German script award

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The German Screenplay Prize has been awarded by the Minister of State for Culture since 1988 .

Every year up to three unfilmed feature film scripts are nominated for the German Script Award.

The award is linked to the presentation of the Lola statuette of the German Film Prize and a prize of 10,000 euros. A further 20,000 euros can be made available as funding for the further development of the script. The nomination for the prize is worth 5,000 euros.

The prize is awarded exclusively to scripts whose filming had not yet begun at the time of the jury meeting. Scripts can only be proposed for nomination by the film funding agencies and the Association of German Scriptwriters as well as VeDRA and VDB.

development

The German Screenplay Prize arose from talks between the Working Group of Screenwriters (predecessor of the Association of German Screenwriters VDD ) and the Federal Ministry of the Interior . The declared aim is to underline the importance of the professional screenwriter for the creation of attractive films and to offer an incentive for screenwriters.

In the years from 2001 to 2004, the German screenplay award (unfilmed) was temporarily combined with the German film award for the best screenplay.

At the beginning, the award was explicitly only given to authors who did not direct the film . Since 1995, however, scripts in which the director is a co-writer have also been taken into account.

The award ceremony has been held for several years as part of the Berlinale reception of the Association of German Screenwriters.

List of previous winners

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. www.bundesregierung.de
  2. German Screenplay Prize for Stefan Sarazin and Peter Keller ( Memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ German Script Award 2016 for "Sayonara Rüdesheim". In: deutschlandradiokultur.de. Deutschlandradio Kultur , February 12, 2016, accessed on February 12, 2016
  4. German Screenplay Award 2017: Most important award for outstanding screenplays awarded . Press release from February 10, 2017, accessed on December 19, 2017.