Awards: Appeals for Open Society at the Bavarian Film Award

It is one of the youngest award winners who find the clearest words: “I hope that Germany wakes up,” says actress Jella Haase after being awarded the best actress at the Bavarian Film Award in Munich. In the pressure of the right in German politics, my heart overturns me, my heart overturns.

Haase: “I defend myself from the depth of my heart”

“I defend myself out of the depth of my heart,” says Haase, “contradicts the normalization and trivialization of right -wing attitudes” and against the “brutalization in cooperation”. The 32-year-old, who is honored for her role in “Chantal in the fairytale” and receives long applause and some standing ovations for her acceptance speech, says that she would like to stir up.

Haase is by no means the only one that uses the glamor evening at a time at a time when the tone in the Bundestag election campaign is intensified and parties undercut the violence of Aschaffenburg with demands for sharp consequences, against right-hand pressure in politics and To defend society.

Actress Katja Bürkle, who gives the director Ayşe Polat the directing price for her film “Im Toten Winkel”, sees a time that “smeared in politics into plumpest populism”. Polat speaks of “division, hatred and madness”, against which one has to defend themselves. She hopes “humanity, empathy and respect brings us together,” she says.

“Let’s defend our democracy”

“Let’s defend our democracy,” says 80 -year -old honorary award winner Uschi Glas, after congratulating a kneeling Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) on the porcelain age “Pierrot”. Her reaction to it: “It would not have needed the knee.”

“We thought about how to deal with it,” said moderator Sandra Rieß at the beginning of the event. But then – despite the terrible knife attack in Aschaffenburg, which has determined and tightened the political debate since this week, “decided with the Bavarian State Chancellery that the Bavarian Film Award should take place”.

Söder, who has mixed out loudly in the debate of the past few days, missed Haases appeal. But he took a seat in the Prinzregententheater when the documentary filmmaker Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck, which was awarded for her AI-critical film “Eternal You”, set up a blazing appeal for the social importance of art and culture.

Documentary filmmaker warns of the fire against play

“Reasons are not a pure arithmetic game,” says Block and Söder directed: “Nice that those responsible have also arrived this evening.” His colleague Riesewieck adds: “We are experiencing this day how Big Tech would be thrown at a demagogue and the most important values ​​of open society” would be thrown overboard. Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly powerful, producing “propaganda en masse”. “In such a situation, the idea of ​​saving culture – that is with the fire.” Standing ovation is available in the hall. Söder stays seated.