In Berlin, Europe’s renowned media prize for Integration and cultural diversity. The Gala on 30. Jubilee asked the question of how to deal with Fake News, propaganda, and hate on the net and elsewhere.
In 2017, the CIVIS media prize 30 celebrated. Birthday. With: prize winners and judges
Cultural diversity, tolerance and human dignity in the image and sound: the CIVIS media prize for Migration, Integration and cultural diversity each year to outstanding productions with prices. This year, the price was 30. Time awarded on a festive TV Gala in the world hall of the foreign office in Berlin. In all, 13 European Radio, Film, television, and online programs were honored. Including productions by the broadcasters ARD, BR, deutschlandradio, France Televisions, HR, MDR, NDR, RAI 3, SRF, WDR and the Hamburg Media School.
“Price calls for differentiation and understanding”
Integration Minister Aydan Özoğuz emphasised in her speech that the ceremony of the CIVIS media prize is still just as important as at the time of its founding 30 years ago. “The price of calls for the differentiation and understanding”. Germany need also in the year 2017, urgently, the Minister of state. Like a red thread, a question moved by the event: How can journalism and society to deal with hate and incitement in the net and on the street? Roger de Weck, Director General of Swiss Radio and television (SRG) noted that good journalism is needed more than ever to be an anchor in a time of “democracy and the people” would be afflicted – especially in Europe.
Also at the Gala: integration Minister Aydan Özoguz
Some of the 13 awards, impressed the audience particularly: The “CIVIS cinema prize” this year as audience award to the feature film drama “Before the dawn”. Director Stefan Arndt depicts the escape of the Jewish writer Stefan Zweig from the Nazis. An escape that gets in the face of today’s Escape fates sad actuality.
The winner of the “European Young CIVIS Media Prize” young talent Matthias Koßmehl of the Hamburg Media School. His light-hearted short film “Different Bayern” shows a professional football player from Ghana, the lands instead of Bayern Munich in a Bavarian Provinzfußallclub – integration-clutter and Smile.
Prices in the categories of Film, television, Radio and Online
The “CIVIS television prize in the Magazine” received Ben Bolz and Johannes Edelhoff for the ARD contribution in the policy-the magazine PANORAMA “Alternative for the politics: emotions instead of facts.” Therein, the authors draw the strategies populists successfully on votes. The Italian Film production of “Out of sight…” looks disturbingly real images on the Refugee destinies in front of the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, and also addresses the suffering of the helpers, who are delivered the images of horror.
The French production “don’t Give me on” France 2 won the television award in the field of entertainment. Viewers accompany the radicalisation of a young woman who wants to draw in the Jihad and the mother is stopped.
Building bridges between cultures: the issue of the CIVIS prize-giving ceremony is also in the 30-year high currently.
Radio journalist Anna Osius won the CIVIS radio prize for her Short documentary “life under the IS”, in which she documented the fate of families in the refugee camps, to poignant manner. Your message to the audience: “If it is in the regions as a reporter on the road, then you will be above all: be humble,” said the ARD-journalist in her acceptance speech. “We should never forget that we Germans, in spite of all the problems relatively well“.
The CIVIS media prize in the category of Web video went to author Sylvia Griss, the continued Syrian refugee and actor Ramo in explainer videos. Ramo asks “Should I go back to Syria?”, to explain to the users, then clearly, as complex, dangerous and hopeless the situation in Syria. All of which is self-deprecating, sense of humour ruled and informative, therefore, to the Jury.
DW-authors nominated and awarded
The Team of the DW (left to right): Sime Nedevski, Klaus Dahmann, Rayna Breuer and Michael Karhausen
Also price is a production of author Tom Mustroph, reported regularly to the Deutsche Welle sports team was crowned. He received the CIVIS special price for “football and Integration” for the ARD-Radio-Feature “to the last breath”. In it, the author reported on the radicalization of the Fankulturen in the German and Italian football.
In the category “websites” was the “border experience – the Balkan nominated route”, a project from the house of the German waves. In the Multimedia Special under the User takes a trip along the closed land route for refugees to Europe. Under the leadership of the DW-authors Rayna Breuer, Klaus Dahmann and Sime Nedevski, a group of seven young journalists researched two weeks ago at the Serbian-Hungarian and the Macedonian-Greek border, to make the calls for the User experience.
Steinmeier and Tajani acquisitions patronage
Federal President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani, took over the patronage for this year’s CIVIS-media competition. Advertised 783 programmes from 24 EU countries and Switzerland. Willy Steul, Director of deutschlandradio stressed at the end of the event: “the encounter with The Other and the Stranger can also enrich it.” If the CIVIS media prize sharpness of this consciousness in the future, then he remains indispensable.