Adolf Grimme Awards
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The Adolf Grimme Award (since 2010: Grimme Award) is a television award and one of the most prestigious awards for German television, which is named after the first general director of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme (1889–1963). It is also called the "German TV Oscar".
The awards ceremony takes place annually at Theater Marl and is hosted by the Adolf-Grimme-Institut. Since 1964, it awards productions "that use the specific possibilities of the medium television in an extraordinary manner and at the same time can serve as examples regarding content and method". The award was endowed by the German Community College association.
One of the first awards winner was Gern Oelschlegel in 1964. He awarded the price for his first TV – movie “Special Leave” (German:”Sonderurlaub”), which is about a failed escape from the GDR.
Beside the Grimme Award, the institute also awards the Grimme Online Award and the German Radio Award.
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The awards ceremony takes place annually at Theater Marl and is hosted by the Adolf-Grimme-Institut. Since 1964, it awards productions "that use the specific possibilities of the medium television in an extraordinary manner and at the same time can serve as examples regarding content and method". The award was endowed by the German Community College association.
One of the first awards winner was Gern Oelschlegel in 1964. He awarded the price for his first TV – movie “Special Leave” (German:”Sonderurlaub”), which is about a failed escape from the GDR.
Beside the Grimme Award, the institute also awards the Grimme Online Award and the German Radio Award.
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- Audience Award Marler Gruppe
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- Mercedes-Benz Grant
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