Foundling price

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The Findling or Findlingspreis was a film award given to filmmakers for their directorial work. It was awarded at various national and international festivals by the Verband für Filmkommunikation , the association of cultural cinemas and film clubs in East Germany. Well over a hundred filmmakers received this award.

history

The prize was first awarded in 1982 on the initiative of the GDR film clubs at various East German film festivals. After German reunification , the Film Communication Association, the umbrella organization for cultural cinemas and film clubs, was founded and has been awarding the prize ever since. Most recently it was exclusively represented by the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Regional Association for Film Communication.

Specific

What was special about the Findlings Award was that its endowment was also linked to a tour of the award-winning film with the winner to the state's theaters. During the usually two-week tour, the film was shown and the work of the filmmakers was presented combined with moderated film discussions with the director, and in some cases with other film participants such as actors or producers.

The aim of the prize was to bring filmmakers, cinemas and audiences into conversation with one another. According to the statutes, the prize was understood as "moral and ideal recognition of works that force you to think and look in a special way, whose creators do not make it easy for themselves and the viewer and which take up topics worth considering and finding in a recognizable and unspectacular design are worth ". At times, at festivals such as Schwerin and Neubrandenburg, there were only endowed boulder awards. All costs were borne by the Association for Film Communication, the association of cultural cinemas and film clubs.

The prize itself consisted of a set of boulders and a plaque and was designed by the Güstrow sculptor Peter Lewandowski.

Festivals

During the GDR era, the prize was awarded at the following festivals:

After the German reunification, the prize was awarded at the following festivals:

In 2015 the prize was awarded abroad for the first time:

Further awards

In addition, the boulder was awarded out of sequence to the following personalities or institutions:

  • 1985: For the entire work: DEFA studio for animation
  • 1986: For all of Kurt Maetzig's 75th birthday
  • 1986: For the district communities of film clubs Halle, Schwerin and Cottbus
  • 1987: For the entire oeuvre on the occasion of Fyodor Chitruk's 70th birthday

Excellent filmmakers (selection)

literature

  • Wieland Becker and Volker Petzold : Tarkowski meets King Kong - history of the film club movement in the GDR . VISTAS, Berlin 2001.
  • Cornelia Jarisch u. a .: Filmclub-Kurier I / 96 . Ed .: Association of Film Communication e. V. Berlin 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.defa-stiftung.de/1
  2. ↑ http://www.dokumentart.info/fileadmin/user_upload/Archiv/Preise_2012_.pdf
  3. ^ Wieland Becker and Volker Petzold: Tarkowski meets King Kong - History of the film club movement in the GDR. VISTAS, Berlin 2001, page 438
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neues-deutschland.de
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimme-institut.de
  6. ↑ http://www.dokumentart.info/fileadmin/user_upload/Archiv/Preise_2013.pdf
  7. ↑ http://www.denkmalfilm.tv/index.php?page=award