CIVIS 2013
Prize winner European CIVIS Television Prize
Category Magazine - short programmes up to ten minutes
Selected was: Panorama 3: Foreigners out! Smear campaign against home for refugees (NDR)
24 refugees from Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey move into a newly opened home in Wolgast North. They are the first of 200. The refugees are met with rejection, social envy and open hate from people in the neighbourhood. Local residents predict that “the block will burn”. The responsible district administration defends its decision to accommodate the refugees in a social “hot-spot”. Parallels are drawn to the incidents in Rostock-Lichtenhagen: there 20 years ago a right-wing mob threw incendiary devices at a home for applicants for political asylum.
Report
Authors: Djamila Benkhelouf, Anna Orth, Anne Ruprecht
Editors: Maike Rudolph, Jochen Becker
CIVIS 2013
Prize winner European CIVIS Television Prize
Category Information (non-fiction)
Selected was: die story: Cemetery of the illegal (WDR)
No border fence can hold back migration. They come from Senegal, from Nigeria or from Ghana, from Central Asia or North Africa. They are looking for a better life in Europe. Many of them drown in the attempt to cross the River Evros on the Turkish-Greek border. 400 of them are buried on a hill near the border. A small Muslim community in Greece looks after the dead: they are not only Muslims. The film shows the different perspectives of the emigrants, the European border guards (FRONTEX) and the residents of the border villages.
Documentation
Author: Andreas Morell
Editor: Norbert Hahn
CIVIS 2013
Prize winner European CIVIS Television Prize
Category Entertainment (fiction)
Selected was: Shameless (TVP)
For the 18-year-old Tadek his older sister Anka is the great love of his life. Anka lives unhappily with a local Neo-Nazi. She fails to reject the intimate approaches of her brother and allows the incestuous relationship. Irmina, a young, uncompromising Romany girl seeks to attract the attention of Tadek. Initially, he ignores it. When the Romanies are attacked by the Neo-Nazis, events become increasingly dramatic. "Shameless" examines the tendency to judge others on the basis of one’s own ideas and principles. The film makes a plea for tolerance.
Television film
Author: Grzegorz Loszewski
Editor: Carmen Szwec
Director: Filip Marczewski
CIVIS 2013
Prize winner German CIVIS Media Prize
Category Information (non-fiction)
Selected was: Panorama: From baby of the family to terrorist (NDR)
The parents of the Zwickau terrorist Uwe Böhnhardt speak for the first time on television about their son. The documentary shows how the perpetrators have developed their right-wing ideas and later their right-wing terror from everyday life. “I think about the victims every day, always”, says the mother, Brigitte Böhnhardt and she is “truly infinitely sorry”. How could it have happened? How can one forgive one’s own child, who went underground for years and was involved in ten murders. A multi-dimensional presentation of the murder cases and the biographical backgrounds of the terror trio.
Documentation
Authors: John Goetz, Djamila Benkhelouf, Anke Hunold, Anna Orth
Editors: Dietmar Schiffermüller, Volker Steinhoff, Britta von der Heide, Stephan Wels
CIVIS 2013
Prize winner German CIVIS Media Prize
Category Information (non-fiction)
Selected was: Arte Themenabend: The terror trio – why the authorities failed (MDR/ARTE)
Over a period of 14 years, the right-wing extremist terror cell ”National Socialist Underground” was able to rob, explode bombs and murder in Germany without being discovered. The film tells the story of a state affair in which radical right-wing murderers were able to kill nine people with foreign roots and a policewoman – while surrounded by liaison officers and informers of almost all the German secret services. It is all about the complete failure of the German security services. How it happened, was discovered by several parliamentary commissions of inquiry: they met with massive resistance, silence, playing down.
Documentation
Authors: Inga Klees, Marcus Weller
Editors: Jörg Wildermuth, Burkhard Kunst
CIVIS 2013
Prize winner German CIVIS Media Prize
Category Entertainment (fiction)
Selected was: The scene of the crime cleaner: Schotty’s battle (NDR)
With his disinfectants, scrubbing brush and cleaning cloths, Schotty in his white overalls, is usually the last one to arrive when a corpse has been found, after the police and the undertakers. Schotty scrubs away whatever is left after a bloody incident. After an accident in a clubhouse he should clean away the blood of the deceased. Unsuspectingly Schotty opens the door to a back room and suddenly finds himself in a parallel world full of NS memorabilia. Schotty knows how to successfully stand up to the political views of the club chairman.
Serie
Author: Mizzi Meyer
Editors: Dr. Bernhard Gleim, Adrian Meiling
Director: Arne Feldhusen
CIVIS 2013
Prize winner European CIVIS Radio Prize
Category: long programmes (longer than 6 minutes)
Selected was:
Privat Radio: Farid Vatanparast and his liking for "Liebesstützen" (WDR 5)
As a professional boxer, Farid Vatanparast found out how to learn from defeats. The German-Iranian came to Germany aged 12 and successfully learned to box. A car accident ended his dream of a professional boxing career. But he did not give up. The graduate in business studies completed his doctorate in educational science and built up a boxing department in Münster in which, in particular, underprivileged youngsters are given a chance. Anyone who learns at the school and improves his grades, may take part in the training. Anyone who does not learn does push-ups (in German “Liegestützen”, here referred to as “Liebestützen” or “love supports”).
Feature
Authors: Andrea Kath, Martina Meißner
Editor: Andrea Kath, Martina Meißner Thomas Nachtigall
Director: Matthias Kapohl
CIVIS 2013
Prize winner European CIVIS Radio Prize
Category: short programmes (up to 6 minutes)
Selected was: Echo der Zeit: Meschugge Party – Jewish Life in Berlin (SRF 1, CH)
At the end of August 2012, a rabbi is beaten up by two young racialists in Berlin. For months there has been a heated debate about the circumcision of boys. Both of these things fill Jews in Germany with indignation and cause them to feel insecure. Simultaneously, for many young Jews from Israel Berlin is “the place to be”. The topical short report is set in the Berlin scene restaurant ”The Kosher Classroom”. Members of the Jewish community report on their feeling about life in Berlin and how it is negatively affected by anti-Semitic violence and debates about circumcision.
Report
Author: Casper Selg
Editor: Judith Huber
CIVIS 2013
Prize winner European CIVIS Online Media Prize
Selected was: RAPutation-casting.tv (UFA Film & TV Produktion)
RAPutation aims to introduce young people between 14 and 23 years of age, with low levels of education who are disenchanted with politics, to political themes and to involve them in the social discourse. Germany's first online rap casting show focuses on youthful fears and frustrations with creative Social Media elements and social-critical rap. RAPutation demands a political stand: young people rap on the Internet about racism and injustice. The search is on for the best political rapper (m/f).
Webpage
Prize winners: Anna Mauersberger, Solmaz Sohrabi, Prof. Dr. Susanne Stürmer
CIVIS 2013
Prize winner European Young CIVIS Media Prize
Selected was: Bear me (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)
"Bear me" is an amusing animated film about love, everyday life and everything that is part of a relationship from an idealistic point of view. One day Lilly discovers a bear waiting at the bus stop and takes it home with her. At the beginning both are inseparable, but there are some discrepancies little by little in her relation. Lilly does not further take these into account. Whether fair-haired or brown, whether great or small and why the bear should be an exception? It is only a little different.
Animated short film
Authors: Kasia Wilk, Anna Matacz
Examining commission: Marianne Gassner, Thomas Hägele
