Graduate Jonas Stuckenbrock wins VES Award 2025
The Visual Effects Society (VES) presented the VES Awards on February 11, 2025. The award for Best Lighting Composition went to Merz Akademie graduate Jonas Stuckenbrock, Karen Chang, Eugene Bondar...
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Phoebe Ammon wins twice at the 2024 Screenplay Award
Graduate Phoebe Ammon wins the Jury Screenplay Prize and the Audience Award at the Schleswig-Holstein Screenplay Prize. “Der Tag gehört uns” is the name of Phoebe’s screenplay, which she entered...
ADC Bronze Nail for Xander Heller
Graduate Xander Heller wins a bronze ADC Nagel 2024 for his bachelor thesis “Latent Spaces” at the Merz Akademie – congratulations! Xander’s thesis deals with experimental typography from the cultivation...
Lecturer Victor Brigola awarded the “FEP Photo Book Prize”
Photography lecturer Victor Brigola wins the Federation of European Photographers’ Photo Book Award in the Monographs 2024 category. Congratulations to him! The idea for this book was born in the...
Absolvent Cem Kaya wird mit dem Grimme-Preis ausgezeichnet
Cem Kayas Film “Songs of Gastarbeiter – Liebe, D-Mark und Tod” gewinnt in der Kategorie “Information & Kultur” den Grimme-Preis 2024! Herzlichen Glückwunsch!!! Merz Akademie-Absolvent, Regisseur und Autor Cem Kaya...
Best Film, Best Director, Awards for graduate Phoebe Ammon at the “Blaue Blume Award” 2024
Best Director, Best Film for graduate Phoebe Ammon’s film “Long Night Stand” at the Blaue Blume Award! Congratulations! Romance TV hosted the BLAUE BLUME Award for the 13th time on...
Scholarships and incoming students in the winter semester 2023/24
We are happy about the numerous scholarships! International scholarships in winter semester 23/24 are awarded to students who spend a semester abroad at one of our partner universities or complete...
Professional Award at GIRLS GO MOVIE for graduate Iris Maier
Congratulations! Our graduate Iris Maier wins the Professional Award at the “GIRLS GO MOVIE” short film festival in Mannheim for her impressive bachelor’s degree film at the Merz Akademie “So...
Merz Bildungswerk Scholarship for Alejandro Bellegarrigue
Alejandro Bellegarrigue, who will start his studies at Merz Akademie in the winter semester 2023/24, will receive a Merz Bildungswerk scholarship. Since 2018, the Merz Bildungswerk Stidendium has been awarded...
Semiha Degirmenci receives a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Our student Semiha Degirmenci has received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation for students in the subjects of design / design / film. Congratulations! Semiha was nominated by...