Overview
- The series took the Kids: Factual & Entertainment award at the 53rd International Emmys on November 24 in New York.
- Produced by Balance Film for MDR and WDR, the six roughly 15‑minute episodes are available to stream in the ARD Mediathek.
- Motion‑capture turns hosts Julian Janssen and Anna Shirin Habedank into animated avatars who explore everyday youth life in the late GDR with real witnesses.
- Author‑producer Ralf Kukula noted in his acceptance speech that he remembers the GDR’s final days, calling the recognition “absolutely unbelievable” 36 years later.
- Germany’s other nominee, ARD’s ‘Herrhausen – Der Herr des Geldes,’ lost TV Movie/Mini-Series to the BBC’s ‘Lost Boys & Fairies,’ in a year with broad British wins across 16 categories featuring 26 countries.