Bavarian Film Prize: Uschi Glas is awarded an honorary prize

On Friday, January 24th (broadcast from 10:05 p.m. on BR), the Bavarian Film Prize will be awarded in Munich’s Prinzregententheater. This year’s honorary award from the Prime Minister goes to actress Uschi Glas (80). It will be presented by Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (58) himself.

“Uschi Glas is an acting icon. She has inspired all generations for decades, represents the Bavarian way of life and has a big heart,” enthuses the politician. Through film classics, but also modern films such as “Fack ju Göhte”, she is one of “the absolute audience favorites in film and television. The screen is her home.”

In addition to its importance for the film industry, Söder also highlighted Uschi Glas’s voluntary commitment in his explanation. Among other things, she supports patient protection and Doctors Without Borders as well as her own association “brotZeit”, which provides school children with a healthy breakfast.

“Uschi Glas is a great role model and an important representative of the Free State,” the Prime Minister continued. That’s why the honorary award is being given to her not only for her acting successes, but also for “her honest, exemplary actions as a human being.” In addition, Markus Söder himself has been a big fan of their films since his youth.

Uschi Glas, a native of Lower Bavaria, was discovered by the producer Horst Wendlandt (1922-2002). After smaller roles, she took on her first leading role in the cinema in 1966 in “Winnetou and the Half-Blood Apanatschi”. Two years later she celebrated her final breakthrough with the film “To the Matter, Sweetheart”. This was followed by several Edgar Wallace films as well as numerous other film and television productions. In the 2010s, Glas was also able to win over younger audiences through the role of the suicidal teacher in the “Fack ju Göhte” series.