Overview
- NDR 2 won Best Morning Show for “Der NDR 2 Morgen mit Elke und Jens,” with the jury praising its balance of good humor and journalistic rigor.
- EgoFM’s “Hoffmann & Kollmann Radioshow” took Best Show, with further awards to WDR 5 (Best Interview), Radio FFN (Best Information Format), MDR Aktuell (Best Reportage), Maren Brand of Antenne Thüringen (Best Newcomer), Heiner Knapp of RBB 88.8 (Best Music Format) and Amy Scheske of Delta Radio (Best Presenter).
- Radio PSR’s Henry Nowak and Steffen Lukas won Best Entertainment for “Sing meinen Job!,” which the Grimme jury lauded as warmhearted, pointed and musically inventive tributes to everyday professions.
- Toggo Radio earned Best Program Action for “Toggo Radio gibt dir eine Stimme,” with jurors highlighting its effective encouragement of political participation among children in the week before the Bundestagswahl.
- Around 1,000 guests attended as 58 public and private stations carried the gala live and online streams ran alongside performances by Amy Macdonald, the Sugababes, Nina Chuba, Bosse’s world premiere of “Peu à Peu,” and a first-time duet by Ásdís with surprise guest Michael Schulte.