Heiner Carow Prize

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The Heiner Carow Prize of the DEFA Foundation has been awarded since 2013 as part of the Berlin International Film Festival .

History of the price

The DEFA Foundation has been awarding the Heiner Carow Prize since 2013 to a German feature, documentary or essay film from the Berlin International Film Festival . The prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, is dedicated to the director Heiner Carow (1929–1997). Carow made films at DEFA such as The Legend of Paul and Paula (1972), Until Death Do You Part (1979) or Coming Out (1989). Until 2019, the prize was awarded in the Panorama section . With the new Berlinale directors under Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek , the prize for the 70th Berlinale in 2020 moved to the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section .

The jury for the award consists of three changing members. Well-known jury members were Karim Aïnouz (2013), Jan Krüger and Peter Welz (both 2014), Matthias Freihof (2015), Dirk Kummer (2016), Peter Ziesche (2017), Christian Steyer and Helene Hegemann (both 2018), Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss (2019) and Annekatrin Hendel (2020).

The award ceremony will take place in the former DEFA premiere cinema in Berlin's Kino International . Since 2017, the Heiner Carow Prize has been the only barrier-free award ceremony at the Berlinale - with sign language translation , written interpretation and film screening with audio description .

Award winners

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heiner Carow Prize. DEFA Foundation, accessed on February 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Making cinema films tangible for blind people. DEFA Foundation, accessed on February 9, 2020 .