HAUS FÜR POESIE

21 films are competing in the International Competition for three awards with a total value of €9,000: the “ZEBRA Award for the Best Poetry Film”, the “Goethe Film Award - The Art of Listening” and the “Ritter Sport Film Award”. The award will be presented on behalf of the Goethe-Institut by Dr. Wolf Iro, Head of Literature and Translation Promotion at Goethe-Institut, and on behalf of Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG by Michael Edmund Böttner, Head of Bunte Schokowelt Berlin. This year’s jury consists of Christine Franz (music journalist and documentary film director, Germany), Ariane von Graffenried (poet, Switzerland), and Anne Isensee (filmmaker, Germany).An audience award will also be presented in the ZEBRINO Competition for children and young people. The awards ceremony will be accompanied by music from A.S. Fanning. 

Hosted by Knut Elstermann 

The event languages are German and English.
Sponsored by: Goethe Institut, Ritter Sport
The event takes place at Kuppelhalle.