The German Television Award will return to the screen next year as a big Saturday night show. Responsible for this is RTL, who is also to ensure a reorientation of the gala and will broadcast the show live on June 6, 2020 from Cologne. In the following three years, the gala will be broadcast on television, then on ARD, ZDF and Sat1.
As formerly the show should take place again in the Cologne Coloneum, a studio center in the less glamorous district Ossendorf. Nearby, there is a jail flanked by watchtowers, a Swedish furniture store and residual waste. The celebrities arriving at the television price in limousines in festive evening wear always made a strange contrast.
However, a spokeswoman stressed that the future concept will be completely new. The award ceremony will be a "great dynamic, emotionally charged staging" and as such will not be comparable to the previous galas in the Coloneum. ,
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German Television Award: These are the winnersThe German Television Prize has been awarded by the major TV providers since 1999 - founders are the directors or managing directors of ARD, ZDF, RTL and Sat.1. The story of the award is changeable: The ratings at the gala were often weak, and there was also often criticism, for example, about the perceived as boring style and the ever-increasing number of price categories. Significantly, the most famous moment of the television award came in 2008, when literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920-2013) declined the trophy intended for him with the words: "I do not accept this prize, I did not know what awaited me here!"
In 2014, the television prize was awarded for the last time in its old form in the Coloneum. In 2015, the event was canceled, after which it was continued as an industry meeting in a slimmed down form in Dusseldorf.
Although this year was also retransmitted, but rather modest on the Internet. Later there was a recording on television, the gala had Barbara Schöneberger and Steffen Hallaschka moderated.
So now it's time for a realignment. "As the most important award for outstanding achievements on German television, the German Television Award impressively shows how exciting, creative and successful our medium is," said Stephan Schäfer, Managing Director Content & Brands of Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland, on Tuesday.
The nominees and winners would also be selected by an independent jury next year. Chairman of the round of 14 experts, as in the previous year, the producer Wolf Bauer. The observation period is from 1 January 2019 to 30 April 2020.