This are the HELGA! Winners 2022:

The independent HELGA! Festival Award honors the best German Festivals in annually changing categories. The HELGA! Festival Award is the first and only award for music festivals in Germany and is organized by Reeperbahn Festival in cooperation with LiveKomm and Höme – Für Festivals. We are happy to announce the winners in the following categories:  

• Nicest Togetherness: Skandaløs Festival 
• Cosiest Craft: Orange Blossom Special 
• Greenest Meadow: Futur 2 Festival
• Most Mixed Bag: SNNTG Festival 
• Finest Booking: lunatic Festival 
• Best Festival (Public Voting): Open Flair 

 

The winners of the 10th VIA Awards announced 

Seven artists, music entrepreneurs and projects were honoured at the tenth VIA (VUT Indie Awards) at Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg. With these awards, the Association of Independent (VUT) honours outstanding talents based on quality, novelty and independent of commercial success, novelty and independent of commercial success. 

The winners are:  

Best Newcomer: Nashi44
Best Act: Perera Elsewhere
Best Album: Sophia Kennedy – „Monsters“
Best Label: Bureau B
Best Experiment: Messer – „Avatar-Konzert“
Best New Music Business: Black Artist Database
VIA Special Award: Musiker ohne Grenzen e.V.
 

IMJA Winners 2022  

This year the Reeperbahn Festival has awarded the International Music Journalism Award for the 6th time. We are happy to announce the winners:   

Music Journalist Of The Year – Deutsch: Joachim Hentschel
Music Journalist Of The Year – English: Kaitlyn Tiffany
Best Work Of Music Journalism - Text  Deutsch: Annett Scheffel
Best Work Of Music Journalism - Text English: Hashino Yukinori
Best Work Of Music Journalism - Audio Deutsch: Azade Pesmen
Best Work Of Music Journalism - Audio English: Danyel Smith
Best Work Of Music Journalism - Multimedia Deutsch: Mariska Lief, Wero Jägersberg
Best Work Of Music Journalism - Multimedia English: Arthur Buckner, Linda Diaz
Best Work Of Music Journalism - U-30 Deutsch: Alex Barbian, Steven Meyer, Walerija Petrowa