Off for the Golden Camera. Next year, the ZDF annual prize gala will be celebrated for the last time. The then 55th ceremony is expected to be broadcast on March 21st. Thomas Gottschalk is supposed to moderate the show as well.
The viewing habits of the audience would have changed over the decades, said Jochen Beckmann, Managing Director of Funke magazines ("Hörzu"), to the TV gala. "It's time to explore new options for the Golden Camera brand that we firmly believe in. With the YouTube Golden Camera Digital Award, we already have a format that is geared towards the advancing digitization of media usage," said Beckmann ,
The Golden Camera is broadcast since 1994 on ZDF as a TV gala. It has been the television and film award since 1966. It was founded by the television magazine "Hörzu", which belonged to Springer-Verlag until 2014 and today belongs to the Funke media group.
Most recently, the show was repeatedly criticized. For example, in 2017, moderators Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf managed to bring a doppelganger of American actor Ryan Gosling to the gala to receive the award for the best international film "La La Land".