Five cameramen and one camerawoman as well as one editor were honored with the German Camera Prize this year. The Board of Trustees also awarded two young talent prizes and one honorary prize.
Photo: WDR / Melanie Grande
“It’s impressive how creatively and with what a thirst for discovery the media industry repeatedly crystallizes new facets of our society and tells them on film,” said Walter Demonte, Managing Director of the Deutscher Kamerapreis Köln e. V, for the award ceremony. “Driven by what moves us. All combined with excellent design, passion and exceptional professionalism. This is exactly why the award-winning designers will receive the coveted obelisk this year.”
These are the winners of the 33rd German Camera Award:
Best Camera/Fiction Cinema Manuel Dacosse for “You won’t get my hate”
Best Camera / Fiction Screen Tim Kuhn for “Luden – Kings of the Reeperbahn”
Best Camera / Short Film Nico Schrenk für „Everybody leaves at the end“
Beste Kamera / Doku Kino Susanne Schuele for “Europa Passage”
Best Camera / Docu Screen Jakob Stark for “Art Crimes – van Gogh: Amsterdam, 2002”
Best Camera / Current Short Formats Jan Mammey for “Contaminated and Poisoned: Danger on the Polish Vistula”
Best Editing / Documentary Screen Ralf Streese for “In the Labyrinth – The Musician Jörg Widmann”
Best Editing / Documentary Cinema Mechthild Barth for “Elfriede Jelinek – Letting the language off the leash”
Young Talent Awards Sebastian Husak for “Idyll” (cut) Aleksandra Dyja for “I’m just dead” (camera)
The young talent prizes are donated this year by ARRI and SIGMA (Deutschland) GmbH.
This year’s award goes to Bella Halben. The camerawoman, born in 1957, has shot four feature films and a series with Oscar winner Caroline Link (“Im Winter ein Jahr”, “Exit Marrakech”), 13 films with director Hans Steinbichler (“Hierankl”, “Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank”) and 15 films with Francis Meletzky (“Aenne Burda – The Economic Miracle Woman”). According to the board of trustees of the GERMAN CAMERA PRIZE, Bella Halben is “one of the still far too few camerawomen” in the German film and television landscape. With her creativity, creative power and her feeling for images, she is an “inspiring role model for young camerawomen on their way into the world of image design”.
The May 26 awards ceremony will be broadcast on the following dates:
WDR television: May 30, 2023, 11:45 p.m. and in the ARD media library
