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 2011 will be announced during the opening ceremony of cinefest on Saturday, 12 November 2011.

— Jury 2011:

Jan-Christopher Horak, Director of UCLA Film & Television Archiv, Los Angeles, USA
Wolfgang Klaue, former president of FIAF and director of the national filmarchive of the GDR, Reinhold Schünzel laureate 2005
Leonardo Quaresima, Film Historian, Universities of Udine and Bologna

The Reinhold Schünzel Award 2011 went to

Barton Byg

Founder of the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

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)