The first Comic Con Germany took place on June 25 and 26, 2016 in Stuttgart and attracted over 50,000 visitors. Since then, however, the number of visitors has declined, with 40,000 visitors in 2018 and another 35,000 visitors in 2019. In contrast to the German Comic Con , an identically oriented trade fair with several dates and locations per year, the Comic Con Germany plans to have the event only once a year in the future. The second Comic Con Germany took place on July 1st and 2nd, 2017.
Venue
The venue of the Comic Con Germany was Stuttgart chosen where about 50,000 square meters of space available in the L-Bank Forum in Hall 1 and their environment available, including more than 30,000 square meters of exhibition space.
organizer
The Comic Con Germany is organized by Comic Con Germany GmbH and its managing directors Dirk Bartholomae, who in 1982 first Star Wars -Conventions organized and full-time organized such a fan events since 1996th In addition, Bartholomä organized the fantasy fair Ring-Con and the science fiction convention FedCon in Bonn , for which the Fed Con GmbH was founded. 40,000 tickets had already been sold in advance sales at Comic Con Germany 2016 . The Panini-Verlag supports Comic Con Germany with fair-exclusive publications for collectors.
Profile and supporting program
In addition to sales stands from national and international comic publishers and providers of audiobooks and merchandising in a large dealer area, there are also lectures, workshops, gaming zones , walking acts and a large cosplay parade, which also turned Comic Con Germany into a convention where Offers like-minded people the opportunity to meet, exchange ideas and live out the shared hobby. In addition, exhibitions of film props have been set up, and premieres of films and television series have been held. In addition, well-known comic artists and well-known actors from various television series and films are invited, with whom fans can be photographed and who are also available for panels and autograph sessions . The actors are mostly known from the horror genre or as science fiction and fantasy greats , with a special focus on actors from superhero films.
Guests
As the first guest at Comic Con Germany 2016 , Robert Picardo from Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager and Stargate Atlantis had accepted . This was followed by the acceptance of actress Nicole de Boer , known from the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the role of Ezri Dax , Cody Saintgnue from Teen Wolf and Robert Maschio from Scrubs - The Beginners . Actors from the television series Marvel's Agents of SHIELD ( Mark Dacascos , Ming-Na Wen and Brett Dalton ), The Flash ( John Wesley ) and The 100 ( Richard Harmon , Bob Morley and Ricky Whittle ) were later announced, but also actors from the series Battlestar Galactica , American Horror Story, and Sons of Anarchy . Kelly Hu from X-Men 2 and Corinne Cléry from Moonraker were announced as film actors .
Star guests at Comic Con Germany 2017 included actors John Barrowman from Torchwood , Dirk Benedict and Herbert Jefferson Jr. from Kampfstern Galactica , Demore Barnes and Ricky Whittle from American Gods , Valene Kane from Star Wars and Michael Biehn from Terminator .
At Comic Con Germany 2018 , among others, the following actors were guests in Stuttgart: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Pilou Asbæk from Game of Thrones , Robert Maschio from Scrubs and Marina Sirtis from Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century .
At Comic Con Germany 2019 the guests included Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner from Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century , Karen Gillan from Doctor Who , Iwan Rheon from Game of Thrones and Pom Klementieff from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 as well as Richard Dean Anderson from MacGyver .
Web links
- Comic Con Germany on Facebook
- Official website
- Interview with Dirk Bartholomä at comic-report.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Pop Culture Fair: First Comic Cons in Germany In: Spiegel Online, July 2, 2015.
- ↑ a b c Adam Arndt: Comic Con Germany: These TV guests are coming to Stuttgart in 2016 In: serienjunkies.de, December 22, 2015.
- ↑ Steve Przybilla and Jörg Breithut: Comic Con Germany in Stuttgart: Comics, Captains and Commerce In: SPIEGEL ONLINE, June 27, 2016.
- ↑ Marina Behre: Hotels are being built diligently in Stuttgart Date: August 4, 2019.
- ↑ Petra Mostbacher: Comic Con in Stuttgart: Visitors reveal stories about their outfits In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de, July 1, 2017.
- ↑ Comic Con Germany ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: messe-stuttgart.de. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
- ↑ a b c Comic Con 2016 in Stuttgart In: digitalproduction.com, July 2, 2015.
- ↑ Comic Con Messe Stuttgart: Comic heroes hand in hand | Baden-Württemberg | News. Retrieved July 7, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d Gunther Reinhardt: Comic Con to Stuttgart. Everything's so colorful here! In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, August 1, 2015.
- ↑ The upcoming Comic Cons in Germany ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: zeitzeugin.net, July 5, 2015.
- ↑ Dirk Bartholomä, Comic Con Germany GmbH In: moneyhouse.de. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
- ↑ Markus Böhm: Fantasy-Messen: 'We used to be portrayed as idiots' In: Spiegel Online, November 2, 2013.
- ^ A b Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: Comic Con in Stuttgart: Between mythical creatures, stormtroopers and Klingons - Stuttgarter Zeitung. Retrieved July 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Comic Con Germany 2016 in Stuttgart In: boersenblatt.net, July 2, 2015.
- ↑ a b Comic Con Germany 2016 In: messen.de. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
- ↑ Star guests of Comic Con Germany 2018. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 12, 2018 ; accessed on July 12, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Report from Comic Con Germany 2019: Stuttgart under the banner of pop culture. Retrieved July 10, 2019 .
