The three lucky Ake Blomstrom Award 2019 winners are:
(left to right)
Vivien Schütz – Germany
Marta Medvesek – Croatia
Claudia Gschweitl – Austria
Vivien Schütz – Germany
Marta Medvesek – Croatia
Claudia Gschweitl – Austria
Coordinator training – Edwin Brys, Belgium
Chairwoman ABA – Gabriela Hermer (RBB- Germany)
Åke Blomström, Head of Features of Sveriges Radio, was born in December 1931 and died abruptly (age 54 years) on 31 May 1985 (kidney failure). As a man of reputation in SR (Swedish Press: “Radio Personality of the Year”) as well as internationally respected and loved he got a great funeral ceremony. At the end of the ceremony and still on the graveyard the SR Director of Radio and I agreed to establish an Åke Blomström Memorial Prize.