Adolf Grimme Awards

The Adolf Grimme Award is the most important German TV award. It is also called the "German TV Oscar". It is named after the first general director of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme.

The awards ceremony takes place once a year at Theater Marl and is hosted by the Adolf-Grimme-Institut in Marl. Since 1964 it awards productions "that use the specific possibilities of the medium television in an extraordinary manner and at the same time can serve as examples regarding content and method". [http://www.grimme-institut.de]

Award Winners (since 2008)

2008

Fiction

*Eine andere Liga (ZDF/ARTE)
**Buket Alakus (Script/Directing)
**Jan Berger (Script)
**Karoline Herfurth, Ken Duken, Thierry van Werveke (Acting)

*Eine Stadt wird erpresst (ZDF/ARTE)
**Dominik Graf (Script/Directing)
**Rolf Basedow (Script)
**Alex Fischerkoesen (Camera)
**Uwe Kockisch (Lead Actor)

*Guten Morgen, Herr Grothe (ARD/WDR)
**Beate Langmaack (Script)
**Lars Kraume (Directing)
**Sebastian Blomberg und Ludwig Trepte (Acting)
**Nessie Nesslauer (Casting)

*KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst (ZDF)
**Orkun Ertener (Script)
**Kathrin Breininger (Production)
**Manfred Zapatka (stellv. für das Darstellerteam)

*An die Grenze (ZDF/ARTE)
**Stefan Kolditz (Script)
**Urs Egger (Directing)
**Christian Granderath (Production)
**Jacob Matschenz und Bernadette Heerwagen (Acting)

Entertainment

*Dr. Psycho (ProSieben)
**Ralf Husmann (Headwriter)
**Ralf Huettner and Richard Huber (Directing)
**Christian Ulmen (stellv. für das Darstellerteam)

*Fröhliche Weihnachten (Sat.1)
**Anke Engelke and Bastian Pastewka (Lead Actor)

Information & Culture

*Unser täglich Brot (ZDF/3sat/ORF)
**Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Script/Directing/Camera)
**Wolfgang Widerhofer (Script/Editing/Dramaturgy)

*Das kurze Leben des José Antonio Gutierrez (ZDF/ARTE)
**Heidi Specogna (Script/Directing)

*monks - the transatlantic feedback (ZDF/3sat/HR)
**Dietmar Post und Lucia Palacios (Script/Directing)

*Die Sammlung Prinzhorn - Wahnsinnige Schönheit. (Nach dem Arzt Hans Prinzhorn) (SWR/ZDFdokukanal)
**Christian Beetz (Script/Directing)

*Luise – eine deutsche Muslima (NDR/WDR/ARTE)
**Beatrix Schwehm (Script/Directing)

Tribute
*Iris Berben

Special Awards

*Special award Kultur des Landes NRW
**Sandra Schießl for directing the animation film Tomte Tummetott und der Fuchs (ZDF)

*Audience Award Marler Gruppe
**Christian Beetz for Script and Directing the Documentation Die Sammlung Prinzhorn - Wahnsinnige Schönheit (SWR/ZDFdokukanal)

*Mercedes-Benz Grant
**Clemens Schönborn for Script and Directing the Film Der Letzte macht das Licht aus (ZDF)

Other Famous Laureates

External links

* [http://www.grimme-institut.de/html/index.php?id=8 „Adolf-Grimme-Preis“ des Adolf Grimme Instituts] mit einer [http://www.grimme-institut.de/html/index.php?id=45 Liste der Preisträger]
* [http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/artikel/682/105577/ Adolf-Grimme Preis 2007]
* [http://www.grimme-institut.de/html/index.php?id=45/ Adolf-Grimme Preis 2008]