As of: 08/27/2021 9:43 pm
Last year, the awarding of the Grimme Prize had to pause due to corona. But now media professionals have been honored again. One of the winners this year was daily topics-Moderator Caren Miosga.
The Grimme Institute awarded this year’s awards for good television in Marl. Was one of the award winners daily topics-Moderator Caren Miosga. In addition, the work of the science journalist Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim was recognized, whose programs in the online youth service Funk (SWR / WDR) on the subject of Corona praised the jury as a “special journalistic achievement”. Isabel Schayani from WDR She also received a special Grimme Prize for her reporting from the Greek refugee camp Moria.
The renowned television award was presented to a live audience for the first time after the corona-related break last year, but on a smaller scale. 15 TV productions and three TV journalists received the 57th Grimme Awards.
In the fiction category, among other things, the Netflix series “Unorthodox” received an award. In the “Entertainment” category, the awards went to “15 Minuten Joko & Klaas – Men’s Worlds” (ProSieben) and “The Carolin Kebekus Show” (ARD / WDR).
“Impressive cultural diversity”
“In this remarkable award year, we are seeing what contemporary television can do,” emphasized the director of the Grimme Institute, Frauke Gerlach. The quality profile of the Grimme year 2021 includes “an impressive cultural diversity that can counteract the increasing arbitrariness of content and form driven by network logic”. In view of the growing competition from digital media, television “cannot avoid further sharpening its quality profile”.
In this context, Gerlach also praised the fact that the private broadcasters had launched quality offensives. Watch this “with appreciation and attention,” she said. The Grimme Prize is donated by the German Adult Education Association, further partners are the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and ZDF, WDR and 3sat.