Jürgen Jürges, Kameramann

A Master of Light, honoured with the Honorary Award of the German Film Prize

The cinematographer Jürgen Jürges (born 1940) will be honoured in 2022 for outstanding services to German film. He will receive the honorary award at the German Film Awards ceremony on 24 June 2022 in Berlin. "Jürgen Jürges is a master of light," the German Film Academy enthuses about Jürges. "Through his unsurpassed empathy for characters and stories and his unique sense for moods and images, he has decisively shaped German film over more than five decades."
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