Television Price: Böhmermann gets Grimme Prize for #Varoufake – ZEIT ONLINE

TV series and the private TV channels are time the big winners at the Grimme Prize. As the Grimme Institute in Essen Grillo Theatre announced among the 15 excellent formats are four private productions. Last year, public broadcasters were exclusively among the winners. The undoped Grimme Award is the most prestigious TV award in Germany. It is awarded every year since 1964 in the Westphalian Marl.

can look over an award this year Jan Böhmermann, Philipp Käßbohrer and Matthias Murmann. For #Varoufake in Neo Magazine Royale at ZDFneo there is a special prize in the category Entertainment.

A special prize for moderation and editors of the series Marhaba – Arrive in Germany of n-tv hits Constantin Schreiber, who also works for Arabic channels. For the first time a format Award, which was first produced only for the network and there provided.

RTL won one of the prestigious TV awards for the eight-espionage production Germany 83 . The Ufa production accompanied a young East German soldier who is introduced as a spy in the West in 1983, thereby falling into the machinations of the secret services.

for “Schorsch Aigner” Olli Dittrich excellent

In the fiction category, a distinction goes to the third season of the series Weissensee (MDR / Degeto). A special price to get the makers of the series Vineyard (TNT series). With the only awarded in this category price for a single piece of the Jury Patong Girl (ZDF) stands out. Olli Dittrich won with the WDR-production Schorsch Aigner -. The man Franz Beckenbauer was its fourth Grimme Prize

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Screenshot from a YouTube video that Günther Jauch vorführte in an ARD talk show. It shows the former economics professor Giani Varoufakis during a lecture at a conference in Zagreb in 2013. The makers to #Varoufake falsified it so that it looked as show Varoufakis the finger. © Allessandro del Prete / dpa

Five prizes will be awarded in the category of information and Culture: For the long-term documentary Divine Location (WDR / Arte) about social change in a Dortmund Neighborhood are Michael Loeken excellent and Ulrike Franke (written and directed). Jürgen Brügger and Jörg Haaßengier (Writer and Director) received an award for From Order of Things (ZDF / Arte). For The consequences of the act (WDR / SWR / NDR) about the murders of the RAF and their consequences, the jury Julia Albrecht and Dagmar Gallenmüller (written and directed) is distinguished.

“Streetphilosophy” Receives Innovation Award

is The Ceremony The first price for a particular journalistic performance in the category of information and culture Daniel Harrich representative for the team of Deadly exports (SWR) excellent. The jury praised the “extraordinary investigative research” about the illegal arms trade and the “exemplary preparation of the combined material in various television formats”.

The 2016 for the first time awarded Innovation Prize in the Entertainment category goes to the format Streetphilosophy of rbb and Arte. “In half an hour the great philosophers and / or major issues to investigate – that’s extraordinary,” the jury said.