With the Manfred Stelzer Young Talent Prize for film comedies, we celebrate laughter – and at the same time ask the question: why do some things we found funny years ago now seem merely silly to us?
The evening begins with a screening of the documentary ›Was haben wir gelacht‹ (D 2026), which places humor in relation to social conditions and asks why laughing at the expense of women was so ubiquitous on television in the 1990s and 2000s. In the discussion that follows, Maren Kroymann and the filmmakers Eva Müller and Isabel Schneider provide answers.
The evening is hosted by film journalist and author Jenni Zylka.