DW awarded at New York Festivals

The Strange World of max x., a Euromaxx series on DW, received gold at the New York Festivals. The quirky protagonist max x., played by British filmmaker David Packer, is a hapless hero, wrestling with the pitfalls and challenges of technology and modern life in his daily struggle for survival.  Last November, the series already won an Award of Excellence and an Award of Merit in the category Comedy Series at the Accolade Competition in California.

Difficult Past – A School and its Dark Nazi History, a segment in DW’s People and Politics series, was awarded bronze at the New York Festivals. An effort to understand and work through the trauma of the Holocaust is at the heart of the television production by DW journalist Alexander Feist. It traces the fate of Jewish students from the Friedrich Eugens Gymnasium, a German secondary school, during the Holocaust. Heinz Stern, a former student now residing in Israel, recounts his experiences nearly eight decades later.