The German Television Award will return to the screen as a big show in 2021. It is now known who can hope for the trophy. One thing is clear: the pandemic has also left its mark on the program.
Cologne – ZDF talker Markus Lanz has been nominated for the German Television Award. The 52-year-old competes for the coveted trophy in the traditional journalist category “Best Information” with his talk show named after him, “Markus Lanz”.
The jury announced this on Wednesday in Cologne. In the info section, the nomination definitely stands out. Two classic political magazines were nominated together with Lanz: “Frontal” (ZDF) and “Panorama” (ARD / NDR).
In recognition of the talker, it was said that Lanz had “clarified, classified and oriented” in the “confusing continuous fire of the pronouncements and ordinances of the corona year 2020/21” in his evening rounds of talks. That was an “important contribution to the social discourse, especially in times of lockdown”.
In total, the nominees from 28 categories were announced on Wednesday. Whoever wins the television award will be revealed at an open-air show in Cologne on September 16. The award ceremony, moderated by Barbara Schöneberger (47), can be seen on RTL on the same evening from 8.15 p.m. onwards. Last year there were prizes because of the pandemic, but no gala.
What is also remarkable about the 2020/2021 award is that the two entertainers Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf were nominated with two entries in the same category. You are competing with yourself, so to speak. In the “Best Infotainment” category, they compete with both “Joko & Klaas 15 minutes: Men’s Worlds” and “Joko & Klaas – Live: Care is # not self-evident” (both ProSieben). On March 31, the two moderators had their station show the everyday life of a nurse in real time. The result: eight hours of unprecedented reality television.
If you go to the productions with the most nominations, the beer brewer multi-part series “Oktoberfest 1900” (ARD) and the drama series “Para – Wir sind King” are the big favorites of this year’s television award. Both have five nominations each, including for the actors.
“Oktoberfest 1900” actor Mišel Matičević can hope for an award as “Best Actor”, Soma Pysall from “Para – Wir sind King” for the award for “Best Actress”. The series by TNT comes from the creators of the successful “4 Blocks” and is about four friends who grew up in rough Berlin Wedding. They get into the drug business more by chance.
The German Television Prize has been awarded for outstanding television performance since 1999. It is donated by RTL, ZDF, Sat.1, ARD and Deutsche Telekom. The jury includes actress and producer Maria Furtwängler (54).
“Despite the pandemic-related restrictions in production, the jury saw a large variety of topics and materials in excellent implementation in all genres,” said the jury chairman Wolf Bauer, summarizing the selection process. “A remarkable achievement of the creative, which under the special circumstances of the year cannot be rated highly enough.” Dpa
