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Berlin (dpa) - Golden Globes, Grammys, Oscars, Berlinale - until then everything was normal.
Then came Corona and many rejections.
The cultural scene froze - but not completely.
05.01.
The war film “1917” by the British Sam Mendes received two Golden Globes in Beverly Hills (USA): for best drama and for best director.
The comedy "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" by US director Quentin Tarantino received three awards.
Best actress is American Renée Zellweger, best actor is American Joaquin Phoenix.
23.01.
Violist Tabea Zimmermann from Berlin receives the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.
The award, endowed with 250,000 euros, is one of the world's most important music prizes.
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26.01.
The 18-year-old US singer and songwriter Billie Eilish is the big winner with five prizes at the 62nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
Among other things, her song “Bad Guy” was named “Song of the Year”.
02/09
The Korean satirical film "Parasite" by director Bong Joon Ho wins four Hollywood Oscars, including the one for best film.
Best leading actress is Renée Zellweger as singer Judy Garland in the biographical film “Judy”, best actor Joaquin Phoenix for his role as the later Batman counterpart “Joker”.
02/18
The US singer and five-time Grammy winner Billie Eilish ("Bad Guy") will receive the Brit Award for best international artist in London.
The Scot Lewis Capaldi wins two awards: for the single of the year (“Someone You Loved”) and for Best Young Artist.
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02/29
The Berlinale Golden Bear goes to the Iranian drama “There is no evil”, which deals with the death penalty in the country.
The director Mohammed Rassulof was not allowed to travel from his home country.
The German actress Paula Beer received the Silver Bear for her role in Christian Petzold's love film "Undine".
08.03.
The US publisher Hachette takes Woody Allen's autobiography from its program after protests.
His adopted daughter Dylan Farrow has been accused of abuse against the director for decades.
Allen had always rejected that.
03/12
The jury names the winners of the Leipzig Book Prize: Lutz Seiler for his novel “Stern 111”, the historian Bettina Hitzer for her non-fiction book “Feeling cancer” and Pieke Biermann for a translation.
The Leipzig Book Fair had been canceled.
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April 19
With the virtual concert “One World: Together at Home”, many world stars thank the helpers in the corona pandemic from home.
They also call for donations.
The TV show, which is broadcast worldwide, lasts eight hours.
US singer Lady Gaga is one of the organizers.
04/25
The winner of the German Film Prize with the Golden Lola and other awards is the drama “Systemsprenger” by Nora Fingscheidt.
Best leading actress is eleven-year-old Helena Zengel in the role of an aggressive girl.
The Silver Lola goes to the film “Berlin Alexanderplatz”.
04/27
The writer Nora Bossong receives the Thomas Mann Prize endowed with 25,000 euros.
The 38-year-old is one of the most versatile German-speaking authors today, explains the jury.
04/28
British writer Ian McEwan is awarded the Goethe Medal 2020.
Other prizewinners are the Bolivian artist Elvira Espejo Ayca and the South African writer Zukiswa Wanner.
With the undoped prize, the Goethe-Institut honors people for their outstanding commitment to international cultural exchange.
09.06.
The US media group Warner is temporarily removing the historical film "Gone with the Wind" from its offer.
The story of a love story from the American Civil War has been criticized as trivializing slavery.
17.06.
The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade goes to the Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. He has been grappling with issues of global justice for decades, according to the explanation.
06/21
The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for German-Language Literature goes to the Berlin writer Helga Schubert in a virtual competition.
Your text "Vom Auferstehen" is about an ambivalent mother-daughter relationship.
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07.07.
The author Elke Erb receives the Georg Büchner Prize.
For the writer, poetry is a political and lively form of knowledge, judged the jury.
The prize is considered the most important literary award in Germany.
14.07.
The author Nora Bossong wins the Joseph Breitbach Prize endowed with 50,000 euros.
The work of the 38-year-old is political in every line, but does not moralize, the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz announced.
08/19
The “Tanz” magazine names the Zurich Ballet “Company of the Year”.
The Swiss stage also impressed with “Production of the Year”: Christian Spuck's “The girl with the sulfur sticks”.
The Briton Akram Khan is “Choreographer of the Year” and the Romanian Alina Cojocaru is “Dancer of the Year”.
08/26
The British International Booker Literature Prize goes to the Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld.
Her novel “The Discomfort of Evening” (“What to sow”) tells of childhood in a strictly Christian family.
29-year-old Rijneveld is the youngest recipient to date.
08.09.
The Oscar Academy introduces diversity rules for the top category “Best Film”.
Applicants must meet at least two diversity criteria by 2024.
For example, an actress or an actor in an important role could belong to a minority.
12.09.
The US drama "Nomadland" wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
The Chinese-born director Chloé Zhao tells the story of a desperate woman who has lost everything.
09/21
The Czech-French writer Milan Kundera receives the Franz Kafka Literature Prize.
Kundera's life's work emerged from the spirit of Czech culture and enriched it extraordinarily, the international jury in Prague explained its decision.
03.10.
Unknown people smear dozens of objects with an oily liquid on Berlin's Museum Island, including sarcophagi and tablets.
The attack is not known until October 20th.
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08.10.
The American poet Louise Glück is honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The jury judged the poetic voice of the 77-year-old to be “unmistakable”.
11.10.
In Wolfenbüttel (Lower Saxony), the writer and publicist Ines Geipel receives the Lessing Prize for Criticism endowed with 20,000 euros.
The jury justified its decision that the GDR dissident had campaigned for the rehabilitation of authors in the GDR.
12.10.
The author Anne Weber wins this year's German Book Prize for her novel “Annette, a heroine epic”.
The book tells the life story of the French resistance fighter Anne Beaumanoir in verse.
14.10.
Live streams on the Internet instead of crowds between exhibition stands: Due to the corona pandemic, the Frankfurt Book Fair takes place almost exclusively online.
Until October 18, 4400 digital exhibitors from 110 countries will provide information.
28.10.
Julia von Heinz's political drama “And tomorrow the whole world” is Germany's entry for the Oscars in the “Best International Film” category.
It is about a student who is involved in left and anti-fascist circles.
11/08
The South Korean boy band BTS wins the most awards at the MTV Europe Music Awards.
Among the four trophies of the K-Pop band is the one in the category “Best Song” for their disco-pop song “Dynamite”.
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11/13
The ethnologist Carola Lentz is the new president of the Goethe-Institut.
Her predecessor, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, had held the honorary position since 2008.
The Goethe-Institut is represented by 157 institutes in 98 countries.
11/14
In the necropolis of Saqqara near Cairo, archaeologists have discovered more than 100 well-preserved sarcophagi from ancient Egyptian times.
The Egyptian minister of antiquity announced.
November 19
The British Booker Literature Prize goes to Scottish native Douglas Stuart for his novel "Shuggie Bain".
In it, the author tells of a childhood with an alcoholic mother in Glasgow in the 1980s.
11/30
Hervé Le Tellier receives France's most important literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for the novel "L'Anomalie".
The book is about a unique event that turns the lives of hundreds of airline passengers upside down.
07.12.
The US singer Bob Dylan has sold the rights to his songs to the world's largest music group Universal Music.
The folk rock pioneer is said to have received more than 300 million dollars for more than 600 titles such as “Blowin 'in the Wind”.
12.12.
The tragic comedy “Der Rausch” by Dane Thomas Vinterberg has received four awards at the European Film Awards, including best film.
Best actress is the German Paula Beer with her role in the love drama "Undine".
16.12.
The Humboldt Forum in the rebuilt Berlin Palace will open its doors, but only digitally for the time being.
Exhibits from the colonial era are controversial.
The cultural project cost 677 million euros over a construction period of seven years.
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