German Television Award 2024: Another award for “Let’s Dance”

The “Night of the Creatives” moderated by Esther Sedlaczek (38) on Tuesday evening (24.09.) in the Cologne Flora marked the start of the award ceremony of the German Television Awards 2024. received their awards in the eleven personal categories of the program areas fiction, entertainment and information.

No production has received two awards so far. However, “Let’s Dance” director Mark Achterberg (53) won in the category Best Direction Entertainment, as he did last year. The most nominated series “Die Zweiflers” with six nominations did win the award for Best Camera Fiction in this first part of the television awards.

Here is the complete list:

Winners in the fiction category

Best Director: Katja Benrath, Mia Maariel Meyer for “Push” (ZDFneo / Bantry Bay)

Best book: Annette Hess for “Deutsches Haus” (Disney+ / Gaumont)

Best Cinematography: Phillip Kaminiak for Die Zweiflers (ARD / Degeto / hr / Turbokultur)

Best Editing: Martin Menzel for “I am! Margot Friedländer” (ZDF / UFA Documentary)

Best Music: Anna Kühlein for “What We Fear” (ZDFneo / Bavaria Fiction)

Best production design: Lea Fumy-Schleef, Uta Materne (production design) for “Pauline” (Disney+ / btf)

Winners in the entertainment category

Best Director: Mark Achterberg for “Let’s Dance” (RTL / Seapoint / BBC Studios)

Best book: Raphael Selter, Henriette Johnson, Schlecky Silberstein, Jan Krebs for “Browser Ballet: Breasts of Terror (4)” / “My best friend votes AfD (5)” / “The AI ​​colleague (6)” (ZDFneo / Steinberger Silberstein)

Best set design: Bode Brodmüller (set design), Adriano Ciarrettino (props) for “The Teddy Teclebrhan Show” (Prime Video / Leonine Studios / Kofbelu)

Winners in the Information / Documentation category

Best Camera Information: Luise Schröder, Julian Vogel for “Einzeltäter” (ZDF / Das Kleine Fernsehspiel / Corso Film)

Best editing: Annette Muff for “Capital B – Who owns Berlin?” (arte / rbb / WDR / Port au Prince / Fruitmarket)

Nominations in the work categories

The awards in the so-called work categories will be presented at the TV gala this Wednesday evening (25 September) from 8:15 p.m. on Das Erste. Among other things, as already announced, the donors’ honorary award will be presented to actor Mario Adorf (94).

Who else was chosen by the independent jury of experts chaired by producer Wolf Bauer (born 1950) is still a secret. There is hope in the category of Best TV Film / Multi-Part: “Blindspot” (ZDF / Network Movie), “I am! Margot Friedländer” and “Silver and the Book of Dreams” (Prime Video / Constantin Film).

Nominated in the Best Drama Series category are: “Deutsches Haus”, “Liebes Kind” (Netflix / Constantin TV), “Maxton Hall – The World Between Us” (Prime Video / UFA Fiction), “Push” and “Die Zweiflers”.

The winners for Best Comedy Series were: “Die Discounter 3” (Prime Video / Pyjama Pictures), “Legend of Wacken” (RTL+ / Florida Film) and “Neue Geschichten vom Pumuckl” (RTL+ / Neuesuper).

The German Television Awards for Best Actress and Best Actor are also eagerly awaited.