Season 74 • Episode 1
LatestOn November 13, 2025, the time has come once again: the BAMBI, Germany’s most prestigious media award, will be presented for the 77th time – to people who shape our times. People who inspire hope, give courage, and enrich and advance our society through their creativity, dedication, and humanity.
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
Production
Porcelain trophies until 1958 — fragile egos, fragile fawns.
Costume
74 years of evolving German formalwear. Suffering.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Bambi predates the Golden Globes by one year and the Emmys by six — Germany was doing celebrity worship before it was cool.
Named after a Jewish author's novel, the award survived Nazi Germany, East Germany, and reunification — this fawn has seen some things.
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