1st Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear awards: The following prizes were awarded by the Jury: 1st Berlin International Film Festival The 1st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 6 to 17 June 1951. The opening film was Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca". At this very first Berlin Festival, the Golden Bear award was introduced, and it was awarded to the best film in each of five categories: drama, comedy, crime or adventure, music film, and documentary. This system disappeared already the following year, partly because films that year were voted on by the audience. The following people were announced as being on the jury
Berlin International Literature Festival Berlin International Literature Festival The Berlin International Literature Festival () or "ilb" is an annual event based in Berlin. It was founded in 2001 by engineer and cultural manager Ulrich Schreiber, who also serves as the festival's director. The 15th festival was held 9–19 September 2015. The festival's focus is on contemporary developments in prose and poetry from all around the world which are reflected in its subsections "Literatures of the World", "Reflections", "Speak, Memory", "Specials" and "International Children’s and Young Adult Literature". The section "Specials" itself is subdivided into the New German Voices, the Slam Revue as well as