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39-505: The Grimme-Preis (" Grimme Award "; prior to 2011: Adolf-Grimme-Preis ) is one of the most prestigious German television awards. It is named after the first general director of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk , Adolf Grimme . It has been referred to in Kino magazine as the "German TV Oscar". The awards ceremony takes place annually at Theater Marl in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia , and is hosted by

78-462: A committee of inquiry into broadcasting , chaired by the industrialist Sir Harry Pilkington . Greene pressed the BBC's case, arguing that the interests outside television of the commercial franchise holders constituted a conflict of loyalties with their public service obligations, and that the quality of programmes from commercial television was greatly inferior to that of the BBC's. The committee's report

117-579: A charter on the lines of the BBC. In 1948, the station was handed over to the German authorities and Greene returned to England. He was appointed head of the BBC's eastern European service in 1949, just before the Russians began to jam its broadcasts. In 1950, he was again seconded for government service, this time as head of emergency information services for the Federation of Malaya , helping to combat

156-479: A failed escape from the German Democratic Republic . Rainer Werner Fassbinder received an honorable mention in 1974 for his film World on a Wire . Since then, German veteran director Dominik Graf has received 10 awards for his various films. Danish director Lars von Trier was awarded a Grimme-Preis in 1996 for his miniseries The Kingdom . Director Christian Petzold has been awarded

195-831: A journalist. He worked in Munich for two British publications, the Daily Herald and the New Statesman , and in 1934 he joined the Berlin office of The Daily Telegraph , becoming its chief correspondent in 1938. The writer of his entry in the Dictionary of National Biography , Colin Shaw, comments that Greene's direct witnessing of the Nazis deeply influenced him for the rest of his life, "teaching him to hate intolerance and

234-538: A new standard for television arts programmes. Greene was more frank in private: We are going to use this organisation to change the way the rest of the country thinks. We want them to see stuff they don’t like. We don’t really care if they complain. Although under Greene's leadership the BBC caught up with and overtook commercial television in popularity among the British public as a whole, there were dissenting voices. Harold Wilson , who became prime minister in 1964,

273-480: A novel in which Hitler awakens in the 21st century and becomes a comedian, the Grimme Prize is awarded to Hitler. Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk On 1 January 1956, NWDR was succeeded by Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). Broadcasting in what was to become NWDR's post-war transmission area was initiated in the early 1920s: From 1934 the north German station operated, under

312-476: The military junta that ruled Greece after the coup of 1967. After civilian rule was reestablished, Greene was adviser to the Greek government on the constitution of broadcasting. Greene was married four times. In October 1934, he married Helga Mary (b. 1916), the daughter of Samuel Guinness, a banker, of London. They had two sons; the couple divorced in 1948. In September 1951, he married Elaine Shaplen (b. 1920),

351-420: The 1930s, Greene spent most of his later career with the BBC, rising through the managerial ranks of overseas broadcasting and then news for the main domestic channels. He encountered opposition from some politicians and activists opposed to his modernising agenda, but under his leadership the BBC was recognised to be outperforming its commercial rival, ITV , and was awarded a second television channel ( BBC 2 ) by

390-677: The British Establishment would never be seen in the same light. ... Viewers enjoyed the portrayal of a new breed of gritty policemen in Z-Cars (1962), wept at the plight of the homeless in The Wednesday Play , Cathy Come Home (1966) and were riveted by Doctor Who (1963), Top of the Pops (1964), Horizon (1964), Tomorrow's World (1965) and Dr Kildare , all attracting large audiences. ... Omnibus set

429-746: The British Zone. The army unit allocated to run the station was part of REME Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and its commander was Lt Col Paul Archibald Findlay. The forerunner organization of the Federal Intelligence Service, the Gehlen Organization , infiltrated several agents into the NWDR during the Cold War in order to keep alleged enemies of the state in the station under control. One of these agents

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468-568: The British government and authorised to introduce colour television to Britain. After retiring from the BBC, Greene published several books, including a collaboration with his brother, the novelist Graham Greene , and made television programmes both for the BBC and ITV. Greene was born on 15 November 1910 in Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire, the youngest of four sons and the fifth of the six children of Charles Henry Greene, headmaster of Berkhamsted School , and his wife (and cousin), Marion Raymond,

507-571: The Grimme-Institut. Since 1964, it awards productions "that use the specific possibilities of the medium of television in an extraordinary manner and at the same time can serve as examples regarding content and method". The award was endowed by the German Community College association. One of the first award winners was Gerd Oelschlegel  [ de ] in 1964, for his TV movie Sonderurlaub ("Special Leave"), about

546-456: The NWDR had three radio stations: NWDR was also the most active participant in ARD's Das Erste , the joint German public television service. Hugh Carleton Greene Sir Hugh Carleton Greene KCMG OBE (15 November 1910 – 19 February 1987) was a British television executive and journalist. He was director-general of the BBC from 1960 to 1969. After working for newspapers in

585-716: The Netherlands, Belgium and finally France, returning to Britain in June 1940, narrowly escaping the German army's arrival in Paris. After a few months in the Royal Air Force as a pilot officer in intelligence, he was released to join the BBC German Service , becoming its news editor. Throughout the war, the BBC remained committed to impartial and accurate reporting to enemy-occupied territories. In 1940, Greene

624-619: The daughter of Louis Gilbert, an accountant, of New York. They had two sons, and divorced in 1969. In May 1970, Greene married the German actress Tatjana Sais (1910–1981); they had lived together in the late 1940s. She died in 1981, and in December 1984, he married Sarah Mary Manning Grahame (b. 1941), a script supervisor from Australia. There were no children of the third and fourth marriages. Greene died from cancer in King Edward VII's Hospital , London, on 19 February 1987. Greene

663-779: The daughter of the Rev Carleton Greene, vicar of Great Barford , with his mother being a cousin of the Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson . Among the couple's other children were Graham Greene , the novelist, and Raymond Greene , a Doctor of Medicine and a mountaineer. Greene was educated at Berkhamsted School and at Merton College, Oxford , where he obtained a second class in classical moderations (1931) and English (1933). Before his undergraduate years at Merton, Greene had spent some time in Germany and, after graduating, he returned there, beginning his career as

702-573: The degradation of character to which the loss of freedom led". He was expelled from Germany in May 1939 in reprisal for the expulsion from London of a journalist and Nazi agent, Rudolf Rösel. The Daily Telegraph sent Greene to Warsaw but his time there was brief. In September 1939, the Germans invaded Poland and he was forced to leave. As the war spread in Europe he reported from Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey,

741-438: The efforts of communist insurgents. Among his assistants was the future prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kwan Yew , who became a close friend. On his return to London, Greene resumed his work at the BBC. First, in 1952, as assistant controller of overseas services, and then, in 1955, as controller. In 1956, Sir Norman Bottomley , director of administration and deputy to the director-general, Sir Ian Jacob , retired. Greene

780-521: The headquarters of the German army, OKW , over local cable radio and announced the death of Adolf Hitler to the German people on 1 May 1945. All radio broadcasting ceased at the end of World War II and implementation of the Allied occupation of Germany . In the British Zone of occupation, the military authorities quickly established a station known as "Radio Hamburg" to provide information to

819-655: The latter proposed that Greene should become a member of the BBC's board of governors. He did so, and served for two years before resigning, feeling that his presence was inhibiting his successor. After he left the post of director general, Greene made some programmes for the BBC and also – causing some disapproval at the BBC – for ITV. He edited several collections of stories about the rivals of Sherlock Holmes , collaborated with his brother Graham on Victorian Villanies (1984) and became chairman of Bodley Head , his brother's publisher. His lifelong hatred of totalitarianism and dictatorship led him to be active in campaigning against

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858-662: The morale of the civilian population of the United Kingdom. Its most famous wartime broadcaster in English was William Joyce (popularly known, from his accent and speaking-manner, as " Lord Haw-Haw "). The Reichssender Hamburg was the last short-wave station to remain on the air in wartime Germany. Its substation in Flensburg , known as the Reichssender Flensburg, broadcast the last announcements from

897-614: The name of Reichssender Hamburg, as an integral part of the national broadcasting organization RRG – now controlled by Joseph Goebbels 's Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and known from 1 January 1939 as Großdeutscher Rundfunk. Externally , the Reichssender Hamburg transmitted propaganda material to listeners overseas – in particular to those living in the British Isles – and, during World War II , broadcast regular programming aimed at sapping

936-405: The need arose, of dealing expeditiously with those editorial issues that were referred to him". As director-general he led a modernisation of the BBC, increasing its audience after the creation of a rival commercial ITV television network (the first contractors were on air from September 1955) which had become much more popular than the BBC. Soon after Greene's appointment, the government set up

975-566: The population of the area. On 4 May 1945, transmission started with the announcement: "This is Radio Hamburg, a station of the Allied Military Government". The British Control Commission appointed Hugh Carleton Greene , on secondment from the BBC , to manage the creation of public service broadcasting in their Zone. On 22 September 1945, Radio Hamburg became Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR), the single broadcasting organisation of

1014-711: The prize twice, for his films Wolfsburg and Something to Remind Me . In 2016, the series Deutschland 83 was one of the four recipients in the principal "fiction" category. The TV series Dark became in 2018 the first Netflix series to receive the award. In addition to the Grimme Award, the Grimme Institute also awards the Grimme Online Award and the German Radio Award ( de ). In Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes ,

1053-413: The reforms introduced by Greene was the abandonment of a restrictive and bureaucratic system for covering party politics. Before the 1959 general election he announced, "We are going to cover the election, nationally and locally, like any other news story – on the basis of news value", putting the BBC on a similar basis to ITN and the press. Greene's appointment to succeed Jacob was announced in 1959. It

1092-523: The regulation of broadcasting. North Rhine-Westphalia decided to establish its own broadcaster, whilst Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein continued with the existing system. To this end, the NWDR was split into two broadcasters - Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in the north and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in North Rhine-Westphalia. NDR continued to operate out of Hamburg, whilst the WDR

1131-473: The whole board of management of the BBC would resign with him, leaving the corporation "at the mercy of its new master" as one colleague put it. Greene and Hill established a working relationship that was uneasy but viable. Nonetheless, after a year Greene began to look forward to retirement. After more than eight years in post, he left in March 1969. To make it clear that the decision was his, rather than Hill's,

1170-528: Was August Hoppe , editor from 1948 and later deputy editor-in-chief. According to documents from the BND archive, the NWDR was classified as a “threat to the development of a healthy Western democracy” at the time. Half of the top management is very open to Moscow, especially the general director Adolf Grimme and the reporter Peter von Zahn . In February 1955, the Länder of the NWDR's area decided to look again at

1209-481: Was "to secure overall co-ordination and editorial direction of topical output in both radio and television". In this role Greene encountered resistance to modernisation by key figures in the BBC news division, headed by Tahu Hole . The commercial Independent Television News (ITN), launched in 1955 was strongly outperforming the BBC in innovation, flair and audience numbers. Jacob backed Greene's modernising approach, and moved Hole to be director of administration. Among

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1248-836: Was appointed OBE in 1950 and knighted ( KCMG ) in 1964. He received honorary degrees from the University of East Anglia , the University of York and the Open University . The West German government awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit in 1977. In 1985 he received the Eduard Rhein Ring of Honour from the German Eduard Rhein Foundation for outstanding work related to the promotion of scientific research and of learning,

1287-449: Was appointed to succeed him; Shaw comments that this temporarily distanced him from any direct involvement with programmes, but clearly identified him as the potential successor to Jacob, who was due to retire in 1959. After two years Greene was appointed to a newly-created post – director of news and current affairs. It was established in the wake of television's rise to overtake radio as the dominant broadcasting medium, and Greene's brief

1326-494: Was established in Cologne . The split was effective from 1 January 1956, although the station NWDR1 remained a joint operation with regional opt-outs. The NWDR television service also remained a joint operation, from 1 April 1956 under the name Nord- und Westdeutscher Rundfunkverband (North and West German Broadcasting Federation - NWRV). The NDR and the WDR launched separate television services for their area in 1961. In 1955,

1365-539: Was harder to ignore. When the chairman of the BBC, Lord Normanbrook , died in 1967, his successor Lord Hill (hitherto chairman of the BBC's rival, the Independent Television Authority ) was appointed reportedly at Wilson's request. Greene at that time held Hill in contempt. If, as was suspected at the time, Wilson's motive was to provoke Greene into resigning, the ploy almost succeeded, but Greene's advisers convinced him that if he resigned

1404-489: Was highly favourable to Greene and the BBC, and despite pressure from the commercial television lobby, the government awarded the BBC the proposed third channel and introduction of colour television. In a short history of the corporation, the BBC says of Greene's tenure, "he encouraged programme-makers to reflect the social changes and attitudes of the Sixties": After the arrival of That Was The Week That Was in 1962 ...

1443-477: Was less tolerant than his predecessors of the BBC's satire and lack of deference, and Mary Whitehouse , a campaigner who described herself as "an evangelical Christian and moral crusader", accused Greene of being "the devil incarnate" for allowing the broadcast of dramas with sexual content or bad language. Greene ignored Whitehouse's protestations and commissioned a painting of her naked with five breasts for his office which he threw darts at. Wilson's hostility

1482-467: Was one of the first to undergo security clearance vetting by MI5 while working at the BBC, for MI5 suspected him to be a communist. At the end of the war the British government asked Greene to return to Germany as controller of broadcasting in the British-occupied zone . He established a peacetime radio service, Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk , served as its first director-general and gave it

1521-564: Was received with widespread approval by BBC staff, partly because Greene was the first director-general to have risen through the ranks of BBC management, and partly because his transformation of news and current affairs coverage had impressed the programme makers and made them feel valued as they had not felt previously. He assumed the post on 1 January 1960. Early on, Greene abolished the position of director of news and current affairs, and appointed himself editor-in-chief. In that capacity, Shaw writes, he remained "a working journalist capable, when

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