Jury #1
DOC Award
Comedy
Roland Silbernagl
Roland Silbernagl, who was born in Innsbruck in 1971, where he also received his acting training, has appeared as a character actor in many film and television productions. From Netflix to ARD to ORF and ZDF.
He was awarded best actor for his role in the medium-length film Zingerle.
Roland Silbernagl has worked and continues to work not only as an actor, but also as a director and festival founder and director. In 2004 he founded the theater festival stummer schrei, where he was artistic director and chairman of the association until 2012.
His artistic career has taken him from the Mainz State Theater to the Bonn Theater and guest appearances at the Hamburg Theater, Cologne, the Varna Theater and the Goethe Institute in Santiago de Chile.
He draws his strength from creativity and his artistic talent. Since 2019 he has been a creative part of the acting agency Rama Geissler Management and since 2025 Roland Silbernagl has been directing and initiating the short film festival Cine Bonn Bleu, which will take place for the first time in November 2025.
From April 2025 Roland Silbernagl can currently be seen on Netflix/ORF in the 2nd season of Totenfrau alongside Anna Maria Mühe.
Laura Cuenca Serrano
Laura Cuenca Serrano was born in Bielefeld in 1987 into a German-Spanish family. While the existence of her hometown is still being discussed on the Internet, she works as an actress, author and musician. After studying German and film studies in Munich, she deepened her acting training in Los Angeles and took part in various award-winning theater, cinema and TV productions, including Replace (2017, Sparkling Pictures) and 4 Blocks (2018, TNT series). In addition to acting, she is active as a musician and won the BR Newcomer Competition in 2018 with her band Saltyskin. Since 2020 she has been working more as an author and is involved in voluntary cultural work with children and young people.
Katharina Schulz
Katharina Schulz studied modern German literature at the LMU Munich and completed the supplementary course in “Theater, Film and Television Criticism” at the August Everding Theater Academy in cooperation with the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). For many years she has worked voluntarily for the Bavarian School Film Days and for the International Film Weekend Würzburg, where she currently heads the program group and is a board member.
