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The German Television Prize has been awarded since 1999 and honors outstanding achievements in TV and streaming. The selection is made by an independent jury of experts.
The director Bettina Oberli was awarded the German Television Prize in the “Best Director Fiction” category for the series “Naked”. The series is about a young woman (Svenja Jung) who falls in love with a sex addict (Noah Saavedra). In haunting images, the series shows how difficult it can be to free yourself from addictions, especially if you enter into a relationship with an addicted person.
The six-part series deals relentlessly and honestly with the effects of sex addiction on those affected and their families. “I don’t think anyone expects a series like this in the ARD media library,” said actress Svenja Jung at the start of the series, which contains 36 sex scenes.
The television awards ceremony has once again been divided into two evenings. The “Night of the Creatives” traditionally honors achievements that people have achieved behind the scenes in the TV industry - for example in directing, on camera or in equipment. The setting is festive, but a little more intimate. On the second evening there will be a big TV gala at which, among other things, the best actresses and actors will be announced. Prizes will be awarded in 18 additional categories. This show will also be broadcast on television by RTL on Wednesday evening (8:15 p.m.). Barbara Schöneberger will moderate the event.
The ZDFneo series “Chabos” and the ARD series “Hundred Thirteen” and “The Policeman’s Niece” received the most nominations, with four categories each. In the overall comparison of work and person categories, ARD has the most nominations with 32, followed by ZDF with 23, RTL with 15 and ProSiebenSat.1 with eleven. The streaming service Netflix has been nominated seven times.
Stephan Lamby chairs the jury
The other winners of the first award ceremony on Tuesday evening included Eike Köhler, Kim Kristin Mauch and Björn Kurtenbach for “Mine Diver – The Hard Way into the Elite of the Bundeswehr” in the Information section for the best camera. For the best book of fiction, Rolf Basedow, Nicole Armbruster and Gabriela Sperl were awarded for “The Policeman's Niece”, while in the entertainment category the award in this category went to Christian Ehring and Dietmar Jacobs for “extra 3” from October 23rd, 2025. The topic was: “Dispute over the cityscape: Merz is rumbling”.
The German Television Prize has been awarded since 1999 and honors outstanding achievements in TV and streaming. The selection of nominees and award winners is in the hands of an independent jury of experts. This year the journalist Stephan Lamby (including “Ernstfall - Governing at the Limit”) took over the chairmanship.
The German Television Prize is supported by ARD, RTL, Sat.1, ZDF and Deutsche Telekom. The streaming providers Disney+, Netflix and Prime Video are partners. The leadership changes year after year. This year she took over RTL.
From Thursday to Sunday, the Binnenalster Film Festival shows films for free on a floating screen on Jungfernstieg in Hamburg. The program includes “Flow”, “Notting Hill”, “Fack ju Göhte” and “Little Miss Sunshine”. If the weather is bad, visitors can sit on the steps.
The historical film "The Uprising - For Freedom" was shot almost entirely in Nuremberg and the surrounding area, despite the English plot. Nuremberg's old town, particularly St. Sebald's Church, served as the main backdrop. Over 5,000 extras and 50 days of filming were involved. Director Paul Greengrass, lead actor Andrew Garfield and the team praised the collaboration and respectful treatment of the filming locations.

The creators of "South Park" announce that they will rename the series "South America" for its 29th season, in a satirical response to Trump's renamings such as Lake Ontario to Lake America and the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Paramount is also being criticized for its takeover by Skydance and its proximity to Trump.
The director Bettina Oberli and her colleague Carsten Seibt are among the first winners of the German Television Prize 2026. The awards were presented in the evening in Cologne at a “Night of the Creatives”. Further prizes went to Eike Köhler, Kim Kristin Mauch, Björn Kurtenbach, Rolf Basedow, Nicole Armbruster, Gabriela Sperl, Christian Ehring and Dietmar Jacobs. The jury is led by Stephan Lamby.
Film festival director Malika Rabahallah presented the program for the Hamburg Film Festival 2024. 114 films will be shown from September 24th to October 3rd. Helen Mirren receives the Douglas Sirk Prize. There will be another free entry day on October 3rd.
The shortlist for the German Book Prize has been determined: six finalists, including five female authors and one male author, are competing for the award and 25,000 euros in prize money. It is the first time in the history of the prize that women have dominated so much.