Marburg Camera Prize

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The Marburg Camera Prize is an award given in 2000 by the Philipps University of Marburg and the City of Marburg for nationally and internationally outstanding image design in film and television.

Goal setting

The purpose and goal is to honor the all too often overlooked achievements of important cameramen and camerawomen once a year . The Marburg Camera Prize aims to counteract the “misunderstanding and overlook of the camera performance”. It is intended to draw attention to the fundamental contribution made by film camera art. It serves to highlight camera work as an essential area of ​​film and image culture. The prize can be awarded for the entire work or it can honor the outstanding work of as yet unknown cameramen. This award can be given for the field of feature film as well as for documentary or experimental films.

The Marburg Camera Prize was awarded for the first time on March 2, 2001 during the 3rd Marburg Camera Talks, which are organized annually by the Media Studies Department at Philipps University and the German Cinematography Association . The initiator of the event was and is the Marburg media scientist Karl Prümm .

Structures

The endowment of the camera prize in the amount of 5,000 euros is financed by the city of Marburg and also sponsored in the framework organization by ARRI Arnold & Richter Cine Technik and the Sparkasse Marburg-Biedenkopf.

An advisory board made up of a representative of Marburg Media Studies, the City of Marburg Culture Service, the Marburger Kinobetriebe, the Bundesverband Kamera e. V. as well as renowned film critics . The first prize winner is announced in autumn of the previous year. The ceremony for the handover takes place during the “camera talks” in March in the old auditorium of the Philipps University of Marburg.

Award winners

The prize has been awarded 19 times so far, including three times to a woman (as of 2019).

year Prize winner country
2001 Raoul Coutard France
2002 Frank Griebe Germany
2003 Robby Muller Netherlands
2004 Sławomir Idziak Poland
2005 Walter Lassally United Kingdom / Germany
2006 Judith Kaufmann Germany
2007 Eduardo Serra Portugal / France
2008 Renato Berta Switzerland
2009 Wolfgang Thaler Austria
2010 Jost Vacano Germany
2011 Anthony Dod Mantle United Kingdom
2012 Agnes Godard France
2013 Reinhold Vorneider Germany
2014 Paweł Edelman Poland
2015 Edward Lachman United States
2016 Jürgen Juerges Germany
2017 Luca Bigazzi Italy
2018 Hélène Louvart France
2019 Thomas Mauch Germany
2020 Philippe Rousselot France

literature

  • Karl Prümm, Silke Bierhoff, Matthias Körnich (eds.): Camera styles in the current film. Reports and analysis . Schüren , Marburg 1999, ISBN 3-89472-311-4
  • Michael Neubauer, Karl Prümm, Alexandra Schwarz (eds.): Uncomfortable pictures. The black and white photography of the cameraman Heinz Pehlke . Schüren, Marburg 2002, ISBN 3-89472-330-0
  • Karl Prümm, Michael Neubauer, Peter Riedel (eds.): Raoul Coutard - cameraman of modernity . Schüren, Marburg 2004, ISBN 3-89472-355-6
  • Gunnar Bolsinger, Michael Neubauer, Karl Prümm, Peter Riedel (eds.): The cameraman Frank Griebe - Tom Tykwer's eye . Schüren, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-89472-388-2
  • Rolf Coulanges, Michael Neubauer, Karl Prümm, Peter Riedel (eds.): The lyrical canvas. The visual art of the cameraman Robby Müller . Schüren, Marburg 2006, ISBN 3-89472-404-8
  • Andreas Kirchner, Michael Neubauer, Karl Prümm, Peter Riedel (eds.): An architect of sensuality - the color worlds of the cameraman Slawomir Idziak . Schüren, Marburg 2007, ISBN 3-89472-409-9
  • Gunnar Bolsinger, Andreas Kirchner, Michael Neubauer, Karl Prümm (eds.): New images of the real. The cameraman Walter Lassally . Schüren, Marburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89472-410-8
  • Bernd Giesemann, Andreas Kirchner, Michael Neubauer, Karl Prümm (eds.): Proximity and empathy. The imagery of the camerawoman Judith Kaufmann . Schüren, Marburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89472-829-8

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