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"Mama, this is for you": Markus Lanz sent greetings to South Tyrol
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Henning Kaiser / dpa
The quiz show "Who is stealing the show from me?" With presenter Joko Winterscheidt, 42, won the German TV Prize.
The format was honored as the best entertainment show on Thursday evening in Cologne - and thus prevailed against “The great Terra X-Show” (ZDF) and “Take Me Out” (RTL).
Winterscheidt was overjoyed.
"Thanks a million, really," he said.
There is an incredible amount of time in the show.
In «Who is stealing the show from me?»
the showmaster has to defend his job against four candidates.
Winterscheidt invented the broadcast.
This year's donors' honorary award went to the entertainer Hape Kerkeling.
ZDF presenter Markus Lanz also won - and dedicated the award to his mother.
The 52-year-old received the award for his talk show named after him in the journalism category “Best Information” - against the two classic political magazines “Frontal” (ZDF) and “Panorama” (ARD / NDR).
Lanz said that on his show he often had to deal with people who had the right answer to every question.
"Our job is basically to find the right question for every answer." That can only be done with a good editorial team.
In the end, he got personal.
"I know that there is an elderly lady sitting in the South Tyrolean mountains at the age of 87, who did not have an easy life and to whom I owe a great deal," said Lanz.
"Mama, this is for you."
Andrea Kiewel, 56, received the award as the best individual moderator in entertainment for the “ZDF television garden
The German Television Prize has been awarded for outstanding television performance since 1999.
It is donated by RTL, ZDF, Sat.1, ARD and Deutsche Telekom.
This year RTL was in charge of the project.
The broadcaster staged the award ceremony as a large open-air show.
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