European CIVIS Media Prize 2019 / 21 programmes nominated - four decisions already final!

Cologne (ots) - CIVIS Media Prize 2019 - Nominations and first
awards!

Anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism are the big topics in the
CIVIS Competition 2019 - along with migration, integration, flight
and asylum. The political climate in Germany and Europe is changing.
What is at stake are our fundamental democratic values.

Europe's most prestigious media prize for integration and cultural
diversity is once again celebrating outstanding radio, film, TV and
internet programmes. In 2019, a total of 767 programmes from 22 EU
member states and Switzerland entered the Europe-wide competition. 21
programmes have been nominated - four decisions already final.
However, which programmes have won the renowned CIVIS Media Prize
will only be announced on 23 May 2019 at the award ceremony in the
Federal Foreign Office in Berlin.

Overview of all the nominated programmes:
https://www.civismedia.eu/downloads/2019_civis_nominations.pdf

The CIVIS Media Prize for Integration and Cultural Diversity in
Europe is awarded in the categories AUDIO, TV.VIDEO, DIGITAL, YOUNG
C. and CIVIS SPECIAL.

Funk - a content network of ARD/ZDF and Westdeutscher Rundfunk are
nominated with three or four programs - as well the Nederlandse
Publieke Omroep 3, the Österreichische Rundfunk, the Radio Télévision
Suisse and ARTE. Further nominationes go to Bayerischer Rundfunk,
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, the Deutschlandradio, the
Südwestrundfunk and to SPIEGEL ONLINE.

Four prizes have already been awarded: The EUROPEAN YOUNG C. is
awarded to the Hamburg Media School, the SPECIAL PRIZE - FOOTBALL +
INTEGRATION goes to the Sveriges Television, to HAWAR.help, to the
Deutschlandfunk and to Funk - the content network of ARD/ZDF.

The European CIVIS Media Prize will be awarded on 23 May 2019 in a
televised gala ceremony at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin.
Around 400 special guests from the fields of media and politics are
going to attend the award ceremony. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the
Federal President of Germany, and Antonio Tajani, the President of
the European Parliament, are the patrons of the CIVIS Media Prize
2019.

The CIVIS CINEMA is an audience award given to European feature
films in German cinema. Audiences can cast their vote online between
24 April and 3 May 2019.

The CIVIS Media Prize is offered by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der
öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten in Deutschland (ARD),
represented by WDR together with the Freudenberg Foundation. The
media partners are ORF, SRG SSR, RTV Slovenia, Deutsche Welle,
Deutschlandradio, PHOENIX, ARTE, 3sat, Allianz Deutscher Produzenten,
VFF - Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten and
the EBU. The Integration Commissioner of the German Federal
Government, the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU (FRA) and the WDR
mediagroup are cooperation partners. The CIVIS Media Prize is under
the patronage of the European Parliament. Press contact:

Contact:
CIVIS Medienstiftung
für Integration und kulturelle Vielfalt in Europa
Michael Radix
Tel.: +49(0)221/277 587-0
E-Mail: info@civismedia.eu
www.civismedia.eu

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