The Grimme award is one of the most important awards for quality television in Germany. Now the winners were announced. Of the 16 awards: 13 to go on public broadcasters .

Zum 55. The Grimme Institute’s outstanding TV performances. This year, 72 productions and individual performances are nominated. A total of 16 awards in four categories: fiction, entertainment, Information and culture, as well as children and youth will be awarded. 13 of them go to public broadcasters, and three private providers. The awards are at 5. April 2019 in the Theater of the city of Marl awarded.

“The Story in the First – On the right edge” in the competition category “Information and culture”. The NDR Journalist, Michael Richter, and the MDR-journalist Jana Merkel to go with Anton Maegerle is the question of how far to the right the AfD. The Jury is, the NDR/MDR documentation was “political Auflärung at the highest level”. It is the “best Reportage” on the AfD, “which was shown in German television so far”. Further on, it says: “Precise and trenchant, well-researched and always backed up by hard evidence Jana Merkel and Michael judge to cover the linkages of the AfD, with many clearly right-wing and anti-constitutional groups.”

“The Story in the First – On the right edge is” the “best Reportage” on the AfD, the Jury.

audience award for network of the world-documentary

The Grimme audience award goes to the documentary “In the shadow of the power of the world – The Cleaners”, a Co-production of WDR, NDR and rbb. Hans Block and Moritz giant Wieck on ceilings, what is the impact of Online censorship of social networks has on our Thinking and how the Shadow is that it operates. The Jury of the Grimme prize, praised both the content as well as the creative implementation. There is enlightenment in the best sense of the word.

The documentary “In the shadow of the power of the world – The Cleaners” on the covers, what is the impact of Online censorship of social networks has on our Thinking.

the price for a “special Journalistic performance” in the category of Information and culture will be awarded to the journalist Isabel Schayani. The Jury praised the special quality of their daily topics-comments, mirror of the world-presentations and WDRforyou posts. Schayani has done a Facebook live stream for the Portal WDRforyou, which is in four languages, in particular, to Refugees.

For “outstanding Journalistic performance” is awarded to the journalist Isabel Schayani.

in addition, 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. Was awarded also the documentation of “fraud – the rise and fall of a high-lift truck” (SWR). A special prize goes to the WDR’s three-part series, “the unequal land – wealth, opportunities, Power,” and the accompanying Online concept.

“Kroymann”

In the category of “entertainment,” awarded a Grimme award goes once again to the Comedy series “Kroymann” by Radio Bremen, SWR and NDR. After the debut episode in the past year, the consequences of two to six will now be awarded. This year, the series has received also the German television award as “Best Comedy”. In the named after her broadcast, Maren Kroymann and head author Sebastian Colley take apart everything that is politically correct. To the justification, in all their roles Kroymann a wonderful diversity to the day, both as regards the humour and the spectacle.

In the Comedy series “Kroymann” Kroymann a wonderful diversity to the day, was the verdict of the Jury.

in addition, the Jury found the satellite.1-show “CATCH!” with Comedian Luke Mockridge for price-worthy.

The award-winning presenter and television maker Jan böhmermann and his Team will receive the coveted TV award this year for “Let you monitor! – The Prism Is A Dancer Show” of ZDF/ZDFneo to the handling of personal data on the Internet.

Need to be a larger showcase four Grimme Cabinet: To Jan böhm, Claus-prices another.

in 2019, however, again a strong series of the year, the Jury found. In the category of fiction, for example, “hacker Ville” (HBO Europe/TNT Serie), “Bad Banks” (ZDF/Arte) and “Beat” (Amazon Prime Video) will be awarded with the Grimme award.

In fiction competition, the Jury awards, in addition to the three series, the ARD Comedy, “family Lotzmann on the barricades” and the Berlin “scene of the crime: Meta”.

In the category “children and youth” will be awarded for the first Time a special award: The Jury awarded Marco Giacopuzzi “for its outstanding author power, his sense of theme and protagonists, and the sensitive and touching implementation of contributions” to the series “Look into my world” (HR). For the radio Format “Bohemian Browser ballet” (SWR), as well as for the SWR was responsible for the KiKA series “Animanimals”.

the presence of the topics in focus

Institute-Director Frauke Gerlach noted in the announcement of the winner of the Grimme award a special focus on contemporary issues. It had in all of the categories observed, “how current discourses on cyber-crime, right-wing populism or social injustice-researched by engaging in a staged, comprehensive, but also humorous stories, be transported”.