Mario Adorf will be honored at the German Television Awards. He will be awarded the honorary prize at the TV gala next Wednesday.
This year’s German Television Awards are to honor a “true icon of the acting arts.” According to a statement from September 23, the sponsors (ARD, Deutsche Telekom, RTL, ZDF and SAT.1) are honoring Mario Adorf (94) and his career with an honorary award. “Mario Adorf has been one of the most renowned actors in Germany and beyond for decades,” explains this year’s chairman of the sponsors’ circle, WDR director Tom Buhrow (65), in a statement.
With his more than 200 roles, Adorf has “written television and film history and captivated entire generations with his enormous presence,” Buhrow continues. He has always remained a star without airs and graces. The credibility with which he portrays his characters is what makes him so charismatic and so successful. “For us as the founders of the German Television Prize, it is a great honor to be able to present Mario Adorf with the 2024 Honorary Award.”
Adorf, who made over 200 films in his international career spanning around seventy years and celebrated his 94th birthday on September 8th, will receive the honorary award on Wednesday (September 25th) as part of the TV gala (8:15 p.m., Das Erste). As honorary award winner, he succeeds Michael Bully Herbig (56), who was honored in 2023. Presenter Barbara Schöneberger (50) will once again host the awards ceremony in Cologne’s MMC Studios. On Tuesday, award winners will be honored for their individual creative achievements at the “Night of the Creatives”, with Esther Sedlaczek (38) hosting the ceremony.
German Television Award 2024: Who is nominated?
For the television award nominations, productions from fiction, entertainment, information and sports that were shown from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024 were considered. ZDF leads the nomination ranking overall with 30 nominations, followed by ARD with 21 nominations, RTL Deutschland with 16 nominations and Prime Video with ten. Six go to Disney+, four each to ProSiebenSat.1 and Netflix, two each to MagentaTV and WELT TV and one to Warner.
In the category “Best Entertainment Reality”, Bill and Tom Kaulitz (35) can hope for an award for their Netflix series “Kaulitz & Kaulitz”. In the category “Best Entertainment Show”, Joko Winterscheidt’s (45) quiz show “Wer stehlt mir die Show?” (ProSieben) and Jan Böhmermann’s (43) “Lass dichüberwachung!” (ZDF) are nominated.
Source: Stern
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