Die Wannseekonferenz, international title The Conference, is a German TV docudrama, first aired January 24, 2022 by the ZDF broadcaster, about the Wannsee Conference held in Berlin-Wannsee in 1942 to organise the extermination of the Jews.
Background Director Matti Geschonneck shows a reenactment of the real Wannsee Conference held January 20, 1942, based on a script by Magnus Vattrodt. German Nazi officials meet amidst the Second World War to determine the so-called “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”. It is not the beginning of the Shoah but it is a meeting to coordinate various government branches for carrying out the destruction of Jews.Peter Kümmel: Unter Verbrechern (Amongst Perpetrators). In: Die Zeit. 20 January 2022. Feuilleton.Wolfgang Höbel: Die Brillanz des Bösen. (The Brilliance of Evil) Der Spiegel #3/2022. 15 January 2022, pp 120–121: A nearly "normal" meeting of bureaucrats for optimising of the mass murder (transl.)
Cast
Philipp Hochmair as Reinhard Heydrich, Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) Johannes Allmayer as Adolf Eichmann, Head of RSHA IV B4 Sascha Nathan as Dr. Josef Bühler Arnd Klawitter as Dr. Roland Freisler, for the Reich Ministry of Justice Markus Schleinzer as Otto Hofmann Fabian Busch as Dr. Gerhard Klopfer Thomas Loibl as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger Frederic Linkemann as Dr. Rudolf Lange Rafael Stachowiak as Georg Leibbrandt Simon Schwarz as Martin Luther Peter Jordan as Dr. Alfred Meyer Jakob Diehl as Heinrich Müller, Chief of RSHA Department IV (the Gestapo) Matthias Bundschuh as Erich Neumann Maximilian Brückner as Dr. Eberhard Schöngarth Godehard Giese as Wilhelm Stuckart, for the Reich Ministry for the Interior Lilli Fichtner as Ingeburg Werlemann Frederik Schmid as Eichmann's adjutant
Reception
Critical response
Awards and nominations German Television Award
2022: Best Film Made for Television 2022: Best Writing Fiction – Paul Mommertz and Magnus Vattrodt 2022: Best Actor – Philipp Hochmair (Nominee) 2022: Best Directing Fiction – Matti Geschonneck (Nominee)
Grimme Award 2023: Fiction
Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival
2022: Best Film
Civis Media Prize
2022: Entertainment (Civis Video Award)
New York Festivals TV & Film Awards
2022: Feature Films (Gold Award)
Romy
2022: Favorite Actor – Philipp Hochmair (Reinhard Heydrich) 2022: Best Film TV/Stream – Friederich Oetker and Reinhold Elschot 2022: Best Writing TV/Stream – Magnus Vattrodt and Paul Mommertz Prix Europa
2022: Best European TV Film
Günter-Rohrbach-Filmpreis
2022: Best Film
Fernsehfilmfestival Baden-Baden 2022: 3sat-Publikumspreis (Audience Award)
See also Heinz Schirk (director): The Wannsee Conference, a 1984 German TV film Conspiracy – a 2001 English language film Fatherland – an alternate history novel dealing in large part with the Wannsee Conference - 1992 List of Holocaust films
References
External links Die Wannseekonferenz Press release in the Press portal of the ZDF Die Wannseekonferenz (2022, en The Wannsee Conference)
Catalogue, exhibition - The Meeting at Wannsee and the Murder of the European Jews