Monthly Archives: November 2005

Hamburg Animation Award 2005 – And the winner is…

… my brother Wolfram!
On Nov 3rd, the Hamburg Animation Award took place. Amond the 60 submissions and 10 nominations was the work “Bo” by my brother Wolfram (together with 4 other team members).

I did not know anything about the film in advance (not even the title) before watching it in Hamburg’s cinema “Streit’s”. However, I recognized it after the first 5 seconds as my brother’s style was easily recognizable.

I have to say, that it was really good and I was mightily impressed.

Apparently so was the jury: German actress Ulrike Grote announced the 1st place: “Bo”. I was totally stunned! WOW! Great work, Wolfram. I am really happy and proud!

It definitely deserves the prize (although the choice was hard, and the second-priced film “Delivery” was also amazing), and I am looking forward seeing this film on TV or as a pre-film in the movies in some time!

There is an article (German) in the Hamburger Abendblatt. From there you can also download a “small” version of the film (direct link here (50MB)). I recommend watching it (and that has nothing to do with being his brother).

P.S. Is the character’s “voice” really my brother’s?
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