German TV Award / Best Music

This article lists the nominations and winners of the German Television Award in the Best Music category since its introduction in 1999. The winners will be determined in a secret vote by an independent jury.

History and records

The Best Music category was awarded from 1999 to 2009. In 2010, the award sponsors ( ARD , ZDF , RTL and Sat.1 ) announced that they wanted to reform the awarding of awards. Among other things, it stipulated that the category for composers would no longer be awarded. Among other things, the awarding of the German Television Prize should shift more to television formats / productions. From 2010 to 2014 the category was not awarded. After a further reform in 2015/2016, among other things, the category Best Music will be awarded again from 2016.

Each year, one winner is determined from three nominations. The first prize winner was Nikolaus Glowna for the crime film Auf der Jagd from the crime series Bella Block , which won the German Television Prize in 1999 . The last winners so far are Johnny Klimek and Tom Tykwer for Babylon Berlin , who were honored at the German Television Prize 2018 .

The following is a list of records from the most frequent nominees and winners in the Best Music category . The winners and nominees in the other categories are not counted.

statistics	composer	number	year
Most frequent award	Ulrich Reuter	2	2000, 2003
Most frequent nominations (* = victory)	Ulrich Reuter	4th	1999, 2000 , 2003 , 2009
Most frequent nomination without a win	Manu short	3	2003, 2007, 2017

Winners and nominees

After the nomination of the nominated composer (s), the film (s) and / or the series (s) for which he / she has been nominated follows in italics, and in brackets the associated TV station (s) that (s) on the Film or the series participates / participates or contributed / participated. The winners are highlighted in bold type first.

1990s

1999

Nikolaus Glowna for Bella Block : On the hunt ( ZDF )
- Ulrich Reuter for Die Bubi Scholz Story ( ARD / WDR )
- Dieter Schleip for bitter innocence ( arte ), your best years (ZDF / arte), crime scene: Schwarzer Advent (ARD)

2000s

2000

Dieter Schleip for Double Triangle (ZDF) and Rendezvous with the Devil ( ProSieben )
- Matthias Frey for waiting is death (ZDF / arte)
- Paul Vincent Gunia for double use ( RTL )

2001

Paul Vincent Gunia , Tito Larriva , Sema Mutlu and Derya Mutlu for The Scream of the Butterfly (ZDF / arte)
- Renaud Garcia-Fons for Sperling and the last taboo (arte / ZDF)
- Jörg Lemberg for crime scene: infant death (ARD / WDR)

2002

Andreas Schäfer for Forbidden Kisses (ZDF)
- Andreas Schilling for Kolle - A life for love and sex (ARD / WDR)
- Frank Wulff, Stefan Wulff and Hinrich Dageför for Save Your Skin! (ZDF)

2003

Dieter Schleip for The Lawyer and His Guest (ARD / SWR ), Himmelreich auf Erden (ZDF) and men little by little ( ProSieben )
- Manu Kurz for There's no such thing as impossible (ZDF)
- Irmin Schmidt for the Bloch film series (ARD / WDR / SWR)

2004

Oliver Biehler for My First Friend, Mother and I (ProSieben) and The Seventh Photo (ProSieben)
- Marcel Barsotti for The Doctor (ZDF) and The Return of the Father (ZDF)
- Enjott Schneider for Stauffenberg (ARD / SWR / WDR / rbb / ORF / RAI / RAI Bozen )

2005

Annette Focks for Bella Block : ... because they don't know what they are doing (ZDF), Das Gespenst von Canterville ( Sat.1 ), The Cherry Queen (ZDF / arte), Maria's Last Journey (ARD / BR ) and waves (ZDF / kind)
- Jo Barnikel and Stephan Wildfeuer for section 40 (RTL)
- Ralf Wienrich for Bella Block : The Freedom of Wolves (ZDF)

2006

Fabian Römer for Tatort: Drifting Snow (ARD / BR)
- Hans-Jürgen Buchner for Margarete Steiff (ARD / SWR / ORF / BR / RAI Bozen / arte)
- Dominic Roth for Störtebeker (ARD / WDR / BR / SWR / NDR / MDR / TV3 / ORF)

2007

Enjott Schneider for Die Flucht (ARD / BR / WDR / SWR / hr / arte) and Not all were murderers (ARD / SWR / BR)
- Manu Kurz for From the End of the Ice Age (ARD / NDR / arte)
- Ralf Wienrich for Bella Block: Blackout (ZDF) and The Secret in the Moor (ZDF)