If you want to capture the past year through the winners of this year’s Grimme Awards, then this German television year 2021 primarily dealt with mental illnesses, with the pandemic, with right-wing violence, flight and precarious working conditions. The actor and director Bjarne Mädel is honored in two productions. In the TV movie delivered he plays a single parent parcel boy, and in his directorial debut Sorensen is scared he’s a police commissioner with an anxiety disorder. The special honor of the German Adult Education Association goes to Anke Engelke, who “with her innovative creativity and witty adaptability has made an exemplary contribution to the medium of television,” according to the jury.
Further prizes in the fiction category go to the Police call 110 – Sabine and the RBB series Tina mobile. The series filmed by Sky also received an award The Ibiza Affair about the scandal of the former Austrian vice chancellor, which the SZ researched.
According to the Grimme jury, the ZDF journalist Katrin Eigendorf received the award for “Special Journalistic Achievement” for her “excellent reports on the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan”. In the Information & Culture category, the documentation Hanau – One night and its consequences about the attack on February 19, 2020, and Black eagles about decades of racism in German football. The 3sat film received further prizes economy about finance and the series Charité intensive: Ward 43 (RBB), which accompanies doctors, nurses and patients in the Corona ward of the Berlin Charité for months.
In the conversation, a sequence of Chez Kroemer excellent, in the Kurt Kromer and his guest Torsten Sträter talk about their own experiences with depression. Also the WDR show Friday night Jews With Daniel Donskoy about Jewish life in Germany is honored with a Grimme Prize. The ProSieben format gets one of the few prizes for productions from private broadcasters Who steals the show from me?.
With the Grimme Prize in the Children & Youth category, the “original concept” of the HR format At the limit?! Now WE talk! honored, as well as the moderation team of open and honest (SR/funk) and the short film seahorse (MDR) on how young Hanan coped with the trauma after fleeing Iraq.
The very personal documentary received the prize of the Grimme Prize, which was convened for the first time Una Primavera about domestic violence and its impact on a family. With the Audience Award from the Marler Group, the series The Mopes (Warner TV Comedy) with Nora Tschirner. The award ceremony will take place on August 26th in the Marler Theater.