Radio & Podcast Drama Jury

 

 

• Austria ORF – Elisabeth Weilenmann, Editor, Director
  Elisabeth Weilenmann has worked for over 20 years across the German-speaking region as an author, director, and journalist. She has written and directed more than 40 radio plays and more than 20 radio documentaries, created Germany's first "audio game" in collaboration with DLF and HTW, won international awards, and teaches at several universities. Since 2024, she is working as an editor, author, director and producer at the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF.
• France ARTE FRANCE – Perrine Kervran, Chief Editor
  Perrine Kervran studied history, art history and cultural management. She was a freelancer for RFI and France Culture. She produced her first documentaries for Les nuits magnetiques and Les Carnets Nomades and collaborated for 15 years as a documentarist, columnist and host at La Fabrique de l'Histoire. After that, still for France Culture, she was chief editor of LSD la série Documentaire for 7 years. Since August 2023, she has been the editorial head of ARTE Radio.
• Germany ARD – Elena Zieser, Audio Artist and Producer
  Elena Zieser is a Berlin-based audio artist, producer, and educator. A graduate of Bauhaus University Weimar, she creates works that blend documentary recordings, interviews, fiction, and sound art. Her award-winning projects have been presented internationally and broadcast across Europe, the United States, and Australia. Alongside her artistic practice, she works as a producer for Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Germany.
• Italy RAI – Lorenzo Pavolini, Programmer, Director
  Lorenzo Pavolini has published several novels, including Accanto alla tigre (2010), shortlisted for the Strega Prize and awarded the Mondello International Prize. Since 1998, he has worked at Rai Radio3, curating and hosting novel readings, live evening shows, radio drama series, and audio documentaries for the programs Ad alta voce, Wikiradio, Pantheon, Il teatro di Radio3, and Zazà. His radio documentary Ninnananna di Natale won the URTI Prize in 2003.
• Switzerland SRG SSR – Wolfram Höll, Author, Producer
  Wolfram Höll was born in Leipzig in 1986 and lives there and near Biel/Bienne. He studied creative writing at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel and theatre at the Bern University of the Arts. Wolfram Höll is a freelance writer, as well as a radio drama director and dramaturg at Swiss Radio and Television (SRF). Three of his plays have been nominated for the Mülheim Playwright Prize; he has won it twice. Höll is the host of the SRF Krimi podcast and the producer of the Grauen podcast.
• Türkiye TRT – Ali Fuat Gulmez, TRT Istanbul Radio Manager
  Ali Fuat Gulmez worked at TRT (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation) as a producer and presenter in the radio field from 1990 to 2019. For many years, his program "Gecenin Içinden" (From the Heart of the Night), which he prepared and presented, along with his news programs, was awarded best program of the year. Since 2019, he has been working as the Director of TRT Istanbul Radio.
• United Kingdom BBC – Alison Hindell, Radio 4 Commissioning Editor, Drama and Fiction
  Alison Hindell, Commissioning Editor, Drama and Fiction, BBC Radio 4, is responsible for all BBC drama commissions, as well as The Archers, the world's oldest soap opera. She created and leads Limelight, the BBC's globally successful podcast drama strand. She has worked in audio drama for most of her career, directing over 270 audio plays. As Head of BBC Audio Drama she led one of the biggest audio drama production departments in the world. She chaired the EBU Radio Drama group from 2014-2022.