Three German TV series to be awarded this year with the Grimme-award. The prestigious award goes to “Bad Banks”, “Beat” and “hacker Ville”, such as the Grimme Institute announced on Tuesday in Essen. In addition to the ZDF (“Bad Banks”), and the pay-TV channel TNT Serie (“hacker Ville”), receives for “Beat” for the first Time the streaming service, Amazon Prime Video the price.
Overall, will be awarded this year, 16 Grimme prizes in four categories: fiction, entertainment, Information and culture, as well as children and youth. In the fiction competition, the Jury awards, in addition to the three series, the ARD Comedy, “family Lotzmann on the barricades” and the “scene of the crime: Meta” from Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RRB). The special prize goes to author Erol Yesilkaya and Director Sebastian Marka. Starting from the Berlinale-the Film “Meta” is a clever Film-within-a-Film scenario, in the case of murder manhunt by Nina Rubin (Meret Becker) and Robert Karow (Mark Waschke) is constantly between fiction and reality is changed.
Bohemian man wins fifth Grimme-award
The satirist Jan böhmermann is now one of the subscription price makers in Grimme. His show, “Let’s monitor you! The Prism is a Dancer Show“ (YouTube) about the handling of personal data on the Internet award in the entertainment category. Bohemian man had already received in the past three years, as well as the 2014 Grimme awards. Also, Maren Kroymann receives for their Comedy show, “Kroymann” the second Grimme award
The documentary “Kulenkampffs shoes” (SWR/HR) is among the prize winners in the category of Information and culture. Director Regina Schilling depicts the example of popular TV Shows, the postwar period and their own family history. Among the other winners in this competition of “fraud – the rise and fall of a high-lift truck” (SWR) and “The Story in the First: On the right edge” (NDR/MDR). In the category of children and youth, among other things, the filmmaker Marco Giacopuzzi is being honored for his contributions to the series “Look into my world” (HR/Kika).
“this year, the category was cross-watching, such as complex current discourses on cyber-crime, right-wing populism or social injustice by engaging, staged, and comprehensively researched, but also humorous stories, to be transported,” said Grimme-Director Frauke Gerlach, the price decisions.
ARD wins the most awards
Behind all of the individual winners of the ARD can look forward to the most: the prize of the Marler group/audience award for “The Cleaners” have won the ARD twelve of the 17 awards. Prices across all categories to show the diversity and the diversity of the channel network, ahead of all other systems and especially the market leader, ZDF, was only able to win two Grimme prices. The First don’t want to be like the Second in terms of market share up front, but in the case of width, height and depth of the claim.
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The undoped prize is this year to 55. Times forgiven, and price is considered the most important German television. The awards are at 5. April in the theatre of Marl presented. (epd)
