Teamworx, Mogadischu, Teaser Mogadischu named best TV movie of 2009 The Teamworx production about the October 1977 hijacking of Lufthansa’s ‘Landshut’ aircraft won the top German TV Award (Deutscher Fernsehpreis) on Saturday evening. RTL Television also won two German TV Awards.
 
The nine judges bestowed the year’s most important prize on Mogadischu. Apart from Teamworx CEO and Executive Producer Nico Hofmann and Mogadischu producers Gabriela Sperl and Jürgen Schuster, the award honors the movie’s director Roland Suso Richter, Maurice Philip Remy (script), Holly Fink (camera) – and of course its stars Thomas Kretschmann, Nadja Uhl, Jürgen Tarrach and Christian Berkel.


The team of Mogadischu

RTL Television’s Der Lehrer prevailed against the series Franzi and Lasko– another RTL programme – in the “Best Series” category. Der Lehrer premiered at the beginning of August. Finally, RTL Television won the award for “Best Comedy” with TV-Helden whose team prevailed over Oliver Welke’s Heute Show and Hape Kerkeling’s fictional character ‘Horst Schlämmer’.

Last Saturday marked the presentation of the 11th German TV Awards, an annual prize originally endowed by Germany’s four biggest broadcasters, RTL, ARD, ZDF and Sat.1. This year the jury of nine, chaired by Bettina Böttinger and comprised of actors, moderators, journalists, producers, directors and media scientists, awarded prizes in 21 categories.



28 September 2009 - Teamworx / RTL Television, Germany