GERMAN JAZZ PRIZE

Jazz from Germany is globally respected and more than ever at the cutting edge of our time: its performers live and convey cultural diversity on stage and in teaching, in cultural management as well as in record production. Artists in jazz and improvised music are highly mobile, forming networks and developing new concepts and formats for performance, recording and distribution. In order to honour this power of innovation in all its facets, Prof. Monika Grütters, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), has initiated the Deutscher Jazzpreis. The prize was awarded for the first time on June 3, 2021 and is intended to establish itself as an annually recurring event.

Objectives of the German Jazz Prize:

• presentation and preservation of the diverse jazz scene in Germany
• recognition and strengthening of exceptional artistic and innovative creativity and achievements in national and international jazz
• expansion of the worldwide appeal of jazz from Germany
• stronger anchoring of the art form jazz in society
• visible support for jazz professionals, on the one hand, through public attention during the award ceremony and, on the other hand, through the award of appropriately funded prizes

German Jazz Prize: Award Show and Winners 2022

^{Please note: Deutscher Jazzpreis of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media has no connection, either in terms of organisation or content, with Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis of IG Jazz Rhein-Neckar e.V., which is awarded once a year in Mannheim as the audience prize of the German jazz scene. Further information on Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis can be found at www.ig-jazz.de/neuer-deutscher-jazzpreis/}