Festival of German Films

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Logo of the festival 2018

The Festival of German Films Ludwigshafen am Rhein took place for the first time in 2005 on the Ludwigshafen Parkinsel in two cinema tents. In 2018 there was a third cinema tent for the first time, where contributions from the Children's Film Festival and the Salon - International Film series were shown. The 15th edition will take place from August 21 to September 8, 2019.

history

The festival was made possible by the “Future Initiative for the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region” and with the support of BASF AG . In the first year, the German Film Festival had around 10,000 visitors. With its “beach talks” it became a meeting place for young German directors, producers, distributors and actors. The result of this is the “Ludwigshafen Position” - from intensive discussions between the directors and producers present on the topic “What does German film need?”, A joint resolution emerged that was signed in 2005 by 22 film directors, actors and producers. It called for a primarily artistic orientation in German film.

In the second year, the German Film Festival had 17,000 visitors. A summer academy took place for the first time. It emerged from last year's beach talks. A master school where German filmmakers could exchange ideas. The Sparkasse Vorderpfalz and the GAG ​​Ludwigshafen participated in the financing of the festival for the first time. There were 20,000 visitors in 2007.

For the first time, the city of Ludwigshafen, together with the previous sponsors, ensured the festival's continued existence: the municipal council approved the mayor Eva Lohse's request for co-financing with a large majority . From 2008 the Ludwigshafen City Clinic also sponsored the festival.

In the fifth year, the number of visitors tripled: In 2009, over 30,000 visitors came to Parkinsel. Visitors were among others Hannelore Elsner , who receives the “Prize for Dramatic Art”, Senta Berger , who presented her new film and Werner Schroeter . This was one of his last appearances, because Werner Schroeter died in April 2010.

Since 2011, the Filmkunstpreis has not only been given equal rights to pure cinema productions and mixed cinema-TV productions, but also to pure television productions in Germany. In 2010 Moritz Bleibtreu received the “Prize for Dramatic Art”. In the seventh year, 39,000 visitors came and TWL joined as a new sponsor.

The 8th festival reached 50,000 moviegoers in 2012. The film art award went to Für Elise by Wolfgang Dinslage . The “Prize for Acting Art” went to Otto Sander and Sandra Hüller .

On the red carpet of the Jubilee Festival 2014 (from left to right Golo Euler , Lucie Heinze , program manager Daniela Kötz, Ulrich Matthes , festival director Michael Kötz , Ulrich Tukur , Barbara Philipp and Anatole Taubman )

With around 64,000 spectators, the 9th festival achieved a further increase in visitor numbers in 2013. Due to the flooding of the Rhine at the end of May / beginning of June 2013 , the festival site was temporarily relocated to a wasteland at Luitpoldhafen, opposite the Parkinsel. The demonstrations on June 22nd had to be canceled for security reasons due to a major fire in a warehouse in the immediate vicinity.

In the 10th edition, the festival awarded the "Ludwigshafen am Rhein Media Culture Prize" for the first time in 2014, honoring a television editorial team that is primarily responsible for a particularly successful new television film production (television play) that is exemplary for maintaining a media culture in Germany and who is concerned with quality television in the field of television games, regardless of audience ratings.

In 2016, 112,000 tickets were sold compared to 88,000 in the previous year. Approx. 500 trade visitors were present. 245 screenings and 90 film discussions were presented.

In 2017, the festival took place for the first time in late summer, from August 30th to September 17th, to avoid the recurring flooding of the park island. 41 directors, 88 producers and other industry representatives as well as 62 actors were guests with over 60 new films. Since spring, the festival has also fully integrated its office in Ludwigshafen and the name of the city into its new logo. More than 100,000 visitors came again to see films for the first time in an open-air cinema directly on the banks of the Rhine.

  • Logo of the Festival of German Films

  • Crowds of visitors in 2014

  • View of the tent landscape

  • Visitors to the 2014 festival enjoy the atmosphere of the Rhine

  • The FDDF at an alternative location due to the flood damage in 2013

Festival management

Prices

  • Ludwigshafen Film Art Prize - endowed with 30,000 euros since 2019 (50,000 euros until 2017, 20,000 euros in 2018). It is awarded to the “best German film” by an expert jury. The “aesthetic quality” is decisive, regardless of whether it is a cinema or television production. 10,000 euros each go to the director, to the producer and to the German film distributor, which brings the film to the cinema. The prize money is awarded without any conditions. An independent, annually newly appointed jury of recognized personalities in German film awards the prize. Two other films received an honorable mention, the “Ludwigshafen Awards”.
  • Rheingold - The Ludwigshafen Audience Award - equivalent to the Ludwigshafen Film Art Award and has been endowed with the same amount under the name Rheingold since 2018 (€ 10,000 until 2017). 10,000 euros each go to the director, the producer and 10,000 euros to the German film distributor, which brings the film to the cinema. The prize money is awarded without any conditions. The audience votes on the winner of the newer films in the program (rating per performance in relation to the number per performance).
  • Prize for the art of acting - Prize to "outstanding personalities in the art of acting", awarded since 2005.
  • Author's Award Ludwigshafen - Award for a screenwriter who has presented an “outstanding work in the field of film and television in Germany”, awarded for the first time in 2013.
  • Director's Award Ludwigshafen - Award for a director who has presented an “outstanding film work”, awarded for the first time in 2018.
  • Media Culture Prize - Prize for a "particularly successful cinematically" pure television film that was made without a cinema participation. It is awarded by a "renowned personality from the film and television world" as a single juror.
  • The Golden Nile Children's Film Award - awarded since 2014. The jury consists of children between the ages of eight and twelve as well as editors from the Rheinpfalz and the curator Rolf-Rüdiger Hamacher.

Award winners

Ludwigshafen Film Art Prize

Acting Award

Rheingold - Ludwigshafen Audience Award

Ludwigshafen Authors' Prize

Media culture award

  • Prize winners 2017:
    • Lucia Keuter (WDR)
  • Prize winners 2018:
    • Frankfurt, December 17 ( Petra K. Wagner / TV game editor of the Hessischer Rundfunk)

The golden Nile

Director's award Ludwigshafen

Web links

Commons : Festival of German Films  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ludwigshafen Film Festival: Iris Berben receives award for acting . Article dated July 10, 2018, accessed July 10, 2018.
  2. ↑ Stefan Otto: The 15th Festival of German Films begins in five weeks. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , July 17, 2019, accessed on the same day.
  3. ↑ Film festival in the dry! , accessed June 6, 2013.
  4. ↑ Ludwigshafen: Fire brigade brings major fire under control. on: Spiegel Online . June 23, 2013.
  5. ^ History. Festival of German Films, accessed on July 9, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b Ludwigshafen Prize goes to two films . Article dated September 16, 2017, accessed September 16, 2017.
  7. ↑ The Film Art Prize 2018 of the 14th FESTIVAL OF THE GERMAN FILM LUDWIGSHAFEN AM RHEIN goes to "Murot and the marmot" by Dietrich Brüggemann . Article dated September 8, 2018, accessed September 9, 2018.
  8. ↑ a b c The Prize Winners 2019 - Festival of German Films Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Murot- "Tatort" wins film award in Ludwigshafen . Article dated September 8, 2018, accessed September 9, 2018.
  10. ↑ Golden Nile. (No longer available online.) Festival of German Films, archived from the original on July 24, 2017 ; Retrieved July 19, 2017 .