Festival 2019

With around 30 German and world premieres, numerous celebrity guests and over 6,500 visitors, Germany's largest series festival impressively lived up to its reputation as the German epicenter of the series boom.

The audience festival attracted more visitors than ever before over the weekend with free screenings of over 40 series from 21 countries. Productions from the two main sponsors MagentaTV (GODFATHER OF HARLEM, WASTELANDS) and Amazon Prime Video (THE EXPANSE, TOM CLANCY'S JACK RYAN), among others, as well as an international selection of series such as FOOD LORE, THE NEW POPE, ZEROZEROZERO, AMERICAN HORROR STORY: 1984, PURE, THE CAPTURE and DUBLIN MURDERS could be seen in world or German premieres during the Seriencamp Festival. German productions like HINDAFING, DIGNITY and RAMPENSAU also thrilled the audience. Numerous prominent guests presented their productions in person. Among others the complete HINDAFING crew with the two main actors Maximilian Brückner and Andreas Giebel, the THE EXPANSE authors S. A. Corey, the Rocket Beans Youtubers Daniel Schröckert and Donnie O'Sullivan as well as the MEIBERGER actor Fritz Karl were on site.

The jury prize for OFFICIAL COMPETITION, awarded by a prominent jury around actor Tom Beck ("You Are Wanted"), screenwriter Jana Burbach ("Bad Banks") and  journalists Vanessa Schneider (BR) and Benedikt Frank (SZ), went to the Italian Sky original ZEROZEROZERO by Stefano Sollima. The prize for Best Web Series went to the French documentary production LOST IN TRAPLANTA, which can already be found in the Arte media library. During the three days of the festival, the audience was also able to vote for their favorite: Here, the series BEFOREIGNERS from Norway was able to achieve the highest score.