Overview

• Around 550,000 students entered this year’s contest, with 16 state winners advancing to the live final at an RBB studio in Berlin.
• Uluçam secured victory with a three-minute reading from Deva Faga’s fantasy novel 'Game of Noctis – Spiel um dein Leben'.
• A four-person jury of audiobook director Angelika Schaack, KiKa host Tim Gailus, actor Rauand Taleb and last year’s champion Léni Falkenstein determined the winner.
• Her prize includes a reading session with a youth author at her Eckener-Gymnasium in Mariendorf.
• Established in 1959 to foster children’s reading skills, the competition was praised by Karin Schmidt-Friderichs for nurturing book enthusiasm at a time of declining literacy levels.