Reinhold Schünzel Prize
The Reinhold Schünzel Prize is an honorary prize that has been awarded since 2004 at the opening of Cinefest - International Festival of German Film Heritage .
The award is named after the actor and film director Reinhold Schünzel , who was born in Hamburg, and honors services for the care, preservation and dissemination of the German film heritage . The winners are selected by an international jury.
Award winners
- 2004 Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart (long-time film program manager at the Goethe-Haus New York )
- 2005 Manfred Klaue (former director of the State Film Archive of the GDR and long-time president of the FIAF , the international association of film archives)
- 2006 Vittorio Martinelli (Italian film historian)
- 2007 Gero Gandert (film historian, Berlin)
- 2008 Vladimír Opěla (former director of the NFA - Národní filmový archiv, Prague)
- 2009 Volker Baer (film journalist, Berlin)
- 2010 Heide Schlüpmann (film scholar, Frankfurt)
- 2011 Barton Byg (Founder of the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- 2012 Bernard Eisenschitz (French film historian, Paris)
- 2013 Wolfram Schütte (film journalist, Frankfurt)
- 2014 Horst Claus (film historian, Bristol)
- 2015 Vera Gyürey (former director of the Hungarian Film Archive, Budapest)
- 2016 Heike Klapdor (literary and film scholar, Berlin)
- 2017 Lenny Borger (film historian and curator, Paris)
- 2018 Jan-Christopher Horak (film historian and archivist, UCLA, Los Angeles)
- 2019 Giovanni Spagnoletti (film historian and festival director, Rome)