Security element with tilt effect

A security element for security papers or value documents that presents to a viewer an alternating image with at least two different views, with the first view showing a first motif and the second view showing a second motif, which appear in the same or at least overlapping zones, wherein

• the first and second motifs each consist of a foreground region which appears bright and a background region which surrounds this foreground region and appears dark,
• under directed illumination, on the tilting of the security element about a first axis, the first motif appears only in a first viewing angle range and the second motif only in a second viewing angle range, with the two viewing angle ranges being different and not overlapping,
• in the first and second viewing angle ranges, respectively, the sheetlike pattern can be tilted about a second axis in an angular range of at least 5°, without the first and second views, respectively, disappearing or undergoing substantial alteration,
• the bright foreground regions of the two motifs are ray-optically acting relief structures, more particularly micromirror structures,
• the dark background regions are relief structures which absorb the incident light and/or reflect the incident light in directions outside the viewing angle ranges intended for the two views.