German Film Awards 2016: The Spring Fairy Tale – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Sure, the knives were already being sharpened. As always when a film critic to write about the German Film Prize. About the incomprehensible nominations, the seemingly arbitrary rules, the award of consensus movies, the endless and hüftsteife Gala. Also in 2016 These criticisms did not dissolve at about in the air. But in view of the spring tale that the German film gives himself this year, the blades remain in the drawer. The fun, the straight, the film community in itself is palpable. Even with this, despite everything again endless hüftsteifen Gala.

The Spring Fairytale began two weeks ago on the Croisette in Cannes with the brilliant, totally unexpected course of the German film “Toni Erdmann” by Maren Ade, the critics and the public in Sturm conquered, and the world was amazed at how funny and biting may be the German film. And it sat last night at the award ceremony of the German Film Prize continues, as with the wonderful Laura Tonke an actress was equal to twice awarded, with their names so far not many viewers must have been very familiar.

“Now and then you will just remember this is normal,” she had said in a recent interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE. And then she sat at the gala as chained to her chair, totally incredulous whether their name, the presenter Christoph Maria Herbst had called up in the hall, when it came to honor the actress for best supporting actor. Your transition to the stage had seen from the outside as an out of body experience, and there she told then with the typical openness that is always attested her and with whom she plays her roles that she had firmly believed miscast in the movie “Mängelexemplar” to have been.

 
 
 

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Christoph Maria Herbst

That Laura Tonke then also the award for the best female lead in the tragicomedy “Hedi Schneider stuck” was awarded, was not only well deserved, there was this evening in the Berlin Palais am Funkturm also a shine to the film award galas in recent years so did not bring about. At its second acceptance speech this evening Laura Tonke was then fully present, said that they had felt perceived already by the nomination and dedicated the award to “all Difficult, which can not adapt or want all Hedi Schneiders.”

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in general, this was the eve of the German film-Women: the director Theresa von Eltz award for “4 kings” with a film award in Bronze , the producer Regina Ziegler received the top prize, and Maren Ade’s Cannes success bathing everything in an even brighter sparkle. The structural disadvantages of women in the film industry are thus naturally not passé – but the blades should remain so in the drawer

Thankfully was cut together the show for time-shifted television broadcasting to two and a half hours.. Those present on the spot had to wait another hour reportedly. The viewers were indeed so deprived the combative speech by Academy president Iris Berben that this prompted the artist to act in the face of foreigners and anti-Islamic thought. But they also had only short excerpts moderated by Jan Josef Liefers withstand whose skits came rather semi-humorous and elongated back. In contrast to the spontaneous reaction of Ronald Zehrfeld who was honored “The State against Fritz Bauer” for best supporting actor in. He let out a hearty “Holy shit!”

 
 
 

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Edin Hasanovic and Jan Josef Liefers

at the end quite exhausted

Nevertheless, it was at the end of the gala at the award of the best film out to be rather exhausted. The fact that the price of consensus film 2016 was clearing – “The State against Fritz Bauer” had previously been the prize for best director and four other Lolas get – could give the now in the chair slumped body no new energy boost more. Yes, yes, all right, the political drama is of course very meritorious.

Artistically to lengths meaningful but “Before the Dawn” by Maria Schrader as “Fritz Bauer” a political biopic and a marvel the art of staging. Maria Schrader should have been awarded the Director’s Award and so can still increase the success of the women that night much. It should not be. For Laura Tonke allowed then for the third time on the stage. They had in fact also played in a mini-supporting role Fritz Bauer secretary. It was her evening.

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The winners of the 66th German Film Prize in the Summary

Best Picture, gold (500,000 euros): “The State has failed to Fritz Bauer” by Lars Kraume

Best Feature film in silver (425,000 euros), “Herbert” by Thomas Stuber

Best Feature film in bronze (375,000 euros): “4 kings” by Theresa von Eltz

Best children’s film (250,000 Euro): “Heidi” by Alain Gsponer

Best documentary (200,000 euros): “Above and Below” by Nicolas Steiner

speedwell (undoped): film producer Regina Ziegler

Bernd Eichinger price (undoped): film producer Stefan Arndt

visitors strongest film of the year (undoped): “F * ck You, Goethe 2″ of Bora Dagtekin

Best Actress (10,000 euros): Laura Tonke ( ” Hedi Schneider stuck “)

Best male lead (10,000 euros): Peter Kurth (” Herbert “)

Best Supporting Actress (10,000 euros): Laura Tonke ( “Mängelexemplar”)

Best Supporting Actor (10,000 euros): Ronald Zehrfeld ( “The State against Fritz Bauer”)

Best director (10,000 euros): Lars Kraume ( “The State against Fritz Bauer”)

Best camera / art work (10,000 euros ): Markus Nestroy ( “Above and Below”)

Best screenplay (10,000 euros): Lars Kraume and Olivier Guez ( “The State against Fritz Bauer”)

Best Editing (10,000 euros): Alexander Berner ( “A hologram for the King”)

Best Art (10,000 euros): Cora Pratz ( “The State against Fritz Bauer”)

Best Costume Design (10,000 euros): Esther Walz ( “The State against Fritz Bauer”)

Best Score (10,000 euros): Alexandre Desplat ( “Everything Will Be Fine”

Best Sound Design (10,000 euros): Roland angulation, Matthias Lempert and Frank Kruse ( ” a hologram for the King “)

Best makeup (10,000 euros): Hanna Chopper (” Herbert “)

the prize money for the movies are earmarked for the preparation of a new film.