{"id":33436,"date":"2026-03-05T12:44:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/?p=33436"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:45:31","slug":"cologne-will-host-the-german-entertainment-award-2026-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/2026\/03\/05\/koeln-wird-buehne-deutscher-entertainment-award-2026-im-juni\/","title":{"rendered":"Cologne becomes the stage: German Entertainment Award 2026 in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"33436\" class=\"elementor elementor-33436\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-eb8271d elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default creativo-sticky-disabled\" data-id=\"eb8271d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;enable_creativo_sticky&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6bbcb817\" data-id=\"6bbcb817\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74b76af4 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"74b76af4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p data-start=\"200\" data-end=\"566\">This year's edition of the <strong data-start=\"228\" data-end=\"262\">German Entertainment Awards<\/strong> (DEA) is in the starting blocks: The Entertainment Section of the Production Alliance has opened the submission period for the industry award. Until <strong data-start=\"419\" data-end=\"436\">25 March 2026<\/strong> production companies and creatives can submit their entries for the awards.<\/p><p data-start=\"568\" data-end=\"798\">The award ceremony is scheduled for <strong data-start=\"600\" data-end=\"625\">18 June 2026 in Cologne<\/strong> has been announced. The DEA is being awarded for the fifth time and is aimed at producers of non-fictional entertainment formats.<\/p><p data-start=\"800\" data-end=\"1270\">This year, the categories have been expanded: In addition to the established prizes <strong data-start=\"878\" data-end=\"898\">Best Development<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"903\" data-end=\"922\">Best Adaptation<\/strong> the <strong data-start=\"941\" data-end=\"966\">Best Short Form Award<\/strong> which honours the best short-format entertainment format (under 15 minutes per episode). In addition, the <strong data-start=\"1093\" data-end=\"1118\">VFF Best Talent Award<\/strong> The award is divided into the areas of editing and production in order to recognise young talent in both disciplines separately.<\/p><p data-start=\"1272\" data-end=\"1475\">In addition, another <strong data-start=\"1294\" data-end=\"1323\">Entertainment special price<\/strong> donated by the <strong data-start=\"1352\" data-end=\"1384\">Film- und Medienstiftung NRW<\/strong>which additionally honours an outstanding format.<\/p><p data-start=\"1477\" data-end=\"1741\">A ten-member committee chaired by Rolf Hellgardt (Prime Productions) decides on the award. In addition to Hellgardt, the committee includes representatives from various production companies and content agencies.<\/p><p data-start=\"1743\" data-end=\"1934\">Further information on the submission procedure and the event can be found on the official website of the German Entertainment Awards.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f80f46 e-flex e-con-boxed creativo-sticky-disabled e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6f80f46\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;enable_creativo_sticky&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27580de elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"27580de\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/produktionsallianz.de\/deutscher-entertainment-award-2026-am-18-juni-in-koeln-einreichungszeitraum-vom-3-bis-25-maerz-2026\/\">To the press release<\/a><\/h3><h5>\u00a0<\/h5><h5>Picture: \u00a9 Paxabay<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die diesj\u00e4hrige Ausgabe des Deutschen Entertainment Awards (DEA) steht in den Startl\u00f6chern: Die Sektion Entertainment der Produktionsallianz hat den Einreichungszeitraum f\u00fcr den Branchenpreis er\u00f6ffnet. Noch bis zum 25.\u202fM\u00e4rz 2026 k\u00f6nnen&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":33437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-minimal.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[51,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-filmwirtschaft","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33441,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436\/revisions\/33441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}