Reinhold Schünzel Award

The Reinhold Schünzel Award is an honorary prize awarded for long-time achievements in the field of restoration, preservation or dissemination and popularisation of the German film heritage.

Reinhold Schünzel was an actor and director, born in Hamburg. After returning from exile in Hollywood he died in Munich in 1954.

The laureate of the Reinhold Schünzel Award 2009 will be announced during the opening ceremony of cinefest on Saturday, 14 November 2009.

— Jury 2009:
Hervé Dumont, Direktor der Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne
Mariann Lewinsky, film historian and festival curator, Zurich
Wolfgang Klaue, former president of FIAF and director of the national filmarchive of the GDR, Reinhold Schünzel laureate 2005

The Reinhold Schünzel Award 2009 goes to

Volker Baer

Film critic and longtime editor of Tagesspiegel, Berlin


Previous laureates:

2008: Vladimir Opela (more)

2007: Gero Gandert (more)

2006: Vittorio Martinelli (more)

2005: Wolfgang Klaue (more)

2004: Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart (more)