Fritz Gerlich Prize
The Fritz Gerlich Prize goes to a feature film or documentary that courageously deals with a topic of public concern, reflecting Fritz Gerlich’s commitment to human rights, his endeavors to resist repression and intolerance and his opposition to all forms of the totalitarian abuse of power, persecution and oppression.
The prize (and €10,000 prize money) is donated by the Munich-based production company TELLUX-Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH and is intended to commemorate Gerlich, a Munich journalist who was executed in the Dachau concentration camp on June 30, 1934. Gerlich was a Catholic who, for reasons of conscience, boldly denounced the inhumane ideology of the Nazis and was one of the first members of the avowed intellectual resistance to be murdered after Hitler's rise to power. He was the publisher of the weekly newspaper, The Straight Path.
Fritz Gerlich Prize 2019
The Award Ceremony for the Fritz Gerlich Prize took place on Monday, July 01, 2019 at 7 pm (Allerheiligen-Hofkirche of the Residenz).
Winner
WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE?
Director: Roberto Minervini
Honorary Mention of the Jury
DIE STERNE ÜBER UNS
Director: Christina Ebelt
Producer Paolo Benzi (WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD’S ON FIRE?)
Previous Winners
2018 |
OF FATHERS AND SONS |
2017 |
LAYLA M. CITY OF GHOSTS |
2016 |
FANNYS REISE Director: Lola Doillon |
2015 |
FAR FROM MEN Director: David Oelhoffen |
2014 |
A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT Director: Erik Poppe |
2013 |
DAS MÄDCHEN WADJDA Director: Regisseurin Haifaa Al-Mansour |
2012 |
REVISION Director: Philip Scheffner |
