The Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German Television Award) is a German award for television programming, created in 1999 by German television channels Das Erste

Das Erste

Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen , marketed as Das Erste , is the principal publicly owned television channel in Germany...

, ZDF

ZDF

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...

, RTL

RTL Television

Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...

 and Sat.1

Sat.1

Sat.1 is a privately owned German television broadcasting station. Sat.1 was the first privately owned television broadcasting station in Germany, having started one day before RTL Television....

. It was created as a equivalent to the Emmy Awards though it is not organized by an academy and is awarded annually in September or October. The Fernsehpreis is the successor to both the Telestar

Telestar

The Telestar was a former German television award, created by Das Erste and ZDF. It was succeeded in 1999 by the Deutscher Fernsehpreis....

 (Das Erste and ZDF) and the Goldener Löwe (RTL) awards.

History

The first award

Award

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 took place on October 2, 1999 in Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

. Every year another of the participating stations broadcast the ceremony

Ceremony

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:

Year	Station	Presentation
1999	RTL RTL Television Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...	Jochen Busse Jochen Busse Jochen Busse is a German television actor.He began work as a stage actor at the Kammerspiele in Munich in 1960 and made his TV debut the same year. He has made 80 appearances in television since 1960. In 1993 he appeared in the Austrian set comedy series Hochwürden erbt das Paradies‎... , Johannes B. Kerner Johannes B. Kerner Johannes Baptist Kerner is a German TV personality best known as a sportscaster.Kerner was raised in Hersel, Germany in a Catholic household... , Gabi Bauer Gabi Bauer Gabi Bauer is a German journalist and television presenter.- Life :Bauer studied politics, pedagogic and philosophy in Hamburg, Hannover, Grenoble and Kalamazoo. She works for German broadcaster ARD in Tagesthemen. She is married with journalist Ulrich Exner...  und Kai Pflaume Kai Pflaume Kai Pflaume is a German television presenter.- Life :Pflaume presented from 1993 to 2011 television show Nur die Liebe zählt...
2000	ZDF ZDF Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...	Ulla Kock am Brink Ulla Kock am Brink Ulla Kock am Brink is a German television presenter.- Life :From 1981 to 1984, Kock am Brink studied German studies, Spanish studies and Social sciences at university in Bonn...
2001	Sat.1 Sat.1 Sat.1 is a privately owned German television broadcasting station. Sat.1 was the first privately owned television broadcasting station in Germany, having started one day before RTL Television....	Anke Engelke Anke Engelke Anke Christina Fischer is a German comedian, actress and voice-over actress born in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.Engelke moved to Cologne in 1971 with her parents...  und Hape Kerkeling Hape Kerkeling Hans Peter Wilhelm "Hape" Kerkeling is a well-known German actor, presenter and comedian.-Career:At secondary school in Recklinghausen, Hape Kerkeling and some fellow students formed a band and published a record .Kerkeling started his career as a comedian in radio, working for various German...
2002	ARD ARD Ard, ARD, Ards or ARDS may refer to:Ard:*Ard or scratch-plough, a type of plough consisting of a simple spike dragged through the soil*Ard, alternate name of Arad, Iran, a city in Fars Province...	Sandra Maischberger Sandra Maischberger Sandra Maischberger is a German journalist, talk show host, and author. She is the sister of German archeologist Martin Maischberger....  und Dirk Bach Dirk Bach Dirk Bach is a German television comedy actor, best known as Pepe in the German version of Sesamstraße and as an actor in television series Lukas.-Life:...
2003	RTL	Günther Jauch Günther Jauch Günther Johannes Jauch is a German television host. He is a member of the Hamburg Jauch family, but currently lives in Potsdam, Brandenburg with his wife Thea Jauch and his four children.- Biography :...
2004	ZDF	Thomas Gottschalk Thomas Gottschalk Thomas Johannes Gottschalk is a German TV host. He is best-known for hosting the popular show Wetten, dass..?, which he has led to a huge success in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol.-Early life:...
2005	Sat.1	Anke Engelke und Hugo Egon Balder Hugo Egon Balder Hugo Egon Balder is a German actor and comedian. He was born 22 March 1950 in Berlin to Egon Friedrich Balder and Gerda Balder, née Schure . Gerda Balder was a Jew who, together with her mother and her son from her first marriage, survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp.Balder was a...
2006	ARD	Jörg Pilawa Jörg Pilawa Jörg Pilawa is a German television presenter.-Life:Pilawa studied after his school at Gymnasium Hummelsbüttel first medicine and then history, but he did not finish his university studies. From 1987 to 1994 Pilawa worked for Radio Schleswig-Holstein...
2007	RTL	Marco Schreyl Marco Schreyl Marco Schreyl is a German television and radio host.- Television career :In 1997, Schreyl began his television host career at MDR television...
2008	ZDF	Thomas Gottschalk
2009	Sat.1	Anke Engelke und Bastian Pastewka Bastian Pastewka Bastian Pastewka is a German actor and comedian.He first became known to a wider audience in Germany around 1996 as a regular cast member of the comedy show Die Wochenshow , essentially a mock news program...
2010	ARD	Sandra Maischberger und Kurt Krömer Kurt Krömer Kurt Krömer is a German television presenter, comedian and actor.- Life :Krömer works as actor and comedian in German television and film. In the years from 2003 to 2005 rbb broadcasted the Kurt Krömer Show, which attracted nationwide attention, that was successor format Bei Krömers for German...
2011	RTL	Marco Schreyl und Nazan Eckes Nazan Eckes Nazan Eckes is a German television personality of Turkish descent at the German television channel RTL.-Professional career:...