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 2010 will be announced during the opening ceremony of cinefest on Saturday, 13 November 2010.

— Jury 2010:

Jan-Christopher Horak, Director of UCLA Film & Television Archiv, Los Angeles, USA
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 2010 goes to

Heide Schlüpmann

Filmhistorian (author of "The Uncanny Gaze. The Drama of Early German Cinema")

Previous laureates:

2009: Volker Baer (more)

2008: Vladimir Opela (more)

2007: Gero Gandert (more)

2006: Vittorio Martinelli (more)

2005: Wolfgang Klaue (more)

2004: Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart (more)