Reinhold Schünzel-Preis

Ehrenpreis für langjährige Verdienste um die Pflege, Bewahrung und Verbreitung des deutschen Film-Erbes an eine oder mehrere Personen (nicht Institutionen).

Benannt nach dem 1888 in Hamburg geborenen Schauspieler und Regisseur Reinhold Schünzel, der – aus dem Exil in Hollywood zurückgekehrt – 1954 in München gestorben ist.

Der Reinhold Schünzel-Preis 2019 wurde am Abend der feierlichen Eröffnung des cinefests am Samstag, den 16. November, in Hamburg verliehen. Die Laudatio hielt Michael Töteberg.

— Verliehen durch eine Jury, die von den Trägern des Festivals berufen wird.

— Jury 2019:

Michal Bregant, Direktor des Nationalen Filmarchivs in Prag
Heike Klapdor, Filmhistorikerin, Berlin, Reinhold Schünzel-Preisträgerin 2016
Jay Weissberg, Künstlerischer Direktor von Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone

Träger des Reinhold Schünzel-Preises 2019

Giovanni Spagnoletti

Filmhistoriker, Rom


Giovanni Spagnoletti, Michael Töteberg
(© María Rosé Rosales Robles)

Auszug aus der Jury-Entscheidung:
Should all the books with Giovanni Spagnoletti’s name on the cover, as either author or editor, be stacked in a tower, the sheer size would itself be humbling. His extraordinarily wide-ranging output encompasses the films of Robert Bresson and Stanley Kwan, the national cinemas of South Korea, Argentina, Russia and Israel (to name only a few), and of course multiple topics regarding Italian cinema. Yet his frequent return to German film clearly signals a lifelong dedication to this country’s cinema, from the silent era to the present. One can trace this interest to his studies at the Freie Universität in Berlin as well as Rome’s La Sapienza University, and his important volumes on Fassbinder, Wenders, Kluge as well as specific thematic focuses testify to a truly impressive breadth and depth of knowledge, with wide-ranging fluency in 20th century culture. It would be wrong however to limit his impact to books and articles, as the programs he curated at the Pesaro Film Festival, of which he was director from 2000 to 2014, as well as at other festivals and film events, have significantly shaped how an informed international public views German cinema. Giovanni was honoured several months ago with a Festschrift, "Un passo avanti", which makes it more than fitting that we are presenting Giovanni in the same year with the Reinhold Schünzel Award, for devotion to German film heritage.


Die bisherigen Preisträger:

2018: Jan-Christopher Horak (mehr)

2017: Lenny Borger (mehr)

2016: Heike Klapdor (mehr)

2015: Very Gyürey (mehr)

2014: Horst Claus (mehr)

2013: Wolfram Schütte (mehr)

2012: Bernard Eisenschitz (mehr)

2011: Barton Byg (mehr)

2010: Heide Schlüpmann (mehr)

2009: Volker Baer (mehr)

2008: Vladimír Opěla (mehr)

2007: Gero Gandert (mehr)

2006: Vittorio Martinelli (mehr)

2005: Wolfgang Klaue (mehr)

2004: Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart (mehr)