Heinrich Greif Prize
The Heinrich Greif Prize was a film and television prize in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It was created on May 17, 1951 on the occasion of the license for the production of films granted five years earlier by the Soviet military administration in order to honor "outstanding achievements in the socialist-realistic film and television art of the GDR". This state award was initially only given for collective performance and from 1959 also for individual performance. It was named after Heinrich Greif in memory of the anti-fascist film artist and was awarded in three classes consisting of a monetary bonus of 10,000 marks (third class), 15,000 marks (second class) and 20,000 marks (first class).
The medal, which was made of silver until 1973 and has a diameter of 30 millimeters, shows Griffin's head in side view on the obverse. The award was usually made on March 11th - Heinrich Greif's birthday - by the Minister of Culture.
The first award was made on May 25, 1951 by the then Deputy Prime Minister Hans Loch at the ceremony for the DEFA anniversary in the Berlin State Opera . The first class award went to the collective responsible for the production of the weekly cinema newsreel Der Augenzeuge , consisting of Günther Klein (editor-in-chief), Günter Althaus (production manager), Max Jaap (director), Ella Ensink (editor), Heinrich Reusch (sound engineer) , Erich Nitzschmann , Ewald Krause, Harry Bremer, Fritz Rudolph (cameramen) and Kurt Schwabe (head lighting technician). The second class prize was awarded to the collective of the documentary The Way Up , consisting of Andrew Thorndike (director), Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler (author) and Karl Gass (director). The price III. Klasse was awarded to Fritz Wünsch (director), Erich Aurich (animation cameraman), Jürgen Schweinitz (cameraman) and Kurt Mahnke (animator) for the excellent design of popular science short films . The last award ceremony took place in 1989.
Award winners (selection)
- 1955: Günther Simon (actor)
- 1956: Hans-Hendrik Wehding (composer)
- 1958: Annelie Thorndike and Andrew Thorndike (documentary filmmakers) for the Teuton Sword Company
- 1959: Heiner Carow (director)
- 1960: Martin Hellberg (director, actor)
- 1961: Frank Beyer (director)
- 1962: Manfred Krug (actor)
- 1964: Herbert Köfer (actor)
- 1966: Günther Rücker (director, playwright)
- 1966: Job von Witzleben (NVA colonel)
- 1967: Heiner Carow (director)
- 1969: Wassili Borissowitsch Liwanow (director, author)
- 1971: Lothar Warneke (director) for Dr. med. Summer II
- 1971: Ulrich Plenzdorf (screenwriter, dramaturge)
- 1971: Lothar Warneke (director) for The Disturbance
- 1973: Kurt Jung-Alsen (director)
- 1978: Günter Reisch (director, screenwriter)
- 1983: Helga Schubert (writer, psychologist)
- 1984: Frank Beyer , Wolfgang Kohlhaase and Sylvester Groth as a collective for The Stay
- 1985: Evelyn Carow (editor), Doris Borkmann (assistant director) and Hans Poppe (production designer)
literature
- Dirk Hubrich: Award figures for state GDR awards. Part 1: Heinrich Greif Prize . In: Orders and Medals. The magazine for friends of phaleristics, publisher: German Society for Ordenskunde , issue 121, 21st year, Gäufelden 2019. ISSN 1438-3772.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ordinance on the Creation of the Heinrich Greif Prize for Outstanding Achievements in German Film Art of May 17, 1951 (Journal of Laws p. 482)
- ^ New Germany of November 13, 1958, p. 2
- ↑ Martin Hellberg: With sharp optics . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 318 .