Regensburg: Culture Prize to Medard Kammermeier – Munich

The city of Regensburg awarded its culture prize 2022 to Medard Kammermeier for his life’s work. The long-time managing director of the association Arbeitskreis Film initiated, among other things, the Regensburg Silent Film Week, the International Short Film Week and the open-air series Cinema Paradiso. “Medard Kammermeier was always committed to the academic transfer of knowledge about the history and aesthetics of film, was always willing to experiment and was open to new formats and was involved in almost all local film festivals as an initiator or organizer,” says the jury . The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros. Three cultural awards and 2500 euros each go to the musician “Die Nowak”, the artist Nico Sawatzki and the network project “Ghost Town Radio”.

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