Since the fall of the “Echo” in 2018, the position of a central music award in Germany has been orphaned. Nothing that would be comparable to the position of the “Grammys”, the “Brit Awards” or even the “Amadeus” in Austria. There is a bubbling diversity, from the “Eins Live Krone” to the “Popnrw” price. You could also call it fragmentation. The new “polyton” of the Pop Music Academy wants to be hip and trendy, but looks a bit flush and puzzling in appearance. The “price of pop culture” in turn was gone and is now returning reformed on April 23, 2025. On a new one in the colorful Award Republic.
Gema boss Tobias Holzmüller is now thinking in this canon about the prestigious award of the recycling company, which was awarded last night (February 27th) in the Berlin Hotel Ritz Carlton. Internally, it was considered to make the “German music author: inner price” that existed since 2009, for example, greater and more popular through a TV cooperation. More visible in the diverse German Award landscape.
Professional choreographed review with show band and stage bar
However, according to Holzmüller, these business games were rejected and so the “DMAP” increases as part of a relaxed industry meeting. Salon-Atmo with around 300 guests in the illustrious framework. You sit at numbered tables and live a professionally choreographed revue with a show band and stage bar. 23 nominated compete for 11 trophies made of solid metal. Moderator Nina “Fiva” Sonnenberg succeeds in appreciating very different artists’ and artist vitae in a reasonable mix of serious and relaxed from the stool.
Finally, the “DMAP” reflects avant-garde like Mega-Minterram. An adventurous spectrum that is so wanted and is therefore only limited to a limited extent; apart from 3sat in the evening at 11 p.m.
Bows before the professional world
Awards such as “Composition Audiovisual Media” to Stefan Will, “Composition Electronic Music/Live Elektronik Plus” to Christina Kubisch or “Composition Orchestra” to the Korean-German classic Unsuk Chin are bowed from the professional world. On the other hand, Ruhrpott-Jlo Ayliva stands with her song “Wunder” (together with Apache 207); the “most successful work 2024”. Or the very amusing copywriter of the hit guild (winner: Robin Haefs), who now easily combine their work for Helene Fischer and Co with their background in the hip-hop scene.
Of course, the almost complete dead trousers, who were able to receive the special “Inspiration” price, were of course for headlight light on the red carpet. Laudated by Lemonbabies boss Diane Weigmann was kampino at the speaker was kept blazed the flame of the punk rock. “If we are here at such a GEMA event, as as a graved graves of the ‘echo’, he put a bridge into yesterday. Later at the bar he was not so sure what concrete influence the pants would take on today’s offspring. Because of inspiration. However, he is not concerned with the care of rumpeled guitar music, but rather a fundamental attitude. Just get rid of it, with a resistant spirit …
“We come to the next category via the punk …” it said. And with ski AGGU, Paula Hartmann and Songwriter Tom Hengelbrock, it was another (hip-hop) mentality world, which also adverse the pants-like aura of the “do it yourself”. Only aesthetic and pop-politically very different. More individualistic.
German Music Autors Prize 2025 at the Hotel Ritz Carlton in Berlin on February 27th, 2025
The spacious spectrum was finally diverse when the 88-year-old Wolf Biermann (“Lebenswerk”), Lauda, reminded of his music in times of the GDR (dictatorship). And how he first went out of creative strength when he was grown to the west in the mid -1970s. “I lacked the beloved mortal enemies. The muses no longer kissed me … ”said it and once again reached the beloved acoustic guitar.
In the overall picture, it is good that the “Music Author Prize” does not have to compromise on a larger media or event recycling. He remains small and fine and can stay with himself.
The awards
- Composition Audiovisual Media: Stefan Will
- Composition of electronic music: Christina Kubisch
- Composition Musical: Dennis Martin
- Composition Orchestra: unsuk chin
- Composition Rock/Pop: AnnenMayKantereit (Christopher Annen, Henning May, Severin Kantereit)
- Text HipHop: Paula Hartmann
- Text hit: Robin Haefs
- Life work: Wolf Biermann
- Young talent (endowed with 10,000 euros each): Felix Dautzenberg (Berq) in the “U-Musik” division, Sara Glojnarić in the “E-Music” division
- Special Prize Inspiration: Die Toten Hosen (Andreas Frege, Michael Breitkopf, Andreas Meurer, Andreas von Holst, vom Ritchie)
- The most successful work 2024: “Miracle” by Ayliva, Apache 207, with Berken “Berky” Dogan, Oliver Melchers and Thomas “Masri” Riese