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Important cultural awards in Germany
1 Golden Bear
The Berlin International Film Festival:
one of the world’s key film festivals next to
Venice and Cannes. A Golden Bear and
several Silver Bears are awarded.
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Berlin
2 Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse
Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse is a book prize
awarded to a new publication in German.
2
Leipzig
Frankfurt am Main
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5
Darmstadt
3 Deutscher Filmpreis
Featuring prize money totalling almost
3 million euros, Deutscher Filmpreis is the
best endowed German cultural prize.
4 German Book Prize
A jury chooses the best novel written in
German that year.
5 Georg Büchner Preis
The Georg Büchner Preis is the pre-eminent
literature prize for Germany, Austria and
Switzerland.
not necessarily cosy, but it is certainly excit-
the metropolis for young, contemporary art
ing and dynamic.
that features strongly in the Berlin Art Week,
when all over the city venues present the latest
The visual arts in Germany are likewise cos-
artistic ideas. Indeed, Germany’s capital is to-
mopolitan and international. As the statistics
day undoubtedly one of the world’s largest
of the new intake at German art academies
hubs where contemporary art is produced.
and colleges shows: In 2013, the number of
This is demonstrated every two years at the
new students coming from abroad for the first
Venice Biennale, and not just in the German
time exceeded that of Germans. Today Berlin,
Pavilion there: A large number of the interna-
with about 500 galleries and its many spaces
tional artists exhibited in the city on the la-
for presenting artistic positions, is considered
goon state that they live in Berlin.