Grimme Award 2010 for Swiss director Markus Imboden
12.03.2010
The Zurich-based film director Markus Imboden, from Bern, will be honoured with the prestigious Grimme Award. His fiction film for television “Mörder auf Amrum”, starring Swiss actor Roeland Wiesnekker, will receive the award in three categories. This is Imboden’s second Grimme Award, following his award for “Ausgerechnet Zoe” in 1995.
The Adolf Grimme Award will be presented to Imboden’s film on March 26 in Marl, Germany, in the category of Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Cast. The film had already been honoured with the Producer Award at the Filmfest Hamburg, as well as with the nomination for the Nordic Film Award and the nomination at the “Krimifilm Festival” in Wiesbaden. Markus Imboden is a film director and screenplay writer. “Katzendiebe” has been his most successful film for the cinema in Switzerland thus far, apart from “Komiker”.
The Adolf Grimme Award ranks among the most renowned German TV award. It is named after the first general director of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme (1889-1963). It awards productions that “use the specific possibilities of television as a medium in an extraordinary manner and, at the same time, can serve as examples regarding content and method.”
Zurich, March 10, 2010
The Adolf Grimme Award ranks among the most renowned German TV award. It is named after the first general director of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme (1889-1963). It awards productions that “use the specific possibilities of television as a medium in an extraordinary manner and, at the same time, can serve as examples regarding content and method.”
Zurich, March 10, 2010