Expert Judges nominate 24 Applicants for the European Cultural Brand Award 2018, among them

BERLIN - Oct. 2, 2018 - PRLog -- The shortlist for the European Cultural Brand Award 2018 is complete. Under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheytt, President of the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft e.V. (Cultural-political Association), a panel of 39 expert judges chose 24 nominees from the 99 submissions for the 13^thEuropean Cultural Brand Award representing the fields of culture, business and media, on September 27th. The award ceremony will be hosted within the Cultural Brands Gala "Night of Cultural Brands" on November 12th 2018 at the Radialsystem in Berlin. A total of 500 guests from the worlds of business, culture, politics and media have been invited to attend. Prizes will be awarded for the best marketing strategies deployed by cultural providers, for the most creative culture sponsoring investments into culture, the most innovative education programs and the most dedicated culture managers of the year. www.cultural-brands.com

The judges nominated the following candidates:

For the prize European Cultural Brand of the Year 2018 the panel nominated jazzahead! – MESSE BREMEN M3B GmbH, the State Arte Collections Dresden and the UNESCO-World Heritage Zollverein.

The following have a chance to be recognized as the European Trend Brand of the Year 2018: #letsmuseeum, Faust-Festival Munich as well as the Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig GmbH.

The potential winners of the award European Cultural Manager of the Year 2018 are Amelie Deufelhard (director Kampnagel in Hamburg), Barrie Kosky (director Komische Oper Berlin) and Shermin Langhoff (director Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin).

The judges' nominations for the category European Cultural Investor of the Year 2018 went to the AVL Cultural Foundation GmbH, the Erste Group Bank AG with their MehrWERT Sponsoring programme and the BMW Group.

Their nominations in the category European Education Program of the Year 2018 will give these

organizations a reason to celebrate: enviaM – Musik aus Kommunen ("Music from Municipalities"), the MUTIK gGmbH as well als the State Museum Schwerin with "Neue Wege zur Kunst" ("New ways to Art").

Tourismus Marketing GmbH Baden-Württemberg, the capital of Albania Tirana and the Trier Tourismus and Marketing GmbH received nominations for the European Cultural Tourism Region of the Year 2018.

The following are in the finals for the award offered for the German speaking parts of Europe – the Prize for Urban Culture:. Bielefeld Marketing GmbH, the future workshop of the City Bremerhaven as well as the city Krefeld with the "Krefelder Perspektivwechsel" ("Krefeld's change of perspective").

Nominated in the new categoory „European Prize for Media Culture 2018" are crescendo, ikonoTV and JazzRadio Berlin.

During the "Night of Cultural Brands", the award winners in the respective categories will receive the AURICA, a 23 centimeter tall waxed bronze statute. AURICA is a Romanian girl's name, which stands for "The Golden One". The name is a combination of everything humankind covets so much: Aura, aurum and eureka. Moreover, the sculpture is a symbol for the excellence, attractiveness and diversity of the european culture market and a synonym for the valuable communications work of european cultural providers as well as the outstanding commitment of the sponsors in the european culture. The European Cultural Brand Award receives funding from 53 business partners, including premium partners ARTE Magazin, Bayer Kultur, Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie, Deutsche Welle, HORIZONT, Kulturplakatierung and Radialsystem. Funding for the AURICAs is provided by Securitas AB.

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