The CIVIS Media Prize for Integration and Cultural Diversity in Europe, or CIVIS Media Prize for short, was founded in 1987 by the Federal Government Commissioner for Foreigners' Issues together with ARD, under the responsibility of Westdeutscher Rundfunk and the Freudenberg Foundation. The CIVIS Media Prize is organised and implemented by the non-profit CIVIS Media Foundation.
Organiser The CIVIS Media Prize is organised by the Association of Public Broadcasting Corporations in the Federal Republic of Germany (ARD), represented by WDR, together with the Freudenberg Foundation. ORF, SRG SSR, ARTE, 3sat, phoenix, Deutsche Welle, Deutschlandradio and EBU are media partners. The WDR mediagroup, the German Producers Alliance - Film & Television, VFF - Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), the Open Society Foundations and the Deutsche Postcode Lotterie are cooperation partners.
The CIVIS Media Prize is implemented by the non-profit CIVIS Media Foundation with the aim of raising awareness of integration and cultural diversity among radio and television programme makers and promoting an innovative and professional approach to developments in the European immigration society. The organisation aims to contribute to intercultural understanding and European integration through the work of the electronic media.
The chairman of the Board of Trustees of the CIVIS Media Foundation is the director general of Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Tom Buhrow. The members of the Board of Trustees, through their activities in civil society, aim to promote the foundation's objectives in the public sphere. The chair of the CIVIS Programme Advisory Board is Jona Teichmann, Programme Director Deutschlandradio.
Competition The CIVIS Media Prize is awarded as a European television prize and as a radio prize for German-language programmes in the European Union and Switzerland. In addition, the Young CIVIS Media Prize has been awarded since 2004 to young journalists, as well as students and graduates of film and media schools who are no older than 32. The CIVIS Media Prize and the Young CIVIS Media Prize are endowed. The CIVIS Online Prize has been awarded since 2010. The prize honours journalistic internet content dealing with issues of integration and cultural diversity and presented in a web-friendly graphic and multimedia format. The CIVIS Online Prize is also endowed. Other prizes include the CIVIS Television Prize for magazine programmes and the CIVIS Cinema Prize.
In 2005 and 2006, the European Roma Television Prize was also awarded. In 2008, the CIVIS Media Prize for Integration and Cultural Diversity honoured radio and television reports on the integration of immigrants in companies and their everyday working lives for the first time with the CIVIS Business Prize.
All programme contributions meeting the entry conditions and submitted to the CIVIS Media Foundation within the competition period are eligible to compete for the CIVIS Media Prize.
The international CIVIS Media Prize is awarded each year. The award ceremony will be broadcast live on the Internet. ARD and other television stations will broadcast the award ceremony.
Award winner Source:
1988 Source:
Television
CIVIS Television Award - Featured Contributions: Tatort - Voll auf Haß, NDR, Winner: Bernhard Schadewald, Germany CIVIS Television Prize - Feature film section: Sinan Ohneland. Memo, mein Vater (Part 1), SFB, Winner: Yasemin and Izzet Akay, Germany CIVIS Television Award - entries over 10 minutes in length: Miterlebt: Türkiyem - Fußballheimat in der Fremde, SFB, winner: Andreas Witte, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Special prize for special programme achievements: Impetus: Kinder-Bambini-Cockuklar, ZDF, Winners: Simone Emmelius and Horst Werner, Germany
1989 Source:
Television
CIVIS Television Award - Information section: Roma in Köln, WDR, winner: Uli Veith, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Feature programmes: Drachenfutter, ZDF, winner: Jan Schütte, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Special prize for special programme achievements: Drachenfutter, ZDF, winner: Bhasker Patel and Ric Young, main actors of the film, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Special Award for Special Programme Achievement: Hürdenlauf - Der Weg zum deutschen Pass, HR, Winner: Kamil Taylan, Germany
Radio
CIVIS Radio Award - Information section: Merhaba - Welcome to Radio Dortmund International, prizewinners: Levent Aktoprak and Monika Gotthold, deputy editors for the WDR regional studio Dortmund/Local Radio with their freelance colleagues, Germany CIVIS Radio Prize - Radio Drama section, Feature: Experience of Germany - a Chilean asylum seeker says goodbye, Radio Bremen, winner: Christian Cortés, Germany CIVIS Radio Prize - special prize for special programme achievements: I have only worn this star since I realised that I am a foreigner. Young Turkish woman protests with Star of David against hatred of foreigners, SFB, Award winners: Andreas Lohse and Sahra Fee, Germany CIVIS Radio Prize - special prize for special programme achievements: Alltagskonflikte - Mit so einem gehst Du? - German-Turkish love, WDR, winner: Ute Remus, Germany
1990 Source:
Television
CIVIS Television Award - Information section: Sinti and Roma in Berlin a different, more beautiful life, Rias-TV, winner: Andrea Schmelzer, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Entertainment section: Doppelpunkt: Mein Land, Dein Land - ist Deutschland nur für Deutsche da?, ZDF, prizewinners: Michael Steinbrecher and Steffen Bayer, Germany CIVIS Television Prize - Feature programme section: Farewell to Paradise, ZDF, winner: Tevfik Başer, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Special award for special programme achievements: Es gibt mich noch, WDR, Winner: Klaus Antes, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Special award for special programme achievements: Night Studio series: Foreigners, ARD, winner: Klaus Lackschewitz, deputy for the ARD film editorial team, Germany
Radio
CIVIS Radio Award - Entertainment section: Radio Münsterland unterwegs, WDR, award winners: Dagmar Böhme-Jasper and Holger Hülsmeyer, Germany CIVIS Radio Prize - Entertainment category: Radio unfrisiert: Die Deutschen - Portrait von Ausländern gezeichnet, HR, Winners: Volker Bernius and Ursula Dziela, Germany CIVIS Radio Prize - Radio Drama, Feature: Walled in, Radio Bremen, Winner: Jürgen Alberts, Germany CIVIS Radio Prize - special prize for special programme achievements: Eurohymne, BR, prizewinners: Ulrich Bassenge and Herbert Kapfer, Germany
1991 Source:
Television
CIVIS Television Award - Information category: Doppelpunkt vor Ort: Das Schlimmste verhindern, ZDF, winner: Dietmar Westenberger, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Entertainment: Die Sendung mit der Maus, WDR, SWF, SR, winner: Enrico Platter, deputy for the editorial group for children's programmes, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Feature Programmes: Yasemin, ZDF, winner: Hark Bohm, Germany CIVIS Television Award - special prize for special programme achievements: Der türkische Tag, ZDF, winner: Dieter Stolte, deputy for ZDF, Germany
Radio
CIVIS Radio Prize - Entertainment category: Turkish songs about foreign countries, WDR, winner: Hüseyin Erdem, Germany CIVIS Radio Prize - Radio Drama, Feature: The view of the stranger. Neighbourhood with Foreigners, WDR, winner: Irene Dänzer-Vanotti, Germany CIVIS Radio Prize - special prize for special programme achievements: Toucher le son - Touching the sound. African sounds in Paris, SFB, winner: Ursula Weck, Germany
1992 Source:
Television
CIVIS Television Award - Information section: Zum Beispiel Berlin. On dealing with xenophobia, WDR, award winners: Felix Kuballa, Gert Monheim, Yoash Tatari and Peter Schran, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Entertainment section: 110 Grad - das junge Magazin: Ausländer in Deutschland, RIAS-TV/Deutsche Welle, winner: Ille Simon, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Featured programmes: Karfunkel: Ich bin ein Kanake, ZDF, winner: Thomas Draeger, Germany CIVIS Television Award - special award for special programme achievements: Fremde Heimat, 3sat, Winner: Editorial team Das kleine Fernsehspiel, Germany Radio CIVIS Radio Prize - Information category: Foreigners, 5-part series, SWF3, winner: Michael Hertle, Germany CIVIS Radio Award - Entertainment: Ich bin ein Ausländer Rockfestival gegen Ausländerfeindlichkeit, SFB, winner: Jugendwelle Radio 4, Germany CIVIS Radio Prize - Radio Play, Feature: Radio play competitions, Heimat oder Fremde. Geschichten aus dem Migrantenleben - Brücke zwischen zwei Kulturen, WDR, prizewinner: Italian editorial team and radio play programme group, Germany CIVIS Radio Prize - special prize for special programme achievements: Reading: Letter to Europe, ORB, Winner: Said, Germany
1993 Source:
Television
CIVIS Television Award - Information category: Heiterblick, Roma in Sachsen, MDR, prizewinners: Kerstin Mempel and Hendrik Flemming, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Entertainment: Scheibenwischer, SFB, Winner: Dieter Hildebrandt, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Entertainment category: Wir gegen Rassismus - Kumpel Anton, RTL, RTL employee initiative and commercial, winner: RTL employees, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Special prize for special programme achievements: He who sows violence... Von Biedermännern und Brandstiftern, WDR, Winner: Gert Monheim, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Special prize for special programme achievements: Commentaries on the arson attack in Solingen, ARD, award winners: Aysim Alpmann, Klaus Bednarz, Fritz Pleitgen, WDR and Georg Hafner, HR, Germany
Radio
CIVIS Radio Prize - Information section: On the road in Germany. With the asylum seekers in Weilerswist, Deutsche Welle, winner: Simone Sitte, Germany CIVIS Radio Prize - Entertainment category: Riff. German-foreign love stories, WDR, winner: Sefa İnci Suvak, Germany CIVIS Radio Prize - Radio Drama, Feature: Dreck, WDR, Winners: Robert Schneider and Norbert Schaeffer, Germany CIVIS Radio Prize - Special prize for special programme achievements: Europawerkstatt, WDR, Winners: Authors and Editors, Germany
1994 Source:
Television
CIVIS Television Award - Information section: The city belongs to us. Right-wing violence in Schwedt, ORB, prizewinners: Gesine Enwaldt and Enrico Demurray, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Entertainment category: Schwarzfahrer, various broadcasters, winner: Pepe Danquart, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Feature films: Happy Birthday, Türke!, ZDF, winner: Doris Dörrie, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Special prize for special programme achievements: Initiative Media against Racism, initiators: CIVIS Award winner 1993, Germany CIVIS Youth Jury Prize: Then just with violence, ZDF, winner: Rainer Kaufmann, Germany
Radio
CIVIS Radio Prize - Information section: Bosnic family from Hanau, HR, winner: Anica Falica, Germany CIVIS Radio Prize - Entertainment category: With Zurna and Soul. Turkish Rap in Germany, DLF, Winner: Michael Frank, Germany CIVIS Radio Prize - Radio Drama, Feature: Roma heißt Menschen - 12 Millionen Sinti und Roma leben in Europa, WDR, Winner: Monika Siegfried-Hagenow, Germany CIVIS Radio Prize - special prize for special programme achievements: Peter, my friend, ORB, winner: Miriam Loewy, Germany
1995 Source:
Television
CIVIS Television Award - Information category: Menschen hautnah: Kumpel Charly, WDR, winner: Imad Karim, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Entertainment: Programme series Karfunkel, ZDF, Winners: Omar Saavedra Santis and Alejandro Quintana, Germany CIVIS Television Award - Feature Programmes: A Song for Beko, WDR/ARTE, Winner: Nizamettin Aric, Germany CIVIS Television Award - special prize for special programme achievements: Auf Wiedersehen im Himmel - Die Kinder von der St. Josefspflege, SWF, Winners: Michail Krausnick, Romani Rose and Anita Awosusi, Germany