Prix Europa winners announced at media festival awarding the best in public service productions

Prix Europa, the European broadcasting festival for public service productions supported by the EBU awarded 14 awards to the best in European TV, Radio and online productions of the year.

Prix Europa Winners

TV Awards
Prix Genève Europe (Best TV Fiction Script):Combat Girls (Germany)
David F. Wnendt wins the Prix Genève Europe award for his script Kriegerin (Combat Girls)** submitted by public broadcaster ZDF/Das Kleine Fernsehspiel. The Prix Genève Europe award is for the best TV fiction written by a new writer and produced or commissioned by a national broadcaster over the last year.  The award was created by the EATC** under the auspices of the EBU.

TV Documentary: The Snow Ball War Darkness (Norway)
TV Current Affairs: Lost Honour – The Story of the Sürücü Family (Germany)
TV Fiction: Sherlock – A Study in Pink (United Kingdom), The Strongest Man in Holland (The Netherlands)TV Iris (best multicultural TV programme):  Winter of Love (The Netherlands)
Language Through Lenses (students’ short films on learning languages): The Importance of Speaking Two Languages (Italy)

Radio Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award Radio:  Raina Konstantinova, European Broadcasting Union
The Prix Europa awarded its first ever Lifetime Achievement Award to EBU Radio Director Raina Konstantinova, for "outstanding achievements in service of the radio medium in Europe".
Radio Documentary: My grandfather’s Doublelife (Denmark),  Ladies of the Manor – Scenes from a Marriage of Convenience (Austria)
Radio Fiction: Tacet (Silence 2) (Germany), Home Goal (France)
Radio Music: (programmes on music): WDR 3 Favourites (Germany)

Online Award
Nowhwere Safe (France)

Note to editors:
* The TV fiction, submitted by ZDF/Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, directed by David Wnendt and produced by Renee Frotscher of Martens Film und Fernsehproduktion was among the twelve of already produced TV Fiction scripts written by new talents submitted to an international jury of five fiction professionals who met in Berlin during the Prix Europa competition.
Kriegerin explores the motivations which drive young girls into the arms of extremist demagogues. It is a realistic, uncompromising depiction avoiding stereotypes.
The jury considered that the story contains great complexity of plot, strong characters, texture and relevance.

** The Prix Genève Europe was created in 1987 by the European Alliance for Television and Culture (EATC), an alliance made up of European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Members (ARD, France Télévisions pôle France 2, NPO, SSR-IdéeSuisse, YLE and ZDF), as well as the EBU itself and the City and Canton of Geneva.