Winners by year

2023

Documentary

Denmark/Nanna Hauge Kristensen - The Heart shaped

Author, director: Nanna Hauge Kristensen

Producer: Nanna Hauge Kristensen with support from The EGV Foundation

Drama

Switzerland/SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen 2022 - The imaginary mask

Authors: Wolfram Hoell und Johannes Mayr

Director: Ulrich Bassenge

Producer: Wolfram Hoell

Short Form

Portugal/Sofia Saldanha (1975-2022) - Lilith's lists

Author, director: Sofia Saldanha

Producer: Sofia Saldanha for the spoken word project Estilhaços

2022

Documentary

UK / Falling Tree Productions - A MOTHER TONGUE

AUTHOR / PRODUCER/ DIRECTOR: Axel Kacoutié

Drama

Germany /Austria / Hessisher Rundfunk /ORF- XERXES

AUTHOR: MagdaWoitzuck, DIRECTOR: Peter Kaizar

Short Forms

UK / Falling Tree Productions - THANKS FOR YOUR LETTER

AUTHOR: Joe Dunthorne, PRODUCER / DIRECTOR: Eleanor McDowall

2021

Documentary

Croatia/HRT - The Day I Shall Not Forget for the Rest of my Life

AUTHOR: Đino Đivanović; PRODUCER: Nikica Klobučar; SOUND ENGINEER: Srđan Nogić; MUSIC COMPOSER: Maro Market; OTHER KEY STAFF: Mia Anočić (Actress)

Drama

Austria / ORF – Woyzeck

AUTHOR: Georg Büchner; PRODUCER / DIRECTOR / SOUND ENGINEER: Stefan Weber; OTHER KEY STAFF: Markus Meyer, Katrin Thurm, W.Hübsch

Short Forms

Ireland / RTÉ lyric fm – Correspondences

AUTHOR: Charles Baudelaire; PRODUCERS: Aodán Ó’Dubhghaill, Bernard Clarke; DIRECTOR: Bernard Clarke; SOUND ENGINEER: Bernard Clarke; OTHER KEY STAFF: Liz Nolan

2020

The festival was canceled due to the COVID pandemic.

2019

Drama

BYZANTINE SOAP OPERA, Author: Jasna Mesarić, producer: Katja Šimunić, sound ingineers: Marija PečnikKvesić, Marijana Begović. (Croatia/ HRT Croatian Radio)

Documentary

CONSENT – Walk the Walk - (Descent into the Maelstrom), Authors: Chris Brookes and Emily Deming (Canada/Battery Radio) 

Short forms

ORFEU’S JOURNEY Author: Madallin Cristescu, director: Atilla Vizauer, producer: Oana Grogorescu (Romania/Radio Romania)

Special achievement award

ENIAC Girls, Author: Udo Moll. (Germany/Deutschlandfunk Kultur)

2018

Drama

EXPLOSIVE Author: Elise Wilk; Producer: Attila Vizauer; Director, sound engineer: Mihnea Chelaru. (Romanian Radio)

Documentary

WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND, Author, producer, director, sound engineer: Neil Sandell; Editor: Julia Barton; Commissioning producer: Meredith Johnson (Canada)

Short Forms

PERUN'S STONES, Author: Irena Plejić Premec; Producer: Adriana Kramarić; Sound engineer: Hrvoje Hanzec (HRT_Croatian Radio)

2017

Drama

RTE, Ireland - Bernard Clarke: Terrible Beauty

Documentary

Falling Tree Productions, UK - Cicely Fell and Charles Maynes: Looping Swans

Short Form

Rikke Houd, Denmark - Rikke Houd: The Kayakman

2016

Drama

BBC, UK - Linda Marshall: Orpheus and Eurydice

Documentary

ABC, Australia - Karen Werner: Laws of lost and found objects

Short Form

CROATIA, HRT - Marija Pečnik Kvesić: 1914 and beyond

Special Achievement in Radiophony FOR USE OF NEW MEDIA  

Chris Brookes/Battery Radio: The Bannerman Quartet (drama) 

2015

Drama

DEUTSCHLANDFUNK, Germany - Hans Block: Don Don Don Quijote - Attackeee

Documentary

DEUTSCHLANDFUNK, Germany - Malgorzata Zerwe, David Zane Mairowitz: Kafka Unchained

Short Form

RTR – RADIO RUSSIA - Dmitry Nikolaev: Happy Birthday, Darling!

Special Achievement in Radiophony

Cantus Appium (Song of Bees - 7 variations after Vergilius for voice and 15 bee-colonies) by Goetz Naleppa

2014

Drama

WDR, Germany - Clemens Schönborn: The Lady of Camellias

Documentary

POLSKIE RADIO LUBLIN AND DEUTSCHLANDFUNK - Kasia Michalak: The Golden Boy

Short Form

YLE - Finnish Radio Broadcasting Company - Taina Riikonen: A Painful Embrace

2013

Drama

DEUTSCHLANDFUNK - Werner Fritsch: Faust Song of the Sun

Documentary

BBC, Great Britain - Steven Rajam: Tim Key and Gogol's Overcoat

Short Form

RTR – RADIO RUSSIA - Dmitry Nikolaev: 26 centuries of the Fox and the Crow

2012

Drama

RTR – RADIO RUSSIA - Brian Friel: The Yalta Game, directed by Dmitriy Nikolaev

Documentary

ROCKETHOUSE PRODUCTIONS, Great Britain - Cathy FitzGerald - Matt Thompson: Dreaming Dickens

Short Form

HRT - CROATIAN RADIO AND TELEVISION - Stephanie Jamnicky - Zoran Sajko: Glagoljon

2011

Drama

DEUTSCHLANDFUNK, Germany - Gesine Schmidt: Liebesrap, directed by Jean-Claude Kuner

Documentary

THIRD EAR, Denmark - Tim Hinman: Garden

Short Form

ARTWORKS, Serbia - Snežana Ristić - Radonja Leposavić: Optimism

2010

Drama

SWEDISH RADIO - Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment, directed by Mattias Andersson

Documentary

AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMPANY - Jane Ulmann - Russell Stapleton: The Devil in Music

&

THIRD EAR, Denmark - Krister Molzen - Tim Hinman - Pejk Malinovski: The Golden Horn and the stupidest Theft of the Century

Short Form

AGRFT, Slovenia - William Shakespeare: Hamlet, directed by Matjaž Farič

2009

Drama

CZECH RADIO - Georg Büchner: Woyzeck, directed by Aleš Vrzák

Documentary

BATTERY RADIO, Canada - Chris Brookes - Paolo Pietropaolo - Alan Hall: Hark! – the acoustic world of Elizabethan England

Short Form

BAYERISCHER RUNDFUNK, Germany - Jens Jarisch: Hong Kong Song

2008

Drama

ERT.SA., Greece - Kostas Kanavouris - Maro Karayiannopoulous: Medea doesn't have Nightmares

Documentary

AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMPANY - Natalie Kestecher: Double Life

2007

Drama

RADIO ROMANIA - Saviana Stanescu - Toma Enache: Bucharest Underground, directed by Toma Enache

Documentary

BBC, Great Britain - Tim Jackson: In Form: Variations

2006

Drama

BBC, Great Britain - Caroline and David Stafford: The True and Inspirational Life of St.Nicholas, directed by Marc Beeby

Documentary

BATTERY RADIO, Canada - Chris Brookes: Running the Goat

&

DEUTSCHLANDRADIO KULTUR, SWR, WDR, Germany - Jean-Claude Kuner - Andree Maggraf: Extraordinary. Stille. Ce soir

2005

Drama

DEUTSCHLANDRADIO, Berlin - Friedrich Durenmatt: Minotaur, directed by Beate Andres

Documentary

BATTERY RADIO for RTE - Chris Brookes: The Promised Land of the Saints

2004

Drama

RADIO DENMARK - Jens Blendstrup: Germand the Merry Swain, directed by Malene Kirkegaard Nielsen

Documentary

ABC – LISTENING ROOM, Australia - Jane Ulman - Russell Stapleton: In Studio, Dreaming Transportation

2003

Drama

DEUTSCHLANDRADIO BERLIN - Cathy Milliken - William Shakespeare: New Looks, directed by Goetz Naleppa

Documentary

AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMPANY - Tony Barrell: What Tokyo

&

RTE RADIO 1, Ireland - Michael O'Kane: Fadin Echoes 

2002

Drama

POLISH RADIO WARSZAWA - Everyman by anonymous author, directed by Wojciech Markiewicz

Documentary

SFB/ORB, Germany - David Zane Mairowitz - Nicole Marmet: The Faces of Jeanne D'arc, directed by David Zane Mairowitz

2001

Drama

HRT - CROATIAN RADIO AND TELEVISION - Hrvoje Ivanković: The Poor Woman From Lopud, directed by Biserka Vučković

Documentary

RADIO LUBLIN, Poland - Malgorzata Sawicka: Book of Criminals, directed by Wojciech Markiewicz

2000

DEUTSCHLANDRADIO BERLIN – SF BERLIN - Helma Sanders-Brahms: A Thousand and One Nights, directed by Robert Matejka

1999

DEUTSCHLANDRADIO BERLIN - Christian Calon: The Ulysses Project

1998

BULGARIAN NATIONAL RADIO

Apocrypha, directed by Margarita Mladenova and Ivan Dobtchev

1997 

RTV BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Đorđe Malić - Mirsad Tukić: Ljubovnici