2023-08-16 06:36:48
The 72nd War Blind Radio Play Prize goes to the radio play “Ent Grenzgänger II” by Robert Schoen.
The radio play by Hessischer Rundfunk received the renowned prize for radio art on Tuesday at Deutschlandradio’s Cologne radio station, as the Film and Media Foundation NRW announced. Every year, the radio play prize is awarded to an original radio play that makes outstanding use of the art form. The award is endowed with 5,000 euros.
“Ent Grenzgänger II” was shot in the Russian city of Cherkessk in the North Caucasus, a hotspot of conflict. The director had left the location to chance when the dice were rolled. According to the jury, the play tells “regarding a journey to a small, apparently remote part of Russia”. Without appearing cocky as a “Westerner”, the author meanders wisely and modestly through Cherkessk in the North Caucasus with an always open microphone.
Two other radio plays were nominated. The satirical story “KITA – The human potential” by Antje Vauh and Carina Pesch (WDR/Dlf Kultur) plays out the possible use of artificial intelligence in childcare and child-rearing. The SWR production “Mixing Memory and Desire I” is the first part of writer Werner Fritsch’s autobiography regarding a Catholic childhood on a farm in Upper Palatinate in the 1960s/70s.
The prize was established in 1950 by the Association of War Blinds. The award is now sponsored by the Film and Media Foundation NRW and the German Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired.
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